How nuts can this get? It’s possible we’ll see, it is a war, after all. Here I sit, finishing up nuclear waste comments to the PUC, and I see this. WTAF?

Ukraine updates – USA Today

Video Footage: Nuclear Power Plant Under Attack, Ukrainian Officials Say

6 nuclear reactors, 985MW each, all lined up in a row.

http://Russia-Ukraine live: Zaporizhzhia power plant on fire, mayor says

Zelenskiy accuses Russia of ‘nuclear terrorism’, repeating Chernobyl

Here’s the Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement:

Draft-SEIS-Notice-Prairie-Island-2.1.22

Draft-SEIS – Download

Xcel Energy still refuses to disclose the dry casks it wants to use, and yes, they probably won’t order them until there’s a permit to do it, but when Orano folks show up at the Dept. of Commerce-EERA meeting, both Roger Maggi, the Chief Communications Officer, and their Chief Engineer, Jack Beshoin (?) of recently NRC licensed “Interim Storage Partners, LSP” in Texas, odds are pretty good it’s a Orano/TN product, eh?

Here are docs from the NRC on the Texas licensing, note that the Texas license does NOT include use of TN-40 or TN-40HT casks, AND another FYI, Texas has pass law to disallow this “interim” storage:

Interim Storage Partners, Issuance of Materials License SNM-2515, WCS Consolidated Interim Storage Facility ISFSI

Accession Number: ML21188A096

Date Released: Monday, September 13, 2021

• ML21188A097 – Transmittal Letter, Interim Storage Partners, Issuance of Materials License SNM-2515, WCS Consolidated Interim Storage Facility ISFSI (3 page(s), 9/13/2021)
• ML21188A098 – License Preamble, Interim Storage Partners, Issuance of Materials License SNM-2515, WCS Consolidated Interim Storage Facility ISFSI (3 page(s), 9/13/2021)
• ML21188A099 – Materials License SNM-2515, Interim Storage Partners, WCS Consolidated Interim Storage Facility ISFSI (3 page(s), 9/13/2021)
• ML21188A100 – Technical Specifications, Interim Storage Partners, Materials License SNM-2515, WCS Consolidated Interim Storage Facility ISFSI (38 page(s), 9/13/2021)
• ML21188A101 – Public Final Safety Evaluation Report, Interim Storage Partners, Materials License SNM-2515, WCS Consolidated Interim Storage Facility ISFSI (36 page(s), 9/13/2021)
• ML21222A214 – Record of Decision Interim Storage Partners LLC License Application for a Consolidated Interim Storage Facility, Andrews County, Texas (6 page(s), 9/13/2021)
• ML21193A097 – Federal Register Notice for WCS Consolidated Interim Storage Facility Record of Decision and Issuance of Part 72 Materials License SNM-2515 (7 page(s), 9/13/2021)

OK, back to work!

This is just too good – John C. Eastman gets roasted, and repeatedly they say the Select Committee has good-faith reason to believe that Trump and Company committed various crimes, LIKE WOW! By the time you get 1/2 way through this you’ll be snortin’ and hootin’ and hollerin’ — I’ve been waiting so long to start seeing these assertions!

YES!!

CONGRESSIONAL DEFENDANTS’ BRIEF IN OPPOSITION TO PLAINTIFF’S PRIVILEGE ASSERTIONS

Over nine years, and how many of those years going to St. Paul for meetings, how many hours of editing and commenting, of group meetings to go over changes, proposed suggestions, meaningful public participation…

Well, here’s the Minnesota Public FUtilities Commission in action:

When will we ever learn?

It seems to me that a lot of this, the timing and the target, is due to the corruption of our former ASSet-in-Chief, who was bought by Putin and Russian money. Sanctions will bring some of the corruption into the open. Some of this I knew a while ago, but putting some, and not nearly all, of the details together is stunning.

How is it that someone so corrupt isn’t serving decades in jail? How could someone so corrupt run for President, much less be elected?

From House of Trump House of Putin, does this sound familiar:

How do we get back to media that reports facts, where spin is clearly labeled as such, where critical thinking is taught and practiced, and where liars are called out and held accountable? My time at KFAI taught me that truth needs to be pushed on people, we won’t just find it passively, ah, yes, days of “We Want You To Know,” and fighting a battle against MPR’s money and power for air space. This entire country needs an intervention, STAT. May that’s what Putin is giving us?

Trump was soliciting Russian attention, and more importantly, money, for decades. His Atlantic City casino was nailed with the largest fine in NJ for money-laundering (but a mere $450k or so), and that was decades ago, and millions and millions ago. He courted Russian money, and was severely compromised in the process. How is it that he was not arrested and jailed decades ago?

It’s not plausible that Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is not connected to the change in administration here. I really want to see all the dots and how they connect.