November 2021

Holiday Candles are Arriving

The holiday candles are arriving and it's getting hard for even those of us who aren't yet ready to let go of Halloween to snub our noses at an early Christmas. These days, we'll take the magic when we can get it, and those smells sure do bring on the holidays for many of us. I'm not about to break out the Mariah Carey just yet, but that peppermint marshmallow sure does have me thinking about it!

Russia Sent A Film Crew To The International Space Station To Shoot A Commercial Movie

     A Russian actress and a Russian director arrived at the International Space Station on Tuesday. They are starting a twelve-day mission to make the first commercial movie in orbit. The Russia crew is set to beat a Hollywood project announced last year by Tom Cruise, NASA and SpaceX. Actress Ylia Peresild, 37, and film director Shipenko, 38, took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

Nuclear Reactors 968 - McClean Lake Joint Venture Tested Their New Surface Access Borehole Resource Extraction Mining Methods

     A five-year test program of the patented Surface Access Borehole Resource Extraction (SABRE) has just been completed by Denison Mines Corporation and Orano Canada Inc. The SABRE is an innovative mining method that could be used to access high-grade ore bodies that are either too small or too deep to be mined economically using conventional methods.

Radioactive Waste 828 - The State Of New Mexico Is Battling the U. S. Department Of Energy Over Waste Shipments to The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant From the Los Alamos National Laboratory - Part 2 of 2 Parts

Part 2 of 2 Parts (Please read Part 1 first)
     Commissioner Hughes told an interviewer with respect to state inspection of radioactive materials shipments “That’s maybe a little bit reassuring that the state has a little bit of control there. If the shipments are limited to not much more than we have now, then I guess the chance of accidents would not be a whole lot more, either.”

Nuclear Weapons 755 - Problems With Rebuilding The Los Alamos National Laboratory Plutonium Pit Facility

      The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) is an independent safety board. In a recent report, the DNFSB raised serious concerns about the lack of training of LANL workers to properly handle nuclear materials.

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