Although the 2024 general election is still more than one year away, I have already made up my mind: anybody but Joe Biden!
Here is the reason: The war in Ukraine poses an existential threat to mankind, as it may result in World War III, thus destroying us all as a species. President Biden could have prevented that war from breaking out but chose not to. Moreover, he can stop the war any time now but has yet to do so.
*Stock data, cryptocurrency, and commodity prices at the market closing.
Today’s Economic Releases Compiled by Steven Hansen, Publisher:
No economic releases today
Here is a summary of headlines we are reading today:
Click on the “Read More” below to access these, other headlines, and the associated news summaries moving the markets today.
Short Range Forecast Discussion
NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD
Tue Sep 05 2023Valid 12Z Tue Sep 05 2023 – 12Z Thu Sep 07 2023
…There is a Slight Risk of severe thunderstorms over parts of the Upper
Mississippi Valley/Upper Great Lakes on Tuesday……There are Heat Advisories over parts of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic
on Tuesday...…Air Quality Alerts over parts of the Northern High Plains on Tuesday…
The stock markets are closed today for Labor Day but there is still news. Click on the “Read More” below to read all the headlines we are following today.
Today’s Economic Releases Compiled by Steven Hansen, Publisher:
No economic releases today
Here is a summary of headlines we are reading today:
Click on the “Read More” below to access these, other headlines, and the associated news summaries moving the markets today.
Short Range Forecast Discussion
NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD
Mon Sep 04 2023Valid 12Z Mon Sep 04 2023 – 12Z Wed Sep 06 2023
…There is a Slight Risk of excessive rainfall over the parts of the
Northern Rockies/Northern High Plains on Monday……There is a Slight Risk of severe thunderstorms over parts of the
Northern/Central High Plains……There are Heat Advisories over parts of the Upper Mississippi Valley
and Northeast on Monday…
Short Range Forecast Discussion
NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD
Sun Sep 03 2023
Valid 12Z Sun Sep 03 2023 – 12Z Tue Sep 05 2023…There is a Slight Risk of excessive rainfall over the parts of the
Great Basin/Northern Intermountain Region on Sunday and Northern Rockies
on Monday……There are Heat Advisories over parts of the Northern/Central Plains and
Upper Mississippi Valley on Sunday……Upper-level ridging will build over the Great Lakes/Ohio Valley…
In this article, I present the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit decision in case No. 21-60743 relating to the rejection of a license to store spent nuclear power plant rods from out of state in a facility in Texas.
It is a long decision as court decisions usually are. It may be a strange way to introduce the enormous topic of the storage of nuclear waste. There are two main types of nuclear waste:
A. Related to Nuclear Weapons
B. Related to Nuclear Fission Energy Plants (this case is related to this category of nuclear waste but the two topics are very intertwined)
There are other minor categories including medical.
The common characteristic in all categories of nuclear waste is generally no one wants to store it. There are many reasons for that. Some are obvious. By no one, I mean no states. Some communities see the storage of nuclear waste as an economic development opportunity.
I am reporting on this decision mostly because it is recent and addresses the state’s rights aspects of the problem. If you read the decision carefully, you will glean additional information.
I will summarize some of that at the end of the article.
I know that court decisions are boring but this topic is very important. Some of the environmental issues were touched in this decision but the issue of the transport of nuclear waste and the risk this creates was only hinted at.
This is a large problem for the U.S. and many other nations and I have had difficulty addressing it because of all the complications and the large amount of information that is important to understand. In this case, the focus was on legal issues so it was perhaps a good way to introduce the topic. The legal issues are extremely important but the technical issues are also extremely important. I will be getting into those in future articles and I plan to write a number of articles on this topic because of its importance.
At the end of the article, there is an opportunity to submit comments and I encourage readers to do so. It is usually better to submit a comment that way than to me directly because more people will see the comment and responses by me and others to the comment will also be seen by others. So it stimulates discussion. Please feel free to send this article to anyone who you think will benefit from reading it.
Short Range Forecast Discussion
NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD
Sat Sep 02 2023Valid 12Z Sat Sep 02 2023 – 12Z Mon Sep 04 2023
…There is a Slight Risk of excessive rainfall over the parts of the
Southwest/Great Basin on Saturday and Great Basin/Northern Intermountain
Region on Sunday……There is an Elevated Risk of fire weather over parts of the Central
Plains on Saturday, extending into Upper Mississippi Valley on Sunday…
My forthcoming book “Dancing Queens & Kings” is calling for participation (Dancing Queens & Kings: Call for Participation (4)). The book is to promote pro/am ballroom dancing by highlighting amateurs, with their teachers (aka “pro partners”) being the secondary beneficiaries. One of the secondary beneficiaries is Slawek Sochacki.
