May 2023

Nuclear Weapons 817 - U.S. Is Working On Bunker Buster Bombs To Destroy Iranian Nuclear Facilities Buried Deep Under Mountains - Part 2 of 4 Parts

Part 2 of 4 Parts (Please read Part 1 first)
      Steven De La Fuente is a research associate at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. He said, “So the depth of the facility [in the mountain] is a concern because it would be much harder for us [the U.S., to penetrate]. It would be much harder to destroy using conventional weapons, such as like a typical bunker buster bomb.”

Nuclear Reactors 1226 - South Africa May Have To Carry Out Loadshedding This Winter

     Load shedding at a power plant involves shutting down parts of the electricity network in a controlled way to prevent the electrical system becoming unbalanced when there is not enough supply to meet demand. This is done to prevent a country-wide blackout. South African (S.A.) state utility Eskom provides for eight stages of loadshedding. Stage 1 sheds one thousand megawatts.

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