uranium munitions are, are very solid, very dense munitions, and so they're sometimes referred to as tank busters. so uranium is the heaviest element on a periodic table, at least in nature, are artificial elements like um, beyond trans your and comments that may be denser and uranium. but it can provide a real powerful punch in, in the form of the emissions used against tanks or other armor vehicles. where the problem begins, is that uranium itself in nature is radioactive. it's a toxic heavy metal. it's actually a hormone disruptor. and because the united states and britain and russia and other countries have nuclear power programs and uranium enrichment processes, there are mountains of depleted uranium. this is uranium waste that comes out of enrichment facilities. fuel comes out, that's the product,

but the by product is depleted uranium and now what to do with that it's a waste product. so a small fraction gets turned into these military, munitions. and unfortunately, they've been used by the americans and the british in places like a rock in both the 1991 war and the 2003 war they were used in kosovo. they're used at military bases and places like michigan where i'm from protesting or at the jefferson proving grounds in ohio and indiana. it's in madison, indiana, which is left behind a multi $1000000000.00 clean up bill because of the plate depleted uranium testing that's taking place there. it's been used in puerto rico and it's toxic, it's radioactive, and it disrupts hormone. so it can do tremendous health damage, especially when it gets a tank and then disperses as a very find us that can travel with the wind. it can be inhaled, it can be adjusted through drinking water on the food supply. and uranium is

a nasty element in nature with lots of radioactive decay products like radium, that is especially harmful to humans and other living things. so to be using it as an explosive, as a condition and warfare is just exacerbating all of these risks. so no matter what anyone thinks or where they stand on this whole russia, ukraine issue, the drums of war are beating louder and louder. that what many have described as a proxy war between the us and russia can easily become a direct hot war, which would then lead to world war 3. how worried are you that nukes could come into play once again, like her russian law or not a saki, especially given that the tuesday clock is now at 90 seconds to midnight? well certainly there seems to be increase then increasing risk of the use of

nuclear weaponry. there's certainly nuclear saber rattling, going on statements that post and has made. as i mentioned, there are us nuclear weapons already deployed in several european countries as a colleague of mine, john before just knew much in wisconsin, was arrested in germany, not for the 1st time. spent time in german jail for his arrest. there are americans protesting that appointment of us nuclear weapons in europe, which has gone on for decades and put and actually cited it as a justification or read applying nuclear weapons after decades back to dollars. so there is a lot of hypocrisy us where weapon should come out of the europe. russian nuclear weapons should not be re deployed to the border of countries like poland than what the when yeah and lafayette, sonia. but i would like to add another element of the current war between ukraine and russia. that is very alarming, is the threat to nuclear power plants and ukraine. so this operation,

nuclear power plant and southern ukraine is the closest at the present time to the front lines and don't take it from me, take it from the director of the international atomic energy agency. grossi was wanted repeatedly for many months that has made a couple of trips. there is operation, including recently, he pointed out that is upper region, nuclear power plant has lost its connection to the electric grid some 7 times in the past several months. which means that it is thrown onto emergency diesel generators to provide cooling to the reactor corps to dispatch the cleaner fuel storage pool. ready was this is a very dicey situation. so if cooling is less the reactor course and there are 2 of them that are still in hot shut down as it's called, which means they're not completely turned off. you could very quickly get into a fuel damage or even a fuel melting situation. and in addition,

the pools that store decades worth of high level radioactive waste, because there are 6 reactors as operations, one of the biggest nuclear power plants in the world, the biggest in europe. you have 6 pools of water holding decades worth of high level radioactive waste and there's they lose cooling for long enough. they to, to go up in flames. so on, this would not be turn all this could be worse than channel because you have so many reactors and so much high level radioactive waste on that site. and we've seen from turnover just how bad that can be. only it could be worse here. and that's just lot loss of coolant. what if there were to be direct strikes during military combat? they're already banned explosions on the site. damage to the facility. luckily there haven't been radioactive releases, but it's really banned by lots because high level waste storage has been hit by selling. so that's one to keep an eye on other nuclear power plants in, in ukraine. i've also been implicated chernobyl itself in the early days of the war,

but other plans have had fighting happening nearby. so it's really, um, again, it's the i a e, a whose mandate is to promote nuclear power and supposedly regulated safety. but they do a lot of promotions and very little regulation. they're raising the alarms as to how serious the situation is. it is very serious. all right, let's switch gears a little bit here from nuclear weapons to nuclear power. i had of christmas 2022 scientists at the lawrence livermore national lab made history by successfully producing a nuclear fusion reaction that resulted in what they called a net energy gain that us officials allotted as a quote of landmark achievement. quote, a milestone of the future of clean energy. how do you respond to that? what's the difference between this and standard nuclear reactors or when people say that nuclear energy is the closest thing to totally carbon free?

or it's the cleanest form of energy we can produce. we're very skeptical. um the difference between vision and fusion is that in vision uranium, adams or plutonium adams are being split. and the splitting of those adams gets off electricity that can be turned into, i'm sorry, gives off energy that can be turned into electricity through boiling water, turning turbo generators and steam. but of course you have high level radioactive waste. that's what those split atoms are. as high level radioactive waste, artificial elements that did not exist in nature and have hazardous aspects to put it mildly. what fusion is nuclear fusion is the fusing together of hydrogen atoms to forms, helium, adams. and in that, in that fusing again, vast amounts of energy release that can be turned into electricity. but an aspect of fusion that doesn't get talked about very much,

does that actually radioactive waste is generated? it may not be the same as that generated by vision. but it's significant, so one form of radioactive waste generated by fusion is tritium. we talked about it earlier in terms of the super she, my diet, g, radioactive waste, water, which is full of astronomical amounts of radioactive hydrogen, which is trillion. and so there would be significant generation of tritium by fusion that would have to be dealt with. then again, the tritium has a 123 year half life. unfortunately, the way that the nuclear vision industry deals with tritium is to pretend like it's not hazardous, but it is hazardous, it can cause cancer, it can cause genetic damage. it can cost birth effects because they often just allow it to be released into the apartment. because they don't know how to filter it economically, and they're not willing to store it for a 123 years. so we could expect similar behavior with fusion pollution like trudy

and just being released into the environment. an enormous quantity is doing damage to humans and other living organisms down when the down stream of the food chain down to generations. but also the entire facilities at a fusion reactor would become radio actually contaminated through radioactive activation of the substance is used to form the facility. so that would be after that would have to be dealt with. but perhaps the real non started with fusion is that it's still 30 years away. it was claimed to be 30 years away in 1950. and still 30 years away, only we have to keep spending incredible amounts of money to pursue it. we're talking not billions of dollars or tens or hundreds of billions, but if they were to go full scale with fusion, we're talking trillions of dollars. and it's just not ready for prime time. not even close. and the climate crisis worsens by the year. and by the decade, we don't have time to wait around for fusion to show up. we have the answers now

it's renewables and storage and efficiency. it's of course not fossil fuels. it's also not nuclear, neither vision nor fusion. so we need to quit wasting such a vast amounts of money. and the final thing i'll say is look where this fusion experiment success took place at the national mix at the national ignition facility at the lawrence livermore nuclear laboratory, which is a nuclear weapons facility, hash brown since the 1950s. and there are tremendous nuclear weapons proliferation aspects to fusion experimentation and development. so the nuclear weapons proliferation risks, the pollution risks, the astronomical expense, and the time it will take there all 9 starters for fusion. kevin caps from beyond new, clear. thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us. thanks very much for having me. so as you just heard nuclear experts around the world are sounding

the alarms when it comes to the threat of nuclear war. while some describe the i c relations between the us and russia as the new cold war. everyday people around the world worry this could lead to the next direct hot war which could end life on the planet as we know it. the dangerous game of chicken and gone by america's military industrial complex. and the states desire to maintain unipolar, had gemini forces, the abandonment of diplomacy, and puts all of us at risk. that's going to do it for this episode. modus operandi the show that dig deep into foreign policy and current affairs, i'm your host may know a chance. thanks for tuning and we'll see you again. next time to figure out the m . o. the

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attempted to go on the offensive, but they were exposed by the forces of military intelligence in time, and were bombed by our aircraft at their starting positions. as soon as they reached the mine fields for enemy tanks were blown up by the mines, further or taylor, we suppress the enemy's rank from their firing positions and electronic warfare units or press the enemy's communication system. having suffered losses the enemy refused to advance further and would be. busy we have just returned from his