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Nuclear danger !

 https://newrepublic.com/post/210153/trump-threatens-nuke-iran-strikes-strait-blockade

Trump Threatens to "Nuke" Iran as He Tries to Break Blockade

"If there's no ceasefire, you'll see one big glow coming out of Iran. They better sign an agreement fast."

"Trump could be alluding to using nukes, or just talking big to try and intimidate Iran’s leadership. So far, though, Trump has not made any visible progress on ending the war, and the world economy continues to suffer as a result, with fuel prices staying high. Nuking Iran would only make things catastrophically worse."

Clean Core Thorium Energy news!

 

https://www.ans.org/news/2026-05-11/article-8019/clean-cores-fuel-test-complete-at-inls-atr/

Clean Core Thorium Energy has announced the completion of its nearly two-year ANEEL fuel irradiation testing and qualification campaign at Idaho National Laboratory.

The idea behind ANEEL (Advanced Nuclear Energy for Enriched Life) fuel is to provide existing pressurized heavy water reactors with a fuel option that has increased high-burnup performance without requiring any modification to the reactors.

DOE secretary said he is avoiding energy prices predictions

 The administration had previously said the increase in prices would be temporary and minimal.

Now, DOE secretary is saying "he is avoiding price predictions." 

Wow! Incompetence? fear of MAGA?

Any idea?

https://www.newsweek.com/energy-secretary-says-hes-avoiding-price-predictions-as-gas-prices-climb-11933777

Is this the end of LLNL and LANL scientists?

Undergraduate students have mostly already given up on learning. Graduate students (sometimes) still see the value in learning how to do things that ChatGPT can easily do. What will happen when it becomes clear that any research contribution that they can hope to make as a junior researcher can also easily be done by AI? There has been a lot of great discussion about where the real value of mathematics lies, how humans can best contribute in the future, and how the role of professionally trained mathematicians will have to evolve. However, unless the academic community can very quickly figure out how to offer young scientists a viable career path amid such rapid and far-reaching disruption, the human mathematical community will be on the path towards extinction. I am sure there are many people who think there is nothing wrong with that, but every other community that is based on human creativity will face similar existential threats. I am not excited about living in such a world.

Is it another pandemic?

 These are good articles on the latest viral outbreak -- going into some of the details. To be clear, it does not look like the start of a pandemic, so far, to informed observers

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15802895/Nightmare-cruise-rat-virus-horror.html

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-health/cruise-ship-center-hantavirus-outbreak-dock-spain-sunday

"The CDC has fewer staff to respond to the outbreak due to massive staffing cuts over the past year. The top US official responsible for public health on cruise ships has recently retired, according to an internal memo obtained by STAT.

Experts in infectious disease and public health have criticized the CDC’s relative silence on the outbreak, arguing that the US response so far suggests the country is ill-prepared to handle another major health crisis."

How does it feel?

 Hey Lab employees,

How does it feel to have a MAGA DOE secretary in charge? Check out this video. Fast Forward to 9'40".

This is unbelievable!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNjrhbVjqlw