Comments to Nuclear Regulatory Commission About Wyoming Nuclear Reactor

For  purposes (paper attached) I need to know: 

1. The annual metric weight of high level waste produced by each replica of this 345 MW plant;
2. The amount of water expected to be annually drawn from the Naughton Reservoir;
3. A description of plant’sthe load-following or load-balancing characteristics; and
4. Physical space required for one to five reactors. 

John B Driscoll
Candidate Montana U.S. House District 2
30 South Davis Street
Helena, MT 59601

https://johnbdriscoll.blogspot.com/2024/06/confronting-climate-change.html?m=1

The Trump-Vance Lash-Up

Don”t Take Any Wooden Nickels

“From what I’ve seen so far the two men play their real cards close to their chests and are pragmatic about what they say to Republicans and the rest of us. I’ve dealt with that kind of political chameleon before and feel comfortable facing them again. As the Jewish survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto recently told his fellow Israeli’s before dying, ‘Never underestimate the power of a lie.’ I have no illusions, none at all, about either of these men alone, or teamed.”

John B Driscoll

Our American Revolution’s Unanimous Declaration

In Congress, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

Former President Trump’s Close-Call

I’m impressed by the speed and quality of Secret Service response, given that so many are being deployed to protect threatened officials and personalities. I’m glad former President Trump is still alive to make his best effort to counter our American Revolution. No assassin‘s actions should replace the votes of well informed thoughtful citizens. John B Driscoll Candidate Montana U.S. House District 2

Artificial Intelligence I

This morning I accepted an invitation (on my limited budget) to speak at the Montana Broadband State Convention in Whitefish, August 20-21. Though outside of my district I see the venue as an opportunity to learn more about how people and companies (fiber optic broadband) plan at this stage to deploy Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). I’m learning and the curve seems steep. There are some references here. https://www.gatesnotes.com/The-Age-of-AI-Has-Begun

Young Men And Fire

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Bannon’s Fascist Worldview

At Mauthausen Concentration Camp, where he could easily have been a Commandant, everyone was motivated to act against everyone else. It got so bad that one inmate said: “Every act of human kindness was an act of resistance.” American Journalist Dorothy Thompson wrote in 1939 (Let the Record Speak) as the world slid into global war against fascism, “This it seems to me, is the lesson of the news in the last three years, National Socialism, or Nazism in Germany, will become the most world-disturbing event of the century, though Nazism is not, in its nature, only a German phenomenon. Nazism is a fusion of elements that are present in the minds of men and women everywhere, and it does offer one answer to political, social, and economic problems that everywhere press for solutions.” She argued, “Americans must understand there is a fundamental incompatibility between any form of social order based on political and economic freedom, and the dynamic aggrandizing of Fascism, or National Socialism. Nazism is a total Revolution.” Himmler in Germany was calling Nazism “Counter-Revolutionary” in that it aimed to reverse all the changes, including the American Revolution, that happened since the European Enlightenment.” Thompson described Nazism as a break with Reason, with Humanism, and with the Christian ethics that are at the base of America’s Liberal Democracy. She saw Nationalism as similar to Communism in that they both broke with the ethic or science that elevates the search for truth into the noblest of human passions. She thought Nationalism was worse than Communism, because it denies the concept of the inviolability of the human being. She saw Nazism, unlike Communism, as treating all of life as the un remitting struggle of tribal groups for biological survival. “In this struggle telling lies is openly accepted as a useful means to an end, which is dealing with what the Nazis believe to be naive and decadent democracies.” Since Nazis subjugate and destroy the common sense that grows out of human experience, the columnist wrote, “National Socialism is the enemy of whatever is sunny, life-affirming, form-seeking, and conscious of tradition.” She wrote, “It’s too late to answer the slogans of Fascism with the slogans of Democracy. It’s too late to hope we shall preserve Democracy without, effort, intelligence, responsibility, character and great sacrifice. In the next decade there will be no free rides to freedom.; it will not be preserved by geography or by the insistent chant, that no matter where else it is raining, it is bound to be sunny here, if not today, then tomorrow.” As her book hit the streets, Montana’s National Guard, the 163rd Infantry Regiment, received federal orders and was mobilized for WWII. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/01/opinion/steve-bannon-trump.html?pvid=SYRHkrQsloHnZVlUKUXgHQIE&smid=url-share