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     I have posted about the devastating aftermath of even a small exchange of nuclear weapons would lead to a worldwide famine according to new research. Soot from burning cities and military targets would spread around the planet and cool it by reflecting sunlight back into space. The result would be a massive failure of crops worldwide. In a worst case scenario, billions of people would die.
     Lili Xia is a climate scientist at Rutgers University in New Brunswick led the team in the new research. She said, “A large percent of the people will be starving. It’s really bad.” Her research was published in the August 15 issue of the journal Nature Food. The report is the latest in a though experiment that has been going on for decades about the global consequences of nuclear war. Considering the danger of a nuclear war triggered by the war in Ukraine, this study is especially relevant. The Ukraine war has already disrupted global food supplies, which emphasizes the far-reaching impacts of a regional conflict.
     Discussions of nuclear war covers a range of lethal impacts form killing people directly in atomic detonations to the linger effects of radiation and other environmental pollution. Xia and her team wanted to look at more remote consequences farther from the scene of a war. They wanted to explore how people all around the plante could also suffer.
      Xia and her team modelled how the climate would change in different parts of the world following a nuclear war. They wanted to know how crops and fisheries would be affected by those changes. Xia’s team analyzed six different war scenarios. Each of these would inject different amounts of soot into the atmosphere. This would result in a drop of surface temperatures from two degrees to twenty degrees Fahrenheit which would last for at least a decade.
     A nuclear war between India and Pakistan which could be  triggered by their dispute over the Kashmir region, could toss between five millions and forty seven tons of soot into the atmosphere. The exact amount of soot would be dependent on how many warheads were exchanged and how many cities destroyed. On the other hand, a full nuclear war between the United States and Russia could produce one hundred and fifty million tons of soot. The global-encircling shroud of soot would last for years until the skies eventually cleared.
      Xia and her team used information from United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization. They calculated how declining crop yields and fishery catches after a nuclear war would affect the number of calories available for people to eat. They studied several options that would affect their calculations such as whether people continued to raise livestock or whether they routed some or all crops meant to feed livestock to feed human beings instead. The study assumed that there would be some repurposing of biofuel crops for human consumption. People would be forced to reduce or eliminate food waste. The researchers also assumed that international trade would stop as countries chose to feed their citizens rather than exporting food.
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Ambient outside = 91 nanosieverts per hour

Soil exposed to rain water = 88 nanosieverts per hour

Jalapeno pepper from Central Market = 80 nanosieverts per hour

Tap water = 80 nanosieverts per hour

Filter water = 69 nanosieverts per hour

Ambient office = 60 nanosieverts per hour

Ambient outside = 129 nanosieverts per hour

Soil exposed to rain water = 132 nanosieverts per hour

Heirloom from Central Market = 87 nanosieverts per hour

Tap water = 99 nanosieverts per hour

Filter water = 85 nanosieverts per hour

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Ambient office = 72 nanosieverts per hour

Ambient outside = 122 nanosieverts per hour

Soil exposed to rain water = 123 nanosieverts per hour

Fig from Central Market = 89 nanosieverts per hour

Tap water = 87 nanosieverts per hour

Filter water = 73 nanosieverts per hour

Dover Sole from Central = 92 nanosieverts per hour

     TAE Technologies developed the Norman reactor in 2017 to maintain plasma at fifty-four million degrees Fahrenheit. The machine has demonstrated that it is able to stabilize a plasma at over one hundred and thirty-five million degrees Fahrenheit. This is more than two hundred and fifty percent greater than its initial aim after five years of steady improvement.
     The non-radioactive method used in the design of Norman is called hydrogen-boron fusion. It is considered by many to be the quickest, most feasible, and most cost -effective way to supply the grid with large amounts of carbon-free electricity.
     TAE has impressed investors and has raised one billion two hundred million for commercial fusion developments. The company has a track record of exceeding milestones and performance capabilities. Their mission is to provide a long-term solution to the world’s rapidly growing electricity demands while ensure global energy independence and security.
      With their primary goal in mind, the company recently closed its Series G-2 financing round. In this round, it secured two hundred and fifty million dollars from investors in the energy, technology, and engineering sectors. By avoiding the emission of carbon dioxide and particulates, TAE’s safe, non-radioactive method minimizes any negative effects on the environment or the effects of climate change.
     TAE’s most recent investors include Chevron, Google, Reimagined Ventures, Sumitomo Corporation of Americas, and TIFF Investment Management. They have also received funds from a big mutual fund manager with headquarters on the West Coast of the U.S. and a big U.S. pension fund.
      Michl Binderbauer is the CEO of TAE Technologies. He said, “The caliber and interest of our investors validate our significant technical progress and support our goal to begin commercialization of fusion by the end of this decade. Global electricity demand is growing exponentially, and we have a moral obligation to do our utmost to develop a baseload power solution that is safe, carbon-free, and economically viable.”
     TAE’s first Japanese investor was Sumitomo Corporation of Americas (SCOA). They will collaborate with TAE to bring commercial power and other fusion-derived technologies to the Asia Pacific market. A commercial collaboration agreement with SCOA has been signed. SCOA is a subsidiary of the Sumitomo Corporation which is a Fortune 500 global trade and business investment organization with headquarters in Tokyo, to develop TAE based technologies in Japan and Asial.
       Sandro Hasagawa is the General Manager of Energy Innovation Initiative Americas at SCOA. He said, “We look forward to being a partner in bringing TAE’s clean energy solutions to the APAC market, which will be paramount to sustaining local economies without impacting our planet. We are pleased to support TAE’s groundbreaking fusion technology to create safe, sustainable energy sources across multiple industries and applications.”
     TAE has secured strategic and institutional investments sufficient to fund the construction of its next research reactor call Copernicus. The TAE’s planned Copernicus reactor will be constructed in a one hundred thousand square foot facility in Irvine California. The goal of the Copernicus project is to demonstrate that the company’s advanced beam-driven field-reversed configuration (FRC) can produce net energy. This is the last step on the road to commercializing clear fusion power.

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Ambient office = 88 nanosieverts per hour

Ambient outside = 105 nanosieverts per hour

Soil exposed to rain water = 104 nanosieverts per hour

English cucumber from Central Market = 136 nanosieverts per hour

Tap water = 140 nanosieverts per hour

Filter water = 126 nanosieverts per hour