May 2021

Low-Cal Desserts

While I'm more focused on low-sugar than low-calorie, I like to do both as much as possible--especially when it comes to desserts! Yogurt and whipped cream desserts are some of my faves because not only can you make them that way, but they also are super easy to make with ingredients that are easy to find. I can even make a quick one with the heavy cream I keep for my coffee.

We Want A Popular Vote

As often as we've had a president sworn in who didn't win the popular vote in my lifetime, you'd think the United States would've done something about the archaic Electoral vote once and for all by now. It's an outrageous, outdated idea that has its roots in white supremacy and slavery. It has absolutely no place in the modern world.

Radioactive Waste 803 - Sweden Is Behind In Approval Of Application For Permanent Underground Repository For Spent Nuclear Fuel

     In Sweden, the Ringhals AB nuclear power plant and the Forsmarks Kraftgrupp AB nuclear power plants each sent an Urgent Market Message to the Nord Pool power exchange yesterday about the potential risk that nuclear power reactors at both power plants might not be able to restart after scheduled outages in 2024, 2025, and 2028 because there is no place to store the spent nuclear fuel from the reactors.

Nuclear Reactors 894 - China Working On Large Scale Extraction of Uranium From Seawater - Part 2 of 2 Parts

Part 2 of 2 Parts (Please read Part 1 first)
     Que Weimin is the secretary general of the China Seawater Uranium Extraction Technology Innovation Alliance. He says that many difficult technological challenges remain in developing practical and cost-effective extraction of valuable minerals from seawater.    

Nuclear Reactors 892 - Four Canadian Provinces Considering Small Modular Reactors For Power Generation - Part 2 of 2 Parts

Part 2 of 2 Parts (Please read Part 1 first)
     Theoretically, nuclear disasters could happen anywhere in the world there are nuclear power plants. However, there is a much more tangible concern that impacts all nuclear nations. That concern is the disposal of spent nuclear fuel.

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