A watershed week in nuclear news

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It’s a watershed moment – on 2 counts:

1. Ukraine. The determination of the USA-led Western countries to bring Ukraine into NATO is a red flag to Russia, and current events, indicate that the West, and its charismatic super-star Zelensky, will not countenance any negotiated end to the war.

2. The IAEA’s Rafael Grossi has made it clear that the Fukushima nuclear wastewater MUST be emptied into the Pacific, to ensure that this practice is accepted, for the continued growth of the nuclear industry world-wide.

Christina notes. IAEA hypocrisy, and the little Fukushima nuclear radiation mill. And the prize for HYPOCRISY goes to Rafael Grossi,Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency. No real research into the effects of releasing nuclear waste-water into rivers and seas. Oh goody! That means it’s OK, (doesn’t it?)

TOP STORIES

Ralph Nader: Reverse the Accelerating Warfare State Before It’s Too Late! Daniel Kovalik: Why Russia’s intervention in Ukraine is legal under international law. Chris Hedges: They Lied About Afghanistan. They Lied About Iraq. And They Are Lying About Ukraine.

Better, safer, alternatives for managing Fukushima’s radioactively polluted wastewater. Cover up? Did atom bosses collude to ‘manage message’ of Japanese plan to poison Pacific? Will this whistleblower be heard by anyone? Fukushima: Anxiety and anger over Japan’s nuclear waste water plan.

An Attack on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant Could Still be Catastrophic (- nuclear promoters minimise the risk). Red alert at Zaporizhzhia? US cluster bombs deal is clear signal that war is not going well for Ukraine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpVon7R2XKo

AUSTRALIA.

Barngarla people continue their fight against the proposed Kimba nuclear waste dump.
Vice Admiral Jonathon Mead to be Director-General of New Australian Submarine Agency. Sinking billions: undergunned and overpriced. Inside ‘nuke school’, the elite US training ground preparing Australian submariners for an AUKUS future.
Peter Dutton ramps up nuclear power push and claims Labor down ‘renewable rabbit hole’. Bowen: “Australia will be renewable energy superpower, not a nuclear backwater”. Nuclear: Coalition remains trapped by climate and technology denial. Queensland’s Liberal National Party leader Crisafulli rejects Dutton’s push for nuclear power.

CLIMATE. Wishful thinking about nuclear energy won’t get us to net zero.

CIVIL LIBERTIES. Ben & Jerry’s, CodePink Co-Founders Arrested in DC Demanding Freedom for Julian Assange.

ECONOMICS.

World’s 30 major banks are NOT investing in so-called “green” “sustainable” nuclear energy.
Small nuclear reactors are unaffordable, and Rafael Grossi and the IAEA know this! Minireactor cost surge threatens nuclear’s next big thing,
Holtec hogs the money, but Michigan ratepayers will foot the bill for reactor resuscitation.
Jacobs’ nuclear spin-off raises alarm in Whitehall.

ENERGY. Germany’s power mix boasts more renewables, lower spot market prices – despite nuclear exit. Fukushima: China calls for suspension of Japanese plan to release radioactive water into sea. Russian K-278 sub sank 30 years ago but continues to leak radiation. Historic Hanford contamination is worse than expected.

FILM. The Fukushima Disaster: The hidden side of the story, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBqk0OtlE8k

HEALTH. Workers, residents at US site that made Nagasaki A-bomb’s plutonium still suffering. U.S. senators seek expanded compensation for people exposed to nuclear fallout.

INDIGENOUS ISSUES. Local colleges train students to work in a plutonium pit factory, but at what cost? First Nations won’t back nuclear plant expansion until waste questions are answered.

LEGAL High nuclear crimes don’t pay.

MEDIA. Fukushima, the Hidden Side of the Story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBqk0OtlE8k . Journalists Abandoned Julian Assange and Slit Their Own Throats. Today in war propaganda.

NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY. World’s Largest Fusion Project Is in Big Trouble, New Documents Reveal. Even the science engineering big-wigs don’t seem too enthusiastic about nuclear fusion. Sweden goes for small nuclear reactors, dumps renewable energy plans. Canada planning World’s Biggest Nuclear Power Plant . UK Labour seeks pact to keep AI out of nuclear arms deployment.

OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR. Huge protest against Rafael Grossi at Gimpo airport, Seoul, South Korea. Jeju islanders protest Japan’s radioactive water discharge. UN report on Japan’s Fukushima water plans fails to placate opponents. Come and join us: Nuclear Free Local Authorities individual membership launched on Independence Day. Backlash builds as Japan prepares to release wastewater from Fukushima nuclear plant. Nagasaki to take shot at G-7 over its nuclear deterrence stance.

POLITICS. Italy’s Nuclear Energy Debate: Past, Present, and Future. US govt provides yet another round of money grants to companies, including Westinghouse, to promote nuclear power development. RFK Jr torches Biden for handing “horrific” cluster munitions to Ukraine.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. ” The future of nuclear as an alternative energy source relies on the success of the Fukushima release” – Rafael Grossi, (“problem is war, not nuclear energy”- Grossi). International community cannot tolerate Japan’s nuclear-contaminated water dumping.. Ukraine, Russia accuse each other of planning to attack Europe’s biggest nuclear plant. Russia and Ukraine step up rhetoric around Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Ukraine in talks with Bulgaria to buy Russian nuclear reactors with EU funds. N Korea slams US move to deploy nuclear submarines to peninsula.

SAFETY. Russia calls on NATO to discuss Ukraine nuclear plant. IAEA: Europe’s largest nuclear power plant regains back-up electricity feed. Especially in USA, nuclear reactors are getting very old – past their use-by dates. INCIDENTS: One of the world’s worst nuclear disasters is likely something you’ve never heard of.

SECRETS and LIES. Nuclear Contaminated Water Dumping: IAEA Concludes ‘Absolute Safety of Nuclear Contaminated Water’ – with Japanese Government Money?.

Despite Zelensky’s claims, there’s no evidence that Russia has rigged Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya plant with explosives, nuclear watchdog says.

SPINBUSTER. Despite Zelensky’s claims, there’s no evidence that Russia has rigged Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya plant with explosives, nuclear watchdog says. John Bolton Accidentally Explains Why US Policy On Russia And China Is Wrong.

WASTES. IAEA chief Rafael Grossi says he’s satisfied with Japan’s plans to release Fukushima wastewater. Japanese regulator greenlights discharge of nuclear waste from Fukushima plant. What to know about Japan’s plan to release treated radioactive water from Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea. Japan Set to Pour Fukushima Water Into Pacific, Irking China. Japan’s nuclear regulator finishes inspection of Fukushima radioactive wastewater release system. Japan claims that China and South Korea both pour radioactive waste-water , worse than Japan’s, into the oceans.

Hanford nuclear waste site has a clean-up bill of 560 billion USD in Washington DC . Missouri S&T will ask St. Louis-area residents their opinions about nuclear waste.

WAR and CONFLICT.