Antinuclear

This week’s countering the nuclear spin

Some bits of good news.  Solar Power’s Giants Are Providing More Energy Than Big Oil.     Clean-Energy Investment This Year To Be Twice That of Fossil Fuels, IEA Says.  A River’s Rights: Indigenous Kukama Women Lead the Way with Landmark Legal Victory.

TOP STORIES. Blinken made secret weapons promise to Israel – Netanyahu. The US, Russia, and Ukraine: 75 Years of Hate Propaganda. Nuclear-armed countries spent $2,898 per second last year on nuclear weapons. We’ve barely scratched the surface of how energy efficiency can help the energy transition.

Climate. Extreme heat and flash floods: Scientists warn of hazardous summer weather in Europe. Climate Emergency strikes Islam’s Holy Ritual, with nearly 600 dead of Heat stroke at 124.24° F. in Mecca. Saudi Arabia shuts pilgrims out of air-conditioned areas as more than 1,000 die in extreme heat.

Nuclear.  Overwhelmed with Australian stuff this week!

Noel’s notes. Nuclear culture wars – especially in Australia.      What a disaster, if the anti-war movement brings Donald Trump back to the White House!

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AUSTRALIA  Keep up to date at this site: 
Australia’s media quagmire on nuclear power. 
Lockheed Martin, Australian Government: joined at the hip. Australian Futures: 
Bringing AUKUS Out of Stealth Mode, and the true financial costs.

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NUCLEAR ISSUES

ECONOMICS.  Big Tech Wants Nuclear Power But
 Doesn’t See Role as Investor.      Australian Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s nuclear plan could cost as much as $600bn and supply just 3.7% of Australia’s energy by 2050, experts say. Nuclear power’s financial problems exposed in new report. Very late and over budget: Why newest large nuclear plant in US is likely to be the last. UK’s nuclear plant will cost nearly three times what was estimated.

ENERGY. Why we are heading for a globally connected electricity system based on renewable energy.

EVENTS. Veterans for Peace Golden Rule Project 2024: the Pacific Northwest.

ETHICS and RELIGION. Ten Holocaust survivors condemn Israel’s Gaza genocide.

HEALTH. Nuclear industry workers face significant, inevitable and unavoidable radiation health risks.

LEGAL. Sellafield operators plead guilty to criminal charges over security breaches. Veterans for Peace Golden Rule Project 2024: the Pacific Northwest.

MEDIA. Comments to The Times: Nuclear won’t fix our energy crisis

OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR .
 Kenya’s first nuclear plant: why plans face fierce opposition in country’s coastal paradise.

POLITICS.

• Senate Nuclear Fetishists Take Lid Off of Pandora’s Box.
• No more ‘endless’ payments to Zelensky – Trump.
• Prime Minister Rishi Sunak reinforced his party’s commitment to nuclear energy  UK nuclear power plants rollout may be hit by planning hurdles. ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2024/06/22/1-b1-uk-nuclear-power-plants-rollout-may-be-hit-by-planning-hurdles/    Nuclear black hole could deal a knock-out blow to UK Labour’s renewable targets.  
• Over budget and plagued with delays: UK nuclear lessons for Australia.
• Scotland’s First Minister Swinney hits back at ‘hopelessly ideological’ attack from nuclear industry.
• U.S. Congress passes bill to jumpstart new nuclear power tech, but it may be too little, too late.
• Gavin Newsom’s $12 Billion Radioactive Diablo Scam Could Soon Be Twisting In The Wind.
• Norway To Consider Developing Nuclear Energy.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.Why ‘no’ to NATO? U.S. and China hold first informal nuclear talks in five years, France’s Orano loses operating licence at major uranium mine in Niger.

SAFETY. ‘Lax’ nuclear security leaving UK at risk of cyber attacks from hostile nations.

SECRETS and LIES. Leaked doc reveals Israeli military KNEW of Hamas plan to raid and take hostages 2 weeks before Oct 7, Israeli news reports.

SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS The United Nations Security Council takes up Space Security – it might have been best if it had not.

SPINBUSTER. Australia’s Nuclear debate is getting heated, but whose energy plan stacks up?

WASTES. Specialised device tried to recover highly radioactive melted fuel at Fukushima plant.

TECHNOLOGY. Researchers have doubts, but Bill Gates is hyping his new liquid-sodium nuclear reactor.URANIUM.

 Iran’s Nuclear Point Man : We Won’t Bow to Pressure.  

WAR and CONFLICT. Can Israel defeat Hamas? Its own military doesn’t seem to think so, clashing with Netanyahu. Delusional Netanyahu joins delusional Zelensky in seeking total victory when none possible. Israeli ‘extremist’ tells Australian audience Gaza should have been reduced to ashes.

Ukraine, Continued Aid, and the Prevailing Logic of Slaughter.

What nuclear annihilation could look like.

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES.

• Corporations are influencing government policy on nuclear weapons, a damning report shows. 
• Congress will hold a hearing about the Sentinel missile’s exploding budget, but is it too little, too late?.
•  NATO chief says members considering deployment of more nuclear weapons, Kremlin warns it’s an ‘escalation of tension’ 
•  Top lawmakers sign off on massive US arms sale to Israel. Chutzpah: Netanyahu demands Biden give him more genocide weapons “to finish the job a lot faster.” Former Official: Biden State Department Bending US Law to Send Israel Weapons.
• Sweden opens doors to possible US nukes deployment.
• US greenlights new arms sale to Taiwan.
• Vandenberg Conducts Test Launch for Development of New Weapon System.

June 24, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized | nuclear, energy, nuclear-energy, nuclear-power, iran