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Nuclear and related news – not just industry handouts

Some bits of good news –New Zealand launches largest-ever island rewilding to rescue 300+ species. Naturally Native-Water Vole Restoration. Merely Watching Scenes of Nature Can Reduce Pain, Says New StudyTOP STORIES

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Towards a Eurobomb: The Costs of Nuclear Sovereignty. Europe’s ‘nuclear umbrella’ risks catastrophic escalation.

14 years since Fukushima nuclear disaster: Greenpeace Japan statement. 

Nuclear power’s global stagnation. 

Poisoning the well – The toxic legacy of Cold War uranium mining in western New Mexico. 

The forever wars may be over, but Trump is no peacemaker.

Climate. ‘Global weirding’: climate whiplash hitting world’s biggest cities, study reveals.

AUSTRALIA.

• Australia’s Trump cards. 
• Greens leader Adam Bandt says Australia should walk away from AUKUS in wake of Trump’s tariffs.
• Coalition’s nuclear plan most expensive option for Australia, former US climate official says.
• “Nothing but broken promises”: ICAN Ambassador, Karina Lester calls out Australia’s inaction on the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. 
• More Australian nuclear news at https://antinuclear.net/2025/03/11/australian-nuclear-news-10-17-march/

NUCLEAR ITEMS.

ATROCITIES. Chris Hedges: On the Precipice of Darkness – Normalizing genocide and the new world order.

ECONOMICS. US makes fresh push for World Bank to back nuclear power.

EDUCATION. The nuclear industry continues to infiltrate education.

ENVIRONMENT. Some Small Nuclear Reactors could bypass environmental review step under Arizona bill.EDF unveils fresh details on new fish deterrent technology to be used at Hinkley Point C. EDF’s salt marsh plans pause met with ‘great relief’ on either side of the Severn.

ETHICS and RELIGION. Why is an ‘ethical’ investor funding arms companies?

HEALTH. They had a fairytale American childhood – but was radiation slowly killing them?Families sickened by radiation exposure want Congress to revive this key compensation – program https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0icfLF6AVEQ

INDIGENOUS ISSUES. Uranium fever collides with industry’s dark past in Navajo country.

LEGAL.14 years on: Justice at Fukushima remains denied. Court upholds two legal challenges to the Chalk River Radioactive Megadump.

OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Rainbow Warrior arrives in Marshall Islands to call for nuclear and climate justice on 40th anniversary of Rongelap evacuation.Councillors oppose nuclear dump site near Louth.

PERSONAL STORIES. Life as a “displaced person”

POLITICS.High stakes as Iran nuclear issue reaches crunch moment. Great British Nuclear explains how it will mitigate risks to SMR programme – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/03/15/1-b1-great-british-nuclear-explains-how-it-will-mitigate-risks-to-smr-programme/Canada Unveils $490-Million Push Towards Nuclear Energy.Anas Sarwar U-turns on Scottish Labour nuclear weapons policy.Alarmed by Trump, South Korea mulls Japan-style nuclear option.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. ‘Ukraine will not recognize any territory occupied by Russia’: Zelensky. NATO-Russia Ukrainian War Ceasefire: To Be Or Not To Be? Putin Signals He’s Open to Ceasefire as Witkoff Arrives for Talks.Dialogue only viable option to solve Iranian nuclear issue.China, Russia back Iran as Trump presses Tehran for nuclear talks.Russia, China discuss Tehran’s nuclear programme at Beijing meeting.

SAFETY. ‘Nervous and rushed’: Massive Fukushima plant cleanup work involves high radiation and stress.

What if a Fukushima-sized nuclear accident happened in Australia? –https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrScaM8ChXk US report discusses possibility of nuclear submarine accident, if subs supplied to Australia.

State Police to Hold Major Radiological Incident Exercise with International, Federal, State and Local Partners.

Incident: Human error leads to water spill at Finnish EPR

SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. Risk of Radiation Carcinogenesis.

SPINBUSTER. Let’s hear it for the ‘blockers’ – support common sense, not nonsense! Continued Propaganda About AI and Nuclear Power.

TECHNOLOGY. Delusional, ruinous and obsolete -the ITER nuclear fusion project.Elon Musk Announces ‘Massive Cyberattack’ Causing X Outage.Book Review: How Our Digital Infatuation Undermines Discourse.The Volunteer “Data Hoarders” Resisting Trump’s Purge.

URANIUM. Fukushima Remembered At URENCO’s Uranium Enrichment Plant Today in Cheshire.

WASTES. Governor urges contaminated soil be disposed of outside Fukushima by 2045.

WAR and CONFLICT. WSJ’s Chief Foreign Correspondent Declares It’s Over For Ukraine In Kursk. Chris Hedges: Trump’s Christian Fascists and the War on Palestine.

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES.

• Labour’s arms exports to Israel exposed Labour allowed dozens of arms exports to Israel after weapons sanctions.
• How multi-billion nuclear weapons facility aims to overcome challenge of limited supply chain.
• Royal Navy: Powerful new nuclear submarines being built costing £41bn – when will they enter the fleet?
• Qatar calls for Israel’s nuclear facilities to be under IAEA supervision.
• The nuclear testing revival: Global fallout with deadly consequences. How many nuclear weapons does the United States have in 2025? – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vsNKk9vkIE.
• We’re #1 in Selling Weapons!
• Europe going nuclear would be a catastrophic mistake. Could Poland and Germany acquire nuclear bombs?- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/03/15/1-b1-could-poland-and-germany-acquire-nuclear-bombs/ Poland’s president urges U.S. to move nuclear warheads to Polish territory. The Script of Anxiety: Poland’s Nuclear Weapons Fascination.
• FT reports. Movements across the world call for an end to all US military exercises on the Korean peninsula.
• Chinese nuclear weapons, 2025.
• An Unreliable America Means More Countries Want the Bomb.
• Canada to review the purchase of US-made F-35 fighter jets in light of Trump’s trade war.

March 18, 2025 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized