Antinuclear

The non-corporate nuclear news -week to 4 August

Some bits of good news –Canada will protect an area larger than Germany.  Timor-Leste, one of the poorest countries in the world, has eliminated malaria. India set a new record for solar and wind in first six months of the year

TOP STORIES. Hiroshima’s history lesson. 

Israel’s Genocidal Intentions Have Been Obvious This Whole Time
Genocide’s hard When You’ve Got a PR War to Win.Netanyahu Is Reportedly Planning to Annex Gaza Strip, With Trump Admin’s Backing.

Trump, or Violence as Diplomacy.

Sizewell C nuclear costs could hit £100bn including financing, modelling shows -ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/08/04/1-a-sizewell-c-nuclear-costs-could-hit-100bn-including-financing-modelling-shows/

A global call to action.

Climate. Melting glaciers threaten to wipe out European villages – is the steep cost to protect them worth it?

AUSTRALIA. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says Israel’s denial of starvation in Gaza ‘beyond comprehension. The Moral Compass is Broken. 

Senate launches inquiry into who is funding fake astroturf anti-renewables groups. 

“We can do that:” Australian Energy Market Operator says the country’s power system can be run on 100 pct renewable energy. Plunging cost of solar batteries ensures renewables remain lowest cost option for Australia, CSIRO says. 

Albanese government substantially expands renewable energy scheme amid 2030 target concerns.

NUCLEAR ITEMS

ATROCITIES. ‘Designed as Death Traps’: Fmr. Green Beret Who Worked at Gaza Food Sites Reveals Rampant War Crimes.

CLIMATE. Russian nuclear submarine base hit by tsunami – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/08/02/1-b1-russian-nuclear-submarine-base-hit-by-tsunami/

ECONOMICS. Sizewell C will cost more than Hinkley: Is it worth it? – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/08/03/2-a-sizewell-c-will-cost-more-than-hinkley-is-it-worth-it/

Sizewell C | Subsidy scheme shows public exposed to up to £54.6bn of costs.

All energy costs rise but small nuclear most reactive.

Russia’s Nuclear Ambitions Face Funding Crisis.

TEPCO logs net loss in April-June on Fukushima plant cleanup.

Marketing. AtkinsRéalis eyeing U.S. market for nuclear technology push -ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/07/31/1-b1-atkinsrealis-eyeing-u-s-market-for-nuclear-technology-push/

EDUCATION. Sizewell C to build further education campus in Leiston..

ENVIRONMENT. As plans for Sizewell C power station moves forward, those who live nearby must deal with the environmental fallout of 22,000 lost trees.Radioactive wasps discovered at South Carolina nuclear facility. Plastics, Profits and Power: How petrochemical companies are derailing the Global Plastics Treaty. Radiation dangers at “Sea Fest” in Cumbria. Plastification of our Brains: Cannot be good… – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi864FymjNY

ETHICS and RELIGION. “Release Israeli hostages? Get serious: We’ve got a genocide to complete”.

Trump ‘shocked, shocked’ Palestinians are starving in Gaza.

Time to De-Zionize the Israeli Mind.

Anti-nuclear weapons demo takes place at Faslane base.

LEGAL. Legal trickery: Israel has changed how land ‘ownership’ works in the West Bank. Tepco ordered to pay ¥100 million in damages over 2011 disaster.

MEDIA. As Gaza starves, journalists sell their cameras for food.Media Largely Ignored Gaza Famine When There Was Time to Avert Mass Starvation. Physicists unleashed the power of the atom — but to what end? – book review.

POLITICS. Zelensky’s end goal is in sight, and so is his end. Sen. Lindsey ‘Ghoulish’ Graham compares Israeli genocide in Gaza favorably to America’s WWII atomic bombings. United States: Pro-nuclear Energy Laws Sweep Through State Legislatures.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. Israel’s international isolation has begun. Trump Shows Strong Support for Israel as Palestinians in Gaza Starve to Death. Russia is staying quiet on Trump’s nuclear move. Never before has a US leader chosen to engage in nuclear brinkmanship of this kind. Not With a Bang, but With a Truth Social Post. Trump puts Putin on ‘Double Secret Probation’ for not ending Ukraine war..

SAFETY. IAEA reports hearing explosions, sees smoke near Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant.Mystery grows around state of Russian nuclear submarine base that is just 75 miles from epicentre of 8.8-magnitude megaquake.Metsamor could trigger next global nuclear emergency and Armenians denying it.

SECRETS and LIES. US, UK in secret talks with Ukrainian officials to ‘replace Zelensky’: Report.The CIA Built Hundreds of Covert Websites: Here’s What They Were Hiding.

SPINBUSTER.UK Government abandons plan to greenwash nuclear in a new taxonomy. Nuclear power drive obsesses over baseload: Do we need it? – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/?s=Nuclear+power+drive+obsesses+over+baseload Abuse of Ubuntu in nuclear money grabbing.  Report Slams Canada’s “Systematic Deception” Over Weapons Transfers to Israel. Small Modular Reactors: Déjà Vu All Over Again. Trump’s Fantasy Bid for the Nobel Peace Prize/

TECHNOLOGY. U.S. Nuclear Energy Plans Could Proliferate Weapons. Energy firm newcleo will suspend its programme to develop lead-cooled fast reactors (LFR) in Britain -ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/08/03/2-b1-energy-firm-newcleo-will-suspend-its-programme-to-develop-lead-cooled-fast-reactors-lfr-in-britain/

URANIUM. Russia eyes Niger’s uranium mines as West African nation ditches France. Court hears Uzbek group attempted to sell nuclear bomb material uranium on black market.

WASTES. The Enduring Problem of Nuclear Reactor Waste.Debris removal at Fukushima nuclear plant pushed back to 2037 or later.

WAR and CONFLICT. Israeli Navy Seizes Second Gaza-Bound Freedom Flotilla Vessel in 2 Months.Trump Deploys Nuclear Subs Amid War of Words With Russia’s Medvedev.

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES.Canada still arming Israel despite official ban, report finds.Trump moves nuclear submarines after ex-Russia president’s tweet.French nuclear weapons, 2025.An unwanted visitor to Britain’s shores – a harbinger of death.

August 4, 2025 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter