Another week in nuclear and climate news in Australia

The deck chairs at the Titanic Paris Climate Talks in December include a chair for EDF the giant French nuclear company, which is a sponsor of the conference. Meanwhile in UK, the Thorium Nuclear lobby has got itself charity status. The global nuclear lobby is working hard to win the world to its new, though yet non-existent, technologies. It is using 3 main lies:

LIE 1 “new nuclear solves the wastes problem”. For September www.antinuclear.net and www.nuclear-news.net have focused on that particular lie. LIE 2. “Low dose ionising radiation is harmless, even good for you” – a focus for October. LIE 3. “nuclear solves climate change” – the focus for November.

September 26 – International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

Join the ‘Don’t Nuke the Climate’ Thunderclap! www.thunderclap.it/projects/31410-edf-nuclear-the-solution

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR FUEL CHAIN ROYAL COMMISSI0ON is beavering away, holding public hearings with interested parties, and with some who must be a nuisance to it. Sept 23rd they had to put up with Professor John Quiggin, telling them that renewables are happening, and CANDU nuclear reactors just aren’t. Rebecca Keane’s Submission didn’t help them either, spelling out South Australia’s potential as leader in renewable energy. Electrical trades Union of Australia dispelled the hype about Generation IV Nuclear Reactors.

Those pesky Aboriginal women who stopped the last attempt to make South Australia a radioactive trash dump – are at it again – “We do not want nuclear anything on our Land “- Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Law and Culture.

Coober Pedy gets another not very impressive visit from the Royal Commission.

NATIONAL POLITICS Australia’s new Resources Minister Josh Frydenberg is a nuclear power enthusiast. Malcolm Turnbull disappoints on Climate Change Policy

WESTERN AUSTRALIA . Yeelirrie Uranium project – the fight is just beginning. Walkatjurra Walkabout completes 5th walk against uranium mining in West Australia.

RENEWABLE ENERGY Tesla’s new Powerwall solar-energy batteries available in Australia this year. It will disrupt Australia’s energy market.

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For international nuclear news go to https://nuclear-news.net

Please come along to this webinar discussing the Fukushima disaster which is an ongoing disaster that Japan is still pretending to the world is under control.

9 March – WEBINAR.

7 pm Eastern time AAEDT

6.30 pm Central rime South Australia

6 pm. Weatern Australia

Tuesday, March 9 at 10am Ramallah | 1:30pm Delhi | 3pm Jakarta | 5pm Tokyo | 7pm Melbourne

Language: English

Guest Speakers: Ayumi Fukakusa, Climate Change and Energy campaigner,

FoE Japan, Kirsten Blair Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation,, and Dr. Philip White,

Friends of the Earth Adelaide and author of the PhD thesis ‘Fukushima disaster and Japan’s energy policy.’

Register http://bit.ly/2OdUwEs

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26 Feb – 24 April The Image is not Nothing (Concrete Archives) is a group exhibition that explores the ways in which acts of nuclear trauma, Indigenous genocide and cultural erasure have been memorialised by artists and others. It comes as the result of research by curators Lisa Radford and Yhonnie Scarce whose fieldwork has encompassed sites of significance including Auschwitz, Chernobyl, Fukushima, Hiroshima, Maralinga, New York, Wounded Knee and former Yugoslavia.

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Submissions to the Senate Committee Inquiry into National Radioactive Management Amendment Bill. 2020. Go to our summaries of significant submissions, conveniently listed in alphabetical order at Kimba waste dump submissions or see all submissions listed at Read the Submissions

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