Antinuclear

To 27 March – Climate and Nuclear News Australia

Why single out one ecological disaster – when there are so many? I originally dedicated this weekly post to nuclear issues. Now it’s hard to prioritise nuclear.  We have the biodiversity crash now going on, and picking up speed. Climate change is always there -its most notable expression this week is in the drowning of Mozambique.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toInwS5pE6c&t=151s

AUSTRALIA

CLIMATE.

• Cyclones Veronica and Trevor continue to wreak havoc across northern Australia.
• Australia’s carbon emissions do have an impact . 
• The Stop the Adani Convoy: An Interview With Bob Brown.
• Coalition’s Canavan launches the sausage sizzle climate scare campaign.  Home Affairs Minister, and wannabe Australian P.M .Peter Dutton rubbishes the climate action schoolkids.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL8a1YEhk_o  NSW goes to the polls as major parties go quiet on climate, renewables.  Coal became a dirty word in NSW poll, but wind and solar face uncertainty.

NUCLEAR.  Australia is to build new nuclear reactors, in partnership with China (does Parliament know?)   Nuclear waste, and court actions.  Independent report found ANSTO’s health staff lacking in knowledge about radiation exposure.

RENEWABLE ENERGY. Court rejects bid to block South Australia wind and ‘biggest’ battery project. Wind generation hits peak output of more than 4,000MW in Australia.  CEFC tips $10m into home solar and battery-focused green bond.

INTERNATIONAL

A huge global wake-up call- the human devastation of climate change.

Drastic decline in insect numbers – the bugocalypse.

Small and Medium Nuclear Reactors (SMRs) – cost estimates, and what they cost to build.  The sorry history of small nuclear power reactors.

March 27, 2019 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina reviews