Nuclear news to 1st February Australia

Crisis within a crisis: Responding to COVID-19 around the world.

Climate crisis: world is at its hottest for at least 12,000 years – study. Scientists say temperatures globally at highest level since start of human civilisation.

On nuclear news – there’s a kind of hush, all over the world.….. Well, I suppose that this could be seen, in one twisted way – as good news. This is the fact that the coronavirus pandemic is putting the brakes on nuclear development, in UK, and the USA. As always, we don’t know much about its impact on Russia and China.

Still, the global nuclear lobby keeps up its unrelenting propaganda on nuclear power as the (false) cure for climate change. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0poNgL57kc&feature=emb_title Also distressing is the move for nuclear reactors to be permitted to operat for 100 years, a cunning, but dangerous, way to avoid costs of decommissioning them,

A bit of good news –. Oh dear, I had trouble finding it this week – had to revert to one a few weeks back – What went right this week: hope for stabilising the climate.

AUSTRALIA

Kimba nuclear waste dump issue is in limbo in the Australian Senate. The Australian government’s Radioactive Waste Bill does not meet required IAEA standards. Resource Minister Pitt should withdraw the Bill as the process for a Kimba nuclear waste dump has failed.

Australian Labor Party’s removal of Mark Butler as Shadow Minister for Climate Change & Energy. – an ominous sign for the nuclear-free movement Labor’s climate spokesman, Mark Butler, dumped as Labor’s climate action push collapses at a truly pivotal moment. Joel Fitzgibbon Demands Labor’s Climate Change Policy Be Solely Based On Keeping Him In A Job.

Rupert Murdoch gets a very dodgy ”Australia Day Award’‘, the honour coming from miners and bankers!

INTERNATIONAL

Avoiding a ‘Ghastly Future’: Hard Truths on the State of the Planet.

The most dangerous situation humanity has ever faced – Doomsday Clock stays at 100 seconds to midnight. Who’s next? Experts worry about East Asia and the Middle East getting nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons proliferation can be contagious.

Nuclear wastes – deliberately left to our grandchildren.

Why nuclear power is a bad way to balance renewable energy .

French parliamentarians nominate Julian Assange for Nobel Peace Prize.

February 1, 2021 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina reviews

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