Nuclear news to 15th March – Australia and international
The Fukushima anniversary is over. A sigh of relief? We can now all forget about it? Not really. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8njLkMigH4&t=10s
Numerous well-researched articles on the event conclude that Japan’s struggle with the aftermath has no end in sight. A hastily released ”comforting ” health report from The United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation has been criticised as unconvincing and inconsistent. The Japanese government, and the global nuclear lobby doggedly persist in planning for the ”Recovery Olympics” in Tokyo in July. But in view of the pandemic and the lingering radiation, that may not be a done deal
AUSTRALIA
Australian uranium fuelled Fukushima . Australia must learn the lessons of Fukushima.– Time that Australia looks beyond uranium mining, and towards rehabilitation of the environment. Time for Australia to clean up uranium mining damage, and end this toxic industry – Western Australia could lead the way.
Refuting Senator Matt Canavan’s inaccurate hype about small nuclear reactors. New South Wales Energy Minister ”excited about the opportunities” for nuclear power. – Energy minister backs nuclear option. MP Josh Wilson’s excellent submission Senate, about nuclear wastes.
INTERNATIONAL
Fukushima: “How Japan was blinded to the predicted certainty of disaster“. 10 years after Fukushima – still nuclear regulatory capture, and poor safety culture. Whitewashing of Fukushima meltdown by United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation.
Nuclear power faces a wobbly future. Ten years on from Fukushima, nuclear power continues to struggle with deeper problems. Nuclear power is unpopular: promoted only by those with vested interests.
Billionaire Bill Gates’ nuclear ambitions would make climate disaster worse.
Global nuclear industry in decline since 1996, even without Fukushima disaster.
The long-term problem of ”peaceful” plutonium.
The radiation danger to astronauts– cancer, heart disease -an ethical problem. Space radiation – harmful to astronauts, not only with cancers, but also with heart and blood vessel effects. Low doses of radiation used in medical imaging lead to mutations in cell cultures.
The growing threat of space debris.
How the world came close to nuclear war catastrophe.
‘Every euro invested in nuclear power makes the climate crisis worse‘. Small modular reactors not the solution, says German nuclear authority .
Need to establish compensation schemes for future nuclear accidents.
So-called ”cloud” computing means huge electricity use in data so-called ”farms”.
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1.This month.
The Road to War brings a sharp focus to why it is not in Australia’s best interest to be dragged into a war with China which will almost inevitably go nuclear very quickly. The filmmaker has interviewed some of Australia’s senior foreign policy analysts who have vast experience behind them in analysing what really is going on here as the United States rattles its sabres with China. And sets us up to be its proxy, like the poor Ukranians have been fed into the Meatgrinder. So America can remain the Top Dog. The Road to War reveals how the United States through its spy base at Pine Gap and by stationing six nuclear capable B52 bombers in the Top End (without permission from the traditional owners) is making Australia a prime nuclear target if the current war of words suddenly melts down into full scale war.
The Road to War shows the implicit connection between Carbon emissions (the US military uses a whopping 70% of America’s annual petroleum to move its armies and vast War Machine around the globe to its 800+ military bases..but under a loophole wangled at Kyoto, the US military does not have to report its C02 annual emissions). The Road to War starts screening at selected cities and regional centres in March. See the trailer end for details.
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