This week’s nuclear news – Australia and overseas
Covid 19 coronavirus: Around the world – situation update
Climate change behind global heat deaths
Nuclear. The coronavirus, with its global effects on health, human suffering is also, of course, affecting the economy, and most (though not all) businesses. The ”commercial” nuclear industry is affected, but not the nuclear weapons industry. The nuclear-armed nations are revving up their weapons expenditure. The USA is the shiningly obscene example. Clearly the nuclear weapons industry has captured the American government, it hardly matters whether the administration is in Democratic or Republican hands.
Some bits of good news: Chernobyl Guards Have Befriended Abandoned Dogs, Feeding Them and Bringing Medical Care. World’s Largest Wind Turbine Manufacturer Says All Its Blades Will Soon be Fully Recycled.
AUSTRALIA.
Australia, the USA’s only ”best friend” in the Indo Pacific, to deploy more USA military equipment, heightening the threat against China. Australian Robert Floyd to head the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation.
Nuclear trash – a tale of two Sydney suburbs.
Radioactive particles still endanger wildlife in the landscape around Maralinga.
Australian company Greenland Minerals fails community test over controversial rare earths and uranium mine plan.
Environmentalists and Aboriginal traditional owners object to rocket launching on South Australian protected heritage land, at Whaler’s Way.
Tough environmental regulation brings economic benefits. Australia lags behind all OECD countries. Australia/UK Free Trade Agreement will give corporations the right to sue governments.
INTERNATIONAL.
A People’s Guide to the War Industry .
The appalling mistreatment of Australian citizen, Julian Assange, – by USA, UK, and Australia. Targeted surveillance threatens human rights defenders.
“Unqualified” —who is allowed to talk about nuclear power ?
Report on the threat of nuclear terrorism.
New technology comes nowhere close to solving the problem of nuclear waste. Despite the Small Nuclear Reactor push from Bill Gates and the rest of the nuclear lobby, we already have the technologies to decarbonise our global economy.
New research highlights need for international standards to safeguard against plutonium ”hot” particles.
Ionising radiation the big danger to astronauts.
The time to divest from Bitcoin is now.
1st U.N. nuclear ban meeting may be postponed until after Non Proliferation Treaty review.
U.S. Energy Information reports uranium at lowest price since 2007.
As electric vehicles take off, we’ll need to recycle their batteries.
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