This week in nuclear news – Australia

Coronavirus –  India records 100,636 new cases, tally hits 28,909,975

Climate crisis to shrink G7 economies twice as much as Covid-19, says research.
Chernobyl Guards Have Befriended Abandoned Dogs, Feeding Them and Bringing Medical Care,    I00-Year-Old Galápagos Giant Tortoise Found on Fernandina Island is Indeed Member of ‘Extinct’ Species, (but this is a ”good news – bad news’‘ story)

On the nuclear scene, while not a lot is actually happening, in nuclear weapons countries,  the determined nuclear weapons push continues, most politicians seem to have been well and truly bought by the industry.
With an eye to the November Climate Summit meeting in Glascow, the nuclear lobby revs up its push for small nuclear reactors, or indeed, any, nuclear reactors as the climate cure.

  AUSTRALIA.  

•  Australia’s nuclear waste policy shambles.  At Kimba, the National Radioactive Waste Management Faciity (NRWMF) insert themselves into community events.   
•  Australia’s Climate Change Authority now taken over by the nuclear lobby, and influenced by ”secret society” of nuclear promoters.   Australia’s pro nuclear lobby, via News Corpse, is revving up the propaganda, especially the ”climate cure” hoax.     
• Small nuclear reactors for New South Wales ? – dirty, dangerous, and uneconomic. New South Wales Deputy Premier Barilaro in the grip of the nuclear lobby. New South Wales Productivity Commission slammed for recommending nuclear power while ignoring offshore wind.
• Mulga Rock Uranium Project – VIMY’S mine – unwanted and uneconomic   
• Morrison government’s scandalous silence on the Japanese plan to release Fukushima nuclear waste water into the Pacific Ocean. 
•   The fake charity AMDA Foundation is exposed by Michael West Media’s Michelle Fahy. Independent and Peaceful Australia Network  (IPAN) calls for a fossil-free future — not war.
• INTERNATIONAL.
  The nuclear lobby’s desperate push to be included in COP26. Nuclear lobby spins its frenzied propaganda – with  flimsy arguments for new nuclear power.  Only renewables — and not nuclear power — can deliver truly low-carbon energy.
  ‘‘Fallout: The Hitoshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World”Ice sheets melting, ocean currents, and the risk of climate tipping points.
  The Rio de Janeiro International Uranium Film Festival 2021 has awarded two film-makers on nuclear disarmament issues.
• JAPAN. Fukushima waste water dumped in Pacific Ocean – a critical environmental issue threatening marine pollution.

June 7, 2021 - Posted by Christina MacPherson | Christina reviews