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Nuclear news – this last week of June

Pandemic.  Daily Update: What you need to know about the coronavirus around the world right now. World Coronavirus Dispatch: Three studies hint at where pandemic is headed.

Oh dear – I promised myself that I would not digress off into the pandemic discussion.  But – I’m finding it scary – to come across people who think that the pandemic is not real, or that vaccination is some plot to take over the world, or who’ve decided that they don’t need vaccination..  Dammit – vaccination is our best bet.……

Climate. As if anti-vacc isn’t enough to worry about, now we’ve got climate complacency – possibly more dangerous than climate denialism –   as global heating moves on inexorably.  Hundreds of millions of people worldwide at risk from rising sea levels.  Canada sets all-time record-high temperature as North America’s north-west cooks under ‘heat dome‘.

Nuclear. Well it’s the drums of war beating. The one thing that Wester conservatives and progressives agree on –  we’d better boost our nuclear weapons ready for a war on China. Meanwhile, the promotion of new small nuclear recators goes on. See below –  excellent article  by  Victor Gilinsky, Henry Sokolski, (highlighted in yellow) 

A bit of good news –  Park it! Why the world is greener.

AUSTRALIA. 

Australia’s collective voice should silence the ‘drums of war‘. Federal nuclear waste dump plan. 

• The Senate’s nuclear waste dilemma. Nuclear waste Bill passed. This is what will happen next.     Within weeks, Minister Keith Pitt is expected to declare Napandee, (Kimba, South Australia) as the site for the nuclear waste dump.
•  Barngarla Aboriginals and Kimba farmers join forces to fight nuclear waste dump plan. Barngarla people hold Native Title land close to planned nuclear waste dump, but were denied a vote on this. 
•  Need to reveal full details of nomination forms for Kimba and Wallerberdina nuclear waste dump plans. South Australian Minister Dan van Holst Pellekaan shuns Supreme Court Justice’s ruling to release Kimba nuclear documents. 
•  Australian Parliamentarians misled by Minister Pitt’s lies about nuclear medicine.
•   Senator Hanson Young gave the clearest explanation of the issues around the government’s nuclear waste Bill. ‘ Senator Hanson-Young outlined the shambles that the nuclear waste siting process has been. Senator Rex Patrick explained why the Woomera prohibited area would be a more suitable site for a nuclear waste dump.  

• OTHER
• Construction of ANSTO’s new intermediate waste facility at Lucas Heights – 
• Australian government pushes to remove the ban on nuclear power. Morrison government bringing push for nuclear energy as an election issue. 
• Lowy Institute polling shows that 91% of Australians want the federal government to support renewable energy development.
• ‘A new chapter’: NT town to be returned to traditional owners today  Historic handback of Kakadu town to Mirarr traditional owners. 
• Australian Local Government Association support Mount Isa nuclear weapons ban motion. 
• Australia’s failed nuclear front group bites the dust.

INTERNATIONAL

Nuclear power is in the front line of climate change – and NOT in a good way. Ten reasons climate activists should not support nuclear. Rising sea levels might mean the end for many nuclear power stations. Increasing carbon emissions from uranium mining.

Increasing numbers of nuclear warheads globally.Nuclear fusion’s unlikely future, – too late for climate action.

Old cracked infrastructure – the Florida building collapse – a warning for old cracked nuclear reactors.

June 30, 2021 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina reviews