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Australian nuclear news this week

News – oh dear – it’s all too much. And a kind of lethargy sets in, in this uncertain time of pandemic.  I’ve started to type in green bold just those items that I selected as particularly interesting.  

The big news this week is the Afghanistan story.This  USA -led futile military adventure comes to an end. We now prepare for the next one, as weapons industry leaders  salivate in anticipation –  will it be against Iran, North Korea, China …?

With the delta variant – the pandemic rages on.Climate change news and views continue, with fires and floods, and following the IPCC Report.  I’m finding that only Radio Ecoshock and climate scientist Paol Beckwith seem  to put this all together, clearly.   And someone raised the heretical suggestion that we should give up the system of endless economic growth via consumption.

Some bits of good news –   Rainforest agriculture brings a climate-friendly system to Honduras and other South American nations.  English moor transformed into ‘giant sponge’ to absorb CO2.

AUSTRALIA. Climate change has already hit Australia. Unless we act now, a hotter, drier and more dangerous future awaits, IPCC warns. 

• . Seven vital questions about Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) and its nuclear wastes.  Resources Minister Keith Pitt to declare Napandee farm, South Australia, as nuclear waste dump site.  Resource Minister Pitt’s intention to declare site for the National Radioactive Waste Management Facility. Minister Pitt – an expert in ”weasel words”, obscuring the truth about nuclear waste    . Labor Party – State and National opinions on the plan for nuclear waste dump at Kimba, South Australia. Radioactive Dump ~ call for submissions ~ open until October 22nd 2021     
•   ”Long Half-Life’‘ – Professor Ian Lowe on Australia’s nuclear dilemma. 
• The new push for a nuclear Australia.  Despite Australia’s laws prohibiting nuclear development, Angus Taylor signs up for development of small nuclear reactors with UK. National Party renews its push for nuclear energy, wants to change the Environment Protection Act. Senator Matt Canavan all for nuclear energy; economists are not so sure. Senator Matt Canavan, and MP Ken O’Dowd ”happy to have a nuclear power station” in their backyard – (Gladstone Queensland)..
•  . Uranium mining and high cancer rates in Aboriginals around Ranger mine.
• Defence hides Australia’s weapon sales to Israel amid war crimes investigation into Palestine, 

INTERNATIONAL.

The War On Afghanistan Was A $2 Trillion Scam. U.S, costs to date for the war in Afghanistan  in $ billions, 2001-2021.      How War Profiteers Manufacture Consent. 

NO SUPPORT for NUCLEAR in the new report from Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Urgency of the IPCC climate report makes it clear that new nuclear is not the answer. If nuclear power is adopted as the way ahead, the climate fight will be lost.

World careering towards irreversible climate impacts, top scientists warn.

A Day in the Death of British Justice – the case of Julian Assange.

The real photos of the Hiroshima bombing tell the story – no need for fictionalised ones.JAPAN. Nagasaki remembers the atomic bomb, Olympic officials refuse to allow a minute’s silence. UN pledges full support to Nagasaki voices fuelling ‘powerful global movement’ against nuclear arms. Japanese teenager calls for nuke-free world at U.N. disarmament confab .

August 16, 2021 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina reviews