Nuclear news – Australia, France and more

Nuclear. The interesting thing right now is France’s struggle to get Europe to agree that nuclear power is ”clean” and ”green”. The background to this is that France’s nuclear industry is in a pretty bad state. Debts, scandals and safety problems. Most reactors getting near their use-by date. Strangely, the prestigious and independent Court of Audits has reported that nuclear power has a dubious future, but President Macron is ignoring that report, and promising a global nuclear revival, led by France.

Coronavirus – it’s all still happening.

Climate: COP 26 is over – but global heating is all still happening, too.

Some bits of good news: The EU drafted legislation to tackle deforestation. The UK’s largest urban rewilding project was approved. Refugees in Cameroon Have Turned aTreeless Desert Camp Into a Thriving Forest.

AUSTRALIA.

New files expose Australian govt’s betrayal of Julian Assange and detail his prison torment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I185pwCWNo8

Australian TV blatantly advertises weapons sales, in absurd claims about China invading Australia. Morrison’s tactless belligerence towards China, while USA moves to mend relationship to China. Australian Parliament should urgently review the potentially dangerous AUKUS deal.
The endless civil war among conservatives over nuclear power. Renewable technology is highly suitable for Australia – compared to the severe wastes problem of nuclear power.
Australia needs independent Inquiry on nuclear production and wastes. Kimba nuclear dump plan is not supported by facts. Kimba, South Australia, as a nuclear ”sacrifice zone”. Kimba Consultative Committee draft Minutes reveal what a mess the Federal Radioactive Waste dump project is in.

INTERNATIONAL

The consumerism that destroys life is also the cause of the environmental emergency.

The 2015 Paris climate agreement – a weak ‘treaty’, but it is working up to a point. Nuclear energy: a distraction on the road to climate solutions.

Global agreements against the dumping of nuclear waste into the world’s oceans.

America’s relentless pursuit of Australian Julian Assange is a threat to any journalist who might expose a USA massacre of civilians.

Gorbachev: claims that nuclear weapons guarantee peace are a delusion. The elimination of nuclear weapons a moral imperative – Vatican. New film: The ‘Mothers of the Revolution’ Who Stared Down Nuclear Weapons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWirc-uWGgQ Voices for a World Free of Nuclear Weapons Takes a New Approach With Informative Videos for Children and Young Adults.

Low dose radiation has its medical benefits, but has harmful effects on the immune system.

Use Less Stuff Day-Thursday November 18th

ANTARCTIC. Antarctic ice sheet changed alarmingly quickly in past – and may be happening again now.