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Nuclear news this week – Australia and more

Coronavirus.    Omicron proves we’re not in control of Covid – ‘only global action can stop this pandemic’
Climate Change.   Heating at the Poles will determine the fate of this life on Earth.
Nuclear. Last week, it was France that dominated nuclear industry news. This week, it’s Russia and Norway.  The news brings together the issues of climate change and of nuclear danger. The melting of the Arctic now enables Russia to forge ahead with its search for mining fossil fuels there, with the result that  Norway is taking a keener than ever interest in monitoring levels of ionising radiation in the region,

AUSTRALIA.

• Submarines. France’s Foreign Minister raises concerns about AUKUS, nuclear submarines, and risks of weapons proliferation. Australian government using a loophole to evade international non-proliferation treaties, to get nuclear submarines? Australia’s Minister for Defense Peter Dutton Mocks ‘Silly’ China Criticism of Nuclear Subs.  K and Australian consultancy firms get together in anticipation of nuclear submarine programme.
• Nuclear waste dump plan, Legislative and regulatory obstacles, highly dangerous wastes – Kimba nuclear dump is still an uncertain project.   Many wheels to turn before that Kimba nuclear dump can go ahead, especially if Labor wins in elections.    Kimba temporary nuclear waste dump plan is unnecessary, now that federal government has approved upgraded storage plan at Lucas Heights.  
•  The people of South Australia are being excluded from the discussion and decisions about the Federal govt’s planned nuclear waste dump.   Kimba residents who oppose the nuclear waste dump plan are not backing down. How the federal government gets around the problem of trucking nuclear waste over Aboriginal land. Federal government spinning the virtues of nuclear waste to Whyalla, Port Lincoln, Ceduna, who had no say in the decision. 
• Uranium mining.Traditional owners of Mulga Rock say Vimy Resources, planning uranium mining, is not listening to Aboriginal people .
•   Labor backs bill forcing charities to reveal donors .

INTERNATIONAL.

 In the next extradition court case for Julian Assange, we can expect the judge there to be very biased against Assange. 

Analysis: Small Modular Reactors Are Decades Away. That Suits the Fossil Lobby Just Fine..

Nuclear risks are laid bare by COVID-19

Omicron Variant: For Better or For Worse?NATO foreign ministers meeting ends with veritable declaration of war.
Nuclear power is a failure – former French Environment Minister.
The nuclear consequences of cyber vulnerabilities.

Fact check: Is nuclear energy good for the climate? 

COP 26 agreement that energy efficiency investments needed for at least half of the investments needed to stall global heating..‘Deluge of plastic waste’: US is world’s biggest plastic polluter

Renewable energy growing at a fast pace, China and India leading the way. 

December 6, 2021 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina reviews