Nuclear news week to 18 January
The undersea volcano near Tonga is bad enough. But one wonders what would be the effect of disrupting nuclear wastes undersea, whether they be from atomic bomb testing, or from the dumping of nuclear trash.
Coronavirus. It’s not that I have given up on studying this: it’s just that the news, and changes, come thick and fast, and we all live in uncertainty.
Climate change. It’s all happening. Keep up with the latest at Radio Ecoshock – Arctic Will Change Your Life. Nitrous Oxide, Sea Ice, & Western Fires.
Nuclear. This week, Ukraine stalemate, and the same old issues drag on – Europe’s struggle to depict nuclear as ”green”, UK’s struggle to finance the nuclear industry, France’s struggle with old, (and some cracking) reactors. And Fukushima’s crisis springs eternal.
Some bits of good news. By the way, – biggest response ever this newsletter has received on any subject – about the butterfly story last week! Some wins for the planet in 2021. Nice stories about animals – including several ”non-extinctions”. Beavers Saved From Euthanasia Transform and Replenish Rivers in the Utah Desert.
AUSTRALIA.
Nuclear. . AUKUS an unwelcome guest at the table of nuclear disarmament.
In Western Australia, first Cameco’s Kintyre uranium project was disallowed, now Toro’s uranium project also rejected. Toro Energy misses deadline to start work at Wiluna uranium mine
Climate. Federal Labor pledges climate resilience funding, Nationals pledge allegiance to coal — RenewEconomy
It’s not just WA: Sydney and Melbourne will see dangerous 50C temperatures soon enough.
South Australia breaks record, runs for a week on renewable energy
Charities are sick of fighting off attacks by the Morrison government
INTERNATIONAL
Is US extradition inevitable for Julian Assange? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aw4Yz0Va1c
In 2022, nuclear power’s future looks grimmer than ever. Nuclear: economically unsustainable, inherently dangerous and absolutely unfeasible as a solution to climate change. A hopeless pursuit? National efforts to promote small modular nuclear reactors and revive nuclear power. Small modular reactors (SMRs) offer no hope for nuclear energy.
Climate change crisis ranked as the biggest threat facing the global economy ahead of wars and pandemics. The environmental impact of emissions from space launches: a comprehensive review .
The Guardian view on The Green Planet: verdant and necessary
We study ocean temperatures. The Earth just broke a heat increase record.
Global heating linked to early birth and damage to babies’ health, scientists find
Stoltenberg: NATO ready for war in Europe.
Horrors of Hiroshima, a reminder nuclear weapons remain global threat.
ARCTIC. Climate change destroying homes across the Arctic. Fieldwork in the High Arctic found cataclysmic impact of climate change happening 70 years ahead of what the scientific models expected.
UKRAINE. The media downplays Ukraine’s ties to Nazism, as they promote weapons sales, and war against Russia. This is how I feel about the Ukraine crisis.
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