Nuclear news – week to 22 February
The news about events in Ukraine is just coming in. Vladimir Putin would have us believe that it is at last the end of the 8 years of war in the two self-proclaimed rebel republics of Donetsk and Luhansk. But it could be the beginning of something worse.
Russia-Ukraine live updates: United States and UK expected to announce sanctions against Kremlin
Some bits of good news: Replacing environmental despair with hope and action ECUADOR’S SUPREME COURT: NATURE WINS OVER MINING .
AUSTRALIA.
Nuclear. Conservation Council of South Australia CEO Craig Wilkins discusses the Nuclear Waste Dump at Kimba. The writing is on the wall ‒ Kimba radioactive concerns move to South Australia’s political centre. Why nuclear submarines? Early closure of coal plant, battery and renewable developments – all spell the end for nuclear power hopes in Australia .
Holmes à Court: Climate independents offer chance to “fix Australia”.
Extreme weather and temperatures sound alarm on climate change
INTERNATIONAL.
The Ukraine Crisis Could Trigger a Nuclear Catastrophe – Tilman Ruff Media forecasting on Russian invasion is just like religious cult leaders predicting the apocalypse.
Western Democracies Have Mutated Into Propagandists for War and Conflict. Headlines that cause wars.
Antarctica and Greenland’s polar ice shelves are melting from below
Public Opposition to Nuclear Power.
Terrifying “nuke map” reveals danger zone if nuclear bomb dropped on YOUR city.
The supposed new rise in nuclear power and the uranium business is doubtful!
Reality check: The green inflation myth
Highest Number of Reactor Closures in a Decade.
ANTARCTICA. Antarctica will likely set a record for lowest sea ice extent this year
UKRAINE. Russian President Vladimir Putin orders Russian forces to ‘maintain peace’ in eastern Ukraine‘s two breakaway regions. Nuke Power at the Brink of Bankruptcy, War, Apocalypse. Standoff ending, Ukraine and Russia both claim victory? Today’s Crisis Over UkraineUkrainian Pacifists Say US, NATO and Russia Share Responsibility to Avoid War. ACURA ViewPoint. Ambassador suggested that Ukraine might drop its bid for NATO membership – but he was quickly corrected. UK trained Ukraine military, including a thousand-strong neo-Nazi unit. Aspects of the Ukraine crisis and some suggested solutions for de-escalation.
JAPAN.
- I just wanted to live a normal life – Akiko Morimatsu.
- IAEA ‘will not approve or oppose’ release of treated water from Fukushima plant, ‘responsibility of each country’. UN to review Japan’s plan to release Fukushima water into Pacific
- Where to in 2045? Contaminated Soil from the Nuclear Power Plant Accident: Current Status of Interim Storage Facilities in Fukushima. 11 years after the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, residents angered by the retreat from decontamination of the entire area.
- Legal action on Fukushima nuclear disaster’s impact on health.
- . Latest look inside Fukushima ruins show mounds of melted nuclear fuel . Robots used to remove Fukushima’s highly radioactive used nuclear fuel, but they’re still problematic
- . Shadow of Hiroshima” at Fukushima nuclear power plant: Animation depicts history of nuclear power.
- Plutonium problems won’t go away. Brief summary of Engineering and Technology’s fine article on UK’s plutonium problem.
- Should the Taishan nuclear plant shutdown worry UK regulators?
- Update on the status of Britain’s Rolls Royce Small Nuclear Reactor project. Mini-reactor for Highlands -too “high cost and high risk” says Scottish MP Maree Todd.
- Bradwell nuclear project -dead in the water? – partly due to work of BANNG (Blackwater Against New Nuclear Group).
- Time is running out to save the Severn Estuary. Severn Estuary – internationally significant fish nursery – threatened by Hinkley radioactive mud. Legal challenge to license for EDF to dump radioactive mud in the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary. Super Furry Animals call out alleged nuclear mud dumping at Hinkley Power Station. The case for Saving the Severn Estuary from the dumping of radioactive wastes.
- New report: Nuclear waste’s shifting sands on the lakeland fringe.
- Lord Truscott questioned the idea that a thermonuclear war with Russia would be an ”unwelcome outcome”.
- Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament marks 40th anniversary of Nuclear Free Wales Declaration.
- Julian Assange appeals to the Supreme Court.
CANADA. Michigan Senators Oppose Canadian Nuclear Waste Site Near Great Lakes. MPs and groups oppose hearings to license Canada’s first permanent radioactive waste dump. Proposed license for the NSDF includes no enforceable requirements for “waste characterization” — Concerned Citizens of Renfrew County and Area. In-Depth: Dangers of Burying Nuclear Waste.
USA.
- Damage limitation and US nuclear strategy . Are You Ready for the Big New War? You Damn Well Better Be.
- Nuclear power doesn’t belong in the Green New Deal. ‘Serious problems’ with NuScale’s proposed small nuclear reactors .
- USA’s Department of Energy (DOE) will give $6 Billion in a program to to stop uneconomic nuclear reactors from closing down.
- Beleagured Vogtle nuclear project delayed yet again.
- Opposition to Holtec dumping nuclear waste into Cape Cod Bay.
- Maryland Couple Conspired to Sell Nuclear Secrets.
- New USA Federal Report Warns of Accelerating Impacts From Sea Level Rise.
IRAN. Why the Iran nuclear talks have stalled.
ISRAEL. The Iran Nuclear Deal Isn’t a Threat, and Israel Must Find a New Approach.
RUSSIA. Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov informs UN chief about Russia’s talks with NATO on security guarantees.
EUROPE. Any missile launch may be perceived as nuclear strike amid tensions. EU greenwashing nuclear power: Short sighted & counterproductive. Europe’s nuclear power plants will need investments of EUR 500 Billion, so they need to be labelled ‘green” ! The EU’s ‘green taxonomy’ classification system – no longer fit for purpose, if nuclear and gas are included.
FRANCE . French government to subsidise EDF nuclear power company by another €2.1bn, to prop up its failing share price. French utility EDF will check auxiliary cooling circuits, or RRAs, at its 56 domestic reactors, after faults found. No end in sight as the French nuclear industry reduces its output.
BULGARIA. Nuclear project with Russian reactors shakes Bulgarian politics.
NORTH KOREA. Radiation fears after earthquakes at North Korea nuclear test site.
INDIA. Tamil Nadu people’s lives are more important than Kudankulam nuclear reactors: PMK. Concern in Tamil Nadu over spent nuclear fuel storage at Kudankulam site .
BELGIUM. ENGIE Doubles Down On Renewables And Reaffirms Closure Of Belgian Nuclear Industry.
GERMANY. How dare Germany oppose USA over nuclear power !
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