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The week in nuclear news

Nuclear Winter Webinar 7 April

https://beyondnuclear.org/nuclear-winter-webinar/ The Samuel Lawrence Foundation is hosting its “First Friday” Zoom Event at 11:30 AM PST (2:30 PM EST), featuring Brian Toon, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder on:

 “Nuclear Winter: The Environmental Consequences of a Nuclear Exchange.” The event is moderated by Professor Paul Dorfman, Chair of Nuclear Consulting Group, University of Sussex, UK. Professor Toon is a world renowned researcher on the environmental and climate consequences of nuclear war. Even a limited conflict between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan, an exchange of 100 nuclear weapons, would have global climate changing consequences. Click here to register for the April 7th webinar.

Christina notes. “Clean” “Renewable” nuclear power – the PERSISTENT LIES.    Corruption in the nuclear industry.

Once again –   this is miles too long. And also – sorry – too much about Australia.   But, it’s a pivotal time – this AUKUS-nuclear submarine thing.  And not just for Australia – as 3 anglophone nations team up in spreading nuclear weapons-grade technology for the first time – to a non-nuclear nation.  All done – not with the consent of parliaments and people – just done with a stroke by the big boys. And all setting up for the next proxy war, Australia in the lead role?  – against China.

AUSTRALIA.  Australia Isn’t A Nation, It’s A US Military Base With Kangaroos, and happy to have Julian Assange imprisoned. Julian Assange – when “quiet diplomacy” means diddly squat. Inglorious inertia: The Albanese Government and Julian Assange.

The Road to War: latest film by David Bradbury. Fight For Country – the story of the Jabiluka Blockade (Pip Starr) – anniversary 1 April 23 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUYOwA7qwGY

AUKUS – nuclear submarines. Omigawd! Nuclear zealot Jonathon Mead is to get his own little government department nuclear supergroup.    AUKUS: Mirage or reality? AUKUS Exists To Manage The Risks Created By Its Existence.  China’s new warning to Australia over nuclear submarine deal.     Unions question Labor over AUKUS nuclear submarines. Trade Unions ACTU digs in on nuclear-free policy in headache for Labor over Aukus subs.         East coast nuclear submarine base decision likely to be made after next federal election. The three big questions Australia’s leaders must answer about the Aukus deal.        Australian government always knew that Australia would end up with AUKUS nuclear wastes – they just didn’t let on to the public. AUKUS Gets Awkward Down Under. 

• Has the USA captured Australia’s media? 
• To sign or not to sign. Australia’s dilemma over the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.              
• Letter to the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), dispelling its deceptions about nuclear medicine and nuclear wastes.   
• Community trust requires public discussion and transparency.

Submissions to the Senate:

• Jan Wu –  renewables are very suitable for Australia, not dirty nuclear power.
• Alan Hewett – Nuclear power could only delay Australia’s transition to clean renewable energy. 
• Michele Kwok – nuclear power is not clean -it’s polluting at every stage. 
• Jean M Christie – nuclear power is expensive, polluting, and too slow to be of any use to Australians. 
• Diana Rickard – Australia’s nuclear bans reflect public rejection of the nuclear industry, and support for clean renewables. 
• Helen Bradbury –nuclear power not only useless against climate change, but also becomes a serious risk in extreme weather events. 
• Name withheld – exposes the fake charity group behind the pro nuclear propaganda.
• Timothy Clifford – Australia has the opportunity to become a clean energy superpower – nuclear is an unviable distraction.
• Name withheld – a trenchant critique of Australia’s pro nuclear fringe.

CLIMATE. Climate change amplifies existing threats to national security.

CIVIL LIBERTIES. UN sounds alarm over Ukraine church crackdown.

EMPLOYMENT. Nuclear skills shortage in Britain .

ENERGY. Renewable generation surpassed coal and nuclear in the U.S. electric power sector in 2022,

ENVIRONMENT. EPA finds radioactive contamination in Missouri landfill Sizewell C permits approved despite concerns over potential mass fish deaths. Campaigners claim permit change at Hinkley Point would kill billions of fish. South Korea to keep Fukushima seafood ban despite thaw with Japan.

HEALTH. Exposure to ionizing radiation can increase risk of heart disease. Cancer as Weapon: Sowing Battlefields With Depleted Uranium.

INDIGENOUS ISSUES. An obnoxious clause in Canada’s draft Act for Implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)

MEDIA. Nuclear winter webinar – 7 April. Covering (Up) Antiwar Protest in US Media.

NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY. Small Modular Nuclear Reactors may not be the holy grail for energy security, net zero. Small nuclear reactors – the global hype and hoax continues, especially in Europe.         North Korea May Be Close to Completing New Nuclear Reactor: 38 North.          No, Nuclear Energy Won’t Save Us.

OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR. Over 100 Canadian organisations oppose funding for small modular nuclear reactors in federal budget.    Time to revive Scotland’s campaign – Resist the Atomic Menace.       Opponents pack Pilgrim Nuclear meeting as potential discharge of radioactive water looms.

POLITICS.  USA CONGRESSIONAL EFFORT TO END ASSANGE PROSECUTION IS UNDERWAY.     

• Missouri House votes to ease restrictions on nuclear power plant construction costs. Illinois Senate votes to lift nuclear construction ban.
• Nuclear Power Classified as Environmentally Sustainable in UK’s Green Taxonomy. The Scottish Greens condemn UK Government plans for a major investment in nuclear power. 
• What nuclear disarmament leadership should look like

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. 

• Nuclear Tug of War Intensifies in Brussels. EU agrees to a compromise on nuclear energy amid French pressure. Nuclear row threatens EU deal on renewable energy goals. Paris plots response to EU Commissioner von der Leyen’s ‘unfortunate’ comments on nuclear. 
• Germany criticizes Russian role in French nuclear fuel plant. 
• AUKUS is ‘going against’ Pacific nuclear free treaty – Cook Islands leader. Aukus subs deal firms China support for Asean nuclear weapon-free zone. 
• Top UN official urgently calls for de-escalating nuclear tensions over Belarus. 
• The cost of being wrong. 
• Inside Saudi Arabia’s Global Push for Nuclear Power.

SAFETY. 

• Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia power plant: How prepared is Europe for a future nuclear disaster? IAEA head warns on danger of intensified fighting near Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. IAEA nuclear safety chief at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station, UN watchdog ditches Ukrainian nuclear plant safety zone scheme. 
• Fire on Trident nuclear submarine at Scots navy base prompts safety concern for nearby locals. 
• Concern about Turkey’s Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant. 
• France’s nuclear company planning to extend the life of its creaky old reactors..

SECRETS and LIES. CIA’s surveillance methods on Assange revealed.

SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. US-NATO proxy war in Ukraine utilises space technology. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5az_t0YxgmQ&t=1s

SPINBUSTER. 

• ARMY PUTTING ‘OUTRAGEOUS SPIN’ ON DEPLETED URANIUM SCIENCE.    
• Pentagon fake news about Chinese fast breeder reactors.    
•  “Clean, clean, clean!”-says Canada’s budget – But still, nuclear power is still dirty. 
• Elon Musk is remaking Twitter into a climate denier sanctuary. 
• AUKUS deal keeping Julian Assange behind bars. 
• Welsh anti-nuclear groups warn on the nuclear lobbyists behind the new Freeport bid for Anglesea..

WASTES. Moltex vows to help Canada recycle its nuclear waste. Critics say the byproducts would be even worse. TEPCO visually confirms melted nuclear fuel at Fukushima plant. Decommissioning reactors: Germany will complete nuclear phase-out as planned but technology’s risks remain – env min. Divers enter Sellafield’s nuclear pool for first time in 65 years. Pilgrim Nuclear owner agrees to wastewater study, but says it won’t pay for it.

WAR and CONFLICT. THE LAST THING THE UKRAINIAN PEOPLE NEED IS DEPLETED URANIUM.

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. 

• Russia Calls Out ‘Nuclear Weapons Hypocrisy’: US Has Tactical Nukes In 5 Non-Nuclear Weapon States. 
• Number of usable nuclear warheads increased in 2022 — report. 
• Nuclear Weapons Ban Monitor 2022 is out. 
• No Country for Nuclear Madmen. 
• Actual storage of nuclear weapons in Belarus is likely to be a long time away. 
• Canada’s “peaceful” nuclear program intimately involved in selling Plutonium For American Bombs. 
• Germany, Britain deliver more battle tanks to Ukraine . South Korea to provide Poland with 1,000 tanks as well as howitzers. Bankrolled by EU and U.S., Poland to produce, ship 100 armored vehicles to Ukraine . U.S. to deliver 800 Hellfire missiles to Poland . Poland, Slovakia deliver first MiG warplanes to Ukraine . 
• China warns of World War III with ‘nuclear sword hanging over our heads’ over Putin’s plan to send nukes to Belarus.

April 4, 2023 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina reviews