Antinuclear

A big week in nuclear news

Some bits of good news.   Total Rejuvenation of ‘Dead’ River by a Rural Indian Community Hailed as National Example .   The world’s happiest countries, according to new research.

Climate. Disturbing Sea Level Studies, (Which Threaten All Nuclear Facilities Sited Close To Oceans, Rivers & Lakes).     Searing heatwave hitting Southern and South Eastern Asia.

Nuclear. Folie a tout le monde?   Not just USA, Russia, China –  it seems that everybody is getting into the nuclear weapons race. Former Pentagon official Henry D. Sokolski pronounces  “We don’t know what to do.” Indeed a profoundly true statement. Somebody better think of something, before the omnisuicide takes place – whether it be started by some deliberate military action, – or, more likely, by some unintended glitch, possibly even a trivial one.

Christina notes. Space X rocket – “A successful failure” – George Orwell would love it!         Penny Wong – a huge disappointment to me. At last political folk music is back ! “Killing the Messenger #Free Julian Assange”, by David Rovics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUX2IHm7Aiw

AUSTRALIA. Opposition grows to nuclear submarines in Port Kembla. AUKUS submarines “nation building” says Admiral- No they’re not, says Rex Patrick.      ‘Stupidly dangerous’: AUKUS won’t cause a Chernobyl but experts are still worried.     New Zealand-Australia testiness over citizenship resolved, but nuclear sensitivities remain . 

  Greens support Barngarla people’s opposition to Kimba radioactive waste dump set to open after 2030

Submissions to Senate Inquiry:

•  Dan Monceaux urges the Senate to keep Australia’s legal protections against the hazards of nuclear industrial facilities.

• Refuting the spurious and dishonest nuclear claims of Senator Matt Canavan. 
•  Grusha Leeman – Australia is much too hot for safe nuclear power – let’s not dither with the nuclear distraction.
• Timothy Nott – as a conservative opposes risky, expensive, unsustainable nuclear power. 
• Larry O’Loughlin reminds Senate of the unsolved problem of nuclear wastes, and calls to retain Australia’s nuclear prohibitions.

CULTURE and ARTS. NUCLEAR AFTER-LIFE: FROM TRAGEDY TO FARCE, THE CLAIMS OF A NUCLEAR RENAISSANCE.

ECONOMICS. 

•   Marketing. America is going to sell heaps of Holtec’s Small Nuclear Reactors to Ukraine! US ready to lend Poland $4 billion for nuclear energy plan.
• Globally, taxpayers are on the hook for nuclear accidents. Nuclear is uninsurable and unacceptable.
• Pension funds shun Sizewell C in major blow to Britain’s nuclear ambitions. UK seeks a nuclear energy renaissance – but experts question whether it’s value for money. Rolls Royce shares OK for civil aviation, but investment in small nuclear reactors is risky. A Nuclear Revival Needs More Rules, Not Less.     
• French Winter Power Twice as Pricey as Germany’s on Nuclear Woes. Nuclear Troubles Send French Winter Power Prices Soaring. 
•  Does India have enough insurance coverage for a nuclear disaster? Nuclear liability issues not yet resolved for Jaitapur project: French company EDF.

EDUCATION. The nuclear lobby continues to buy universities- University of Wyoming well and truly bought. With visit of Algerian President France must face up to its nuclear fallout.

EMPLOYMENT. France’s struggle to deliver a second nuclear era.

  ENERGY. Earth Day 2023: A Newly Post-Nuclear Germany vs. California’s Reactor Relapse. Germany’s Energy Revolution (‘Energiewende’) is working. Renewable Energy Is Charging Ahead. Russia’s political and economic winner – its nuclear exports to Western countries.

ENVIRONMENT. Alba MP Neale Hanvey calls for Ministry of Defence to tackle nuclear decontamination at Dalgety Bay. Water shortage at Sizewell: the environmental cost.

ETHICS and RELIGION. Will Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investment managers follow the govt in backing nuclear?.

HEALTH. Radiation. Dogs of war — Chornobyl.    New Zealand’s nuclear test veterans seek recognition.   Inadequate Protection: Current Radiation PPE is Failing to Shield Female Healthcare Workers

LEGAL. EU faces legal action after including gas and nuclear in ‘green’ investments guide.

NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY. Terrestrial Energy’s molten-salt reactor gets over one hurdle – but many more to come -Will it be a lemon?             Russia to set up a small nuclear reactor in the Arctic Republic of Sakha.       Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant will switch back to Russian fuel, from Westinghouse fuel .

OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR. This is why Youth, MPs and ICAN are going to Hiroshima next week. Daniel Ellsberg is still fighting — Beyond Nuclear International.

POLITICS. Germany’s last nukes shut down — Beyond Nuclear. Jonathon Porritt:Germany’s nuclear nous vs UK nuclear nutters. ‘There’s a lot of posturing’: Europe’s nuclear divide grows as one plant opens and three close. Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vows to ‘unwind US empire’. SEN. MARKEY AND REP. LIEU ANNOUNCE LEGISLATION TO LIMIT U.S. PRESIDENT’S POWER TO UNILATERALLY START NUCLEAR WAR. Whaa -at ? – Bill in North Carolina legislature would define nuclear as source of CLEAN energyUS nuclear taxes — the true costs. Excitement in Kent City Council about new nuclear power (now reclassified as “environmentally sustainable”).

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.

• It’s High Time the US Signed a Peace Treaty with North Korea, 
•  S.Korea’s Yoon to meet Biden as doubts grow over nuclear umbrella. Questions about S.Korea-USA ‘ironclad’ commitment lead to impossible nuke solution. 
• US warns Russia not to touch American nuclear technology at Ukrainian nuclear plant. 
•   Germany and Finland: Two sides of the nuclear power coin in Europe. Germany, Poland and others are pushing for new sanctions on Russia’s nuclear energy.
•   French-Russian nuclear relations turn radioactive. 
•  Civil Society Wants Deeds, Not Words  on Nuclear Disarmament: The G7 Should Listen.        G7’s statement on nuclear issue hypocritical and pale. Why the disbandment of NATO is long overdue.
•   Biden willing to damage US economy to counter China – US Treasury.        Chinese Diplomacy Seen as Threat to US ‘Peace,’ ‘Stability’.

SAFETY. New images from inside Fukushima reactor spark safety worry.       Maintenance impacted at Zaporizhzhia, says IAEA.           Hungary to Prolong Nuclear Plant’s Lifetime as Expansion Stalls.       Nuclear life extension plans tested by obsolete components.

SECRETS and LIES. Leaks Reveal Reality Behind U.S. Propaganda in Ukraine.

SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. SpaceX: Should we colonise the solar system?      Environmentalists say Starship failure boosts their concerns.      SpaceX launches most powerful rocket in history in explosive debut – like many first liftoffs.    Starship’s test was a successful failure.                  Warfighting domain: U.S., Polish militaries sign space agreement 

SPINBUSTER. Disarming the persistent myths of a glowing nuclear renaissance. Six war mongering think tanks and the military contractors that fund them.Return to Russia: Crimeans Tell the Real Story of the 2014 Referendum and Their Lives Since — RADIATION FREE LAKELAND.     In Indiana, small nuclear reactors don’t need to be “small” any more.

WASTES. 

•  What now for Germany’s remaining nuclear waste? 
•  France’s radioactive waste management agency Andra wants to increase storage capacity at Cires waste dump . 
•   Fukushima’s fishing industry survived a nuclear disaster – 12 years on, it fears Tokyo’s next move may finish it off. Japan hopes to start discharging Fukushima nuclear wastewater in July. 
•   Scrapping could be next for Russia’s nuclear-powered battle cruiser. Background briefer on nuclear waste in Canada. 
• The Human Dimension to Kazakhstan’s Plutonium Mountain.

WAR and CONFLICT.

•  Russia is deploying nuclear weapons in Belarus – NATO shouldn’t take the bait.      
• NATO to surge troops to Russian border. 26,000 troops from 14 nations: NATO allies join largest Swedish war games in over 25 years . 
•  Germany okays Ukrainian strikes on Russian soil.
•   Largest air exercise in NATO’s 75-year history overlaps with massive combat drills .
•   New member Finland leads team in world’s largest, 38-nation NATO cyber warfare exercise .
•   NATO trains French Foreign Legionaries for war with Russia in the Baltic. 
• NATO conducts large-scale submarine warfare exercise in Norwegian Sea .

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES.

•   NATO partner South Korea poised to be world’s fourth-largest arms exporter. 
•   Impending 50-nation Pentagon/NATO Ukraine war council will focus on warplanes.
•   Pentagon to deliver main battle tanks to Ukraine in weeks.
•   State Department approves upgrade of entire Turkish F-16 fleet to “enhance NATO interoperability”. 
•  Rep. Gallagher Says War Game Shows US Needs to Arm Taiwan ‘To the Teeth’. 
• US military-industrial complex is main beneficiary of fighting Russia in Ukraine – Moscow. 
• Complex safety problems in overhauling USA’s nuclear weapons stockpile, especially plutonium pits.
•   Global military spending increase: Militarism will cost us the earth. Three nuclear superpowers, rather than two, usher in a new strategic era.         ‘It Is Skynet’: Pentagon Envisions Robot Armies in a Decade. The US Has No Plans to Give Up Nuclear Weapons -The Public Needs to Change That.

April 25, 2023 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina reviews