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Nuclear news (and climate) this week

Some bits of good news.      Rock ‘flour’ from Greenland can capture significant CO2, study shows. How Much Would It Cost to Solve Climate Change? And How Would We Pay for It?

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Extreme heat events have now become the new normal.

$528 Billion nuclear clean-up at Hanford Site in jeopardy.

Unlimited money to Ukraine is now allowed, through USA’s “Debt Sealing” arrangement.

EDITORIAL: Government turns a blind eye to lessons from nuclear disaster. Tiny radioactive particles persist indoors years after Fukushima.

Panellists discuss nuclear documentary ‘Atomic Bamboozle’ and warn against return of nuclear power . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUsPt_xUt7I&t=27s

Climate. 1.5 C limit is still feasible. Increasing heat could turn ocean plankton microbes into carbon emitters. Mediterranean now a global heating hotspot. Freak May typhoon shows Philippines is now in constant state of climate emergency. China swelters through record temperatures. And vulnerability of old people to heat waves.

Nuclear.  Well, like the plastic pollution (we’re all swimming in it),  chemical pollution, species extinction, probability of pandemics, overpopulation, the hazards of AI –    nuclear dangers pale into some insignificance beside the now reality of global heating.

Today is World Environment Day. What a joke! What are our illustrious leaders worrying about?  They, the male-dominated  national chiefs are all about their usual preoccupation –  getting ready to wage war against each other. That’s the important thing –  climate change gets a mention in passing – the occasional “motherhood statement”.

Meanwhile – wildfires across many Northern regions, extreme heat, ocean changes ……..  The earth has Bipolar Disorder: and so do we,  – and also RADIO ECOSHOCK

AUSTRALIA. 

•   Julian Assange ignored in “press freedom roundtable” as spies cosy up to Big Media. 
• AUKUS Fissile or Fizzer? Rex Patrick on the trouble with Virginia Class second hand submarines.  Scott Morrison issues blanket denial on nuclear submarine questions.     AUKUS, Congress and Cold Feet.   Australian submariners test positive for drugs.        
•  Crooked company Price Waterhouse Cooper STILL HAS ACCESS TO THE DEFENCE SECRET NETWORK. Defence reveals seven new PwC contracts worth $6m after tax scandal broke. 
•  Dutton’s nuclear plan doesn’t add up. 
•  Draconian: South Australia just topped NSW, Tas, Victoria, Queensland with new laws penalising peaceful protesters.

  ECONOMICS. NRG exits nuclear with sale of South Texas Project stake. Call on ratepayers to fund a study for small nuclear reactors in Clark County. Amidst all the enthusiastic promotion of Small Nuclear Reactors, there’s still the admission that SMRs are simply unaffordable. Dutch government sets many $millions in funding for Nuclear Power, and to encourage investors in nuclear. Nuclear energy just helped Finland slash electric costs by a staggering 75% — so why doesn’t the US follow suit? 3 reasons we are cool on the power source.

 Marketing: Unseemly scramble as makers of small nuclear reactors try to con UK government . 

ENVIRONMENT. Finland’s newest nuclear plant is warming the sea, harming wildlife.

ETHICS and RELIGION. Nonviolent ecumenical movements call for ratification of the Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty.

HEALTH. Female health care workers need better protection from radiation, doctors say.

MEDIA. British police detain journalist Kit Klarenberg, interrogate him about The Grayzone. The Days’: The Story of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster and Netflix’s New Drama. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQkb7fCr2bQ&t=31s Instagram bans Democratic presidential candidate RFK Jr from creating new campaign accounts.

NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY. France’s triple dependence on nuclear fuel . Iran increasing enriched uranium stocks, holding 23 times the limit, says nuclear watchdog. US announces $46 million in funds to eight nuclear fusion companies. Scientists heat nuclear reactor to 100 MILLION degree Celsius – hotter than the SUN (what could possibly go wrong?).

OPPOSITION TO NUCLEAR. Call for International Action against Fukushima Radioactive Water Dumping in the Pacific. Plan to release Fukushima nuclear plant water into sea faces local opposition: “The sea is not a garbage dump. British anti-nuclear campaigners support Canadian counterparts over nuke dump (on nuclear-news.net)

POLITICS. Bill to extend operating period of nuclear plants passes Japan’s Upper House. Greenland refuses to allow exploitation for uranium.  France’s triple dependence on nuclear fue (on nuclear-news.net)

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. France, Germany Dispute Over Nuclear Energy Leaves EU Deadlocked on Renewables.     US cuts data sharing with Russia under New START nuclear deal.     Biden wants to engage Russia on nuclear arms control.    West considers renewed engagement on Iran nuclear crisis. Andrew Little tells nuclear powers New Zealand’s stance isn’t just ‘wishful thinking’.      Dismay in the region over Japan’s plan for nuclear waste water https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12DNoeIsXRY

RADIATION. Tritium found beyond safe limits in treated Fukushima wastewater.

SAFETY. 

• TEPCO faces new crisis over pedestal blow at Fukushima plant. 
• Neither Russia nor Ukraine committed to the IAEA’s 5 principles to protect Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Rafael Grossi to brief UN Security Council on Zaporizhia nuclear situation. Bellona publishes new report on Ukraine’s besieged Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant.
• USA urged not to use bomb-grade uranium in nuclear power experiment. China halts floating nuclear power plan over security fears. 
• Administrative monetary penalty issued to Ontario Power Generation (OPG) for security failures at Pickering and Darlington nuclear stations. 
• Concern over low flying aircraft circling over Hunterston nuclear power station.

SECRETS and LIES. Warren Report Reveals Vast Pentagon-to-Defense Contractor Lobbying Pipeline.

WASTES. Proximity principle – nuclear waste should be stored as near as possible to the point of generation. South Korea experts say more study needed on Japan’s nuclear water plan. Nuclear waste disposal site could be built next to power plant, Estonia.

WAR and CONFLICT. Netanyahu convenes Iran war drill, scorns UN nuclear watchdog.

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. The AUKUS nuclear submarine deal is a nuclear proliferation danger. We are going backwards: we now face a new wave of nuclear weapons manufacturing . Blinken Dismisses Calls for a Ceasefire, Says US Must Build Up Ukraine’s Military. Largest ever Arctic Challenge NATO fighter aircraft exercise begins in Northern Europe.

Disconnecting War from Its Consequences, (cut welfare spending, increase weapons). Protest Disrupts Opening of North America’s Largest Weapons Fair. NATO official calls on China for transparency over nuclear weapons  

June 5, 2023 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina reviews