To 7 August – nuclear news this week
A bit of good news – The largest landfill in Latin America has now been restored into a thriving mangrove ecosystem.
TOP STORIES
Wilfred Burchett: The Atomic Plague,
Those who will fire the nuclear weapons are thoroughly trained to have no hesitation. We must stop them.
US rejects Australian plea to drop Assange case.
UK government must come clean, to tax-payers and consumers, on the financial figures before signing up to new nuclear programme. ( Full report. See in particular paras 41 -44)
Senate passes $886 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA): No audits necessary.
Aggressive U.S. Push for Military Supremacy in the Arctic Could Trigger Nuclear War.
Climate. A Vital Atlantic Ocean System Could Collapse Sooner Than Previously Thought . The Chilling Truth: Antarctica Just Lost an Ice Mass the Size of My Country .
Nuclear. Well – It’s been THAT memorable week – the 78th anniversary. I can’t add to the many fine stories this week. Except to note that all nuclear-weapons nations are sticking to their policies, and the nuclear industry is enthusiastically propagandising -because we all know that small nuclear reactors etc have nothing to do with military use, don’t we?.
Christina notes. Forget Oppenheimer. The real nuclear hero is Joseph Rotblat. The persecution of Wilfred Burchett and Julian Assange .
AUSTRALIA.
- Australian MPs Blast Blinken Over Assange.
- Building for War: The US Imperium’s Top End Spend. USA flexes its belligerent muscles in Western Australia, showing off its nuclear submarines. AUKUS, Australia and the drive to war. A Client State. U.S. aggression against China ignores lessons of Hiroshima. The Day Australian Sovereignty Died.
- Parramatta Labor Party’s FEC unanimous anti-AUKUS motion.
- Nuclear issues turn Radio-Active dial up.
CLIMATE. Nuclear war would be more devastating for Earth’s climate than cold war predictions – even with fewer weapons. What you won’t learn about in Oppenheimer: the potential effects of a nuclear winter.
ECONOMICS. How the “Nuclear Renaissance” Robs and Roasts Our Earth. First new US nuclear reactor in 3 decades may well also be its last. Nuclear power’s landmark project stumbles across the finish line. The unpalatable facts of the costs to consumers of electricity from new nuclear power. The High Costs and Failures of Nuclear Reactors.
ENERGY. The digital data industry is an energy-and-water-guzzling climate disaster. For Scotland, energy is our best argument for independence.
EMPLOYMENT. Hinkley Point scaffolders begin industrial action over pay and shift patterns.
ENVIRONMENT. Environment Agency allows Hinkley Point C permit variation to remove fish deterrent system. Nuclear Weapons: Devastation Inside the U.S. Do right by the whales. Water. Water Wars: Cooling the Data Centres. Environment Agency grants contentious Hinkley C water discharge permit.
ETHICS and RELIGION. Scared to Death! Oppenheimer and the threat of nuclear destruction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xthzy1PxTA&t=5s
HISTORY. Western Media Has Falsely Presented the Donbas’ Drive For Autonomy as Being Instigated By Moscow.
LEGAL. Judge tosses charges against executive in South Carolina nuclear debacle, but case may not be over.
MEDIA. Like ‘the tolling of a distant temple bell’, Ibuse Masuji’s Black Rain remembers the horrors of Hiroshima and warns of the inhumanity of war. ‘Barbenheimer’ highlights U.S. ignorance of nuclear reality. Greg Mitchell on “Oppenheimer” & Why Hollywood Is Still Afraid of the Truth About the Atomic Bomb. Why no Hollywood movie on Nagasaki A Bombing? Humans Might Be About to Break the Ocean? Don’t Stop the Presses.
OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Campaigners against Sizewell C nuclear plan welcome call for financial clarity from Science, Innovation and Technology Committee.
Together Against Sizewell environmental group angry at the coming destruction of marine life, as acoustic fish deterrent will not be installed at Hinkley Point C nuclear. Pacific anti-nuclear groups condemn Fiji’s Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka for backing Fukushima wastewater stance.
PERSONAL STORIES. Oppenheimer’s nuclear fallout: How his atomic legacy destroyed my world.
POLITICS.
- Why The Niger Coup Has Sparked Concerns About Nuclear Power.
- BRING IT HOME-Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
- UK has no coherent plan to develop nuclear energy . Ambition alone will not build UK nuclear power. Another kick in the teeth for UK taxpayers as EDF pockets another £170m of public money for their Sizewell C White Elephant. Ministers diverted £136m from electric car fund to Sizewell C nuclear project despite infrastructure concerns.
- Sweden’s Nuclear Power Ambitions Quashed.
- Why is Ontario Government bent on building a new nuclear reactor, at a much greater cost than solar or wind technologies? New Brunswick Power is kicking the can down the road while the planet burns. ADVANCE Act on nuclear sends us backwards.
POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.
- Requiem for NATO’s Nightmare – the Vilnius summit. Mexican president urges end to ‘irrational’ Ukraine war, wants Russia at peace talks. CIA Director Affirms U.S. Regime Change Strategy in Russia in Address at British Foundation.
- United Nations wants to resurrect a global disarmament mechanism last used in the 1980s.
- Saudi Arabia could convert civilian nuclear to military, Israeli expert warns.
- Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is reiterating his call for the case against Julian Assange to be dropped.
PROTESTS. Protests held in Tokyo against nuclear water discharge,
SAFETY. UN nuclear watchdog finds no explosives at Zaporizhzhia plant. Russia’s Kola nuclear power plant turns 50. That is not necessarily something to celebrate. Non-compliant fire program halts decommissioning of Whiteshell Nuclear Laboratories.
URANIUM. Niger stops uranium and gold export to France.
WASTES.
- Niger’s 20 million tonnes of radioactive waste.
- The nuclear arms race’s legacy: Toxic contamination, staggering cleanup costs and a culture of government secrecy.
- Sellafield seeks partners for £4.8bn nuclear decommissioning works. UK’s Radioactive Waste Management holds meetings in Lincolnshire, seeking a location for nuclear waste dump
WAR and CONFLICT When facts cut through the fog of war. Is the US preparing to dump the proxy war in Ukraine so it can start another in Taiwan? Nuclear catastrophe threat is ‘great and growing’, warn over 100 top medical journals. Veterans, descendants of nuclear testing era urged to apply for British medal.
Decades Later, the U.S. Government Called Hiroshima and Nagasaki ‘Nuclear Tests’, Japan marks 78th anniversary of US atomic bombing on Hiroshima, calls nuclear deterrence ‘folly’. Japan condemns Russia nuclear threat on Hiroshima anniversary.
WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES
The Sky’s the Limit on Nuclear Weapons Spending, But What Does It Really Get Us? US cluster munitions will bring more pain and death to Donbass civilians, and Washington doesn’t care. Kiev’s broken record: no matter what advanced weaponry the West sends, there is no magic wand to conjure a Ukrainian victory. Military Initiative by Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States (AUKUS) is Another Major Step in Prospective War on China. How Have Nuclear Weapons Evolved Since Oppenheimer and the Trinity Test?
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