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The week in nuclear news

Park in Beijing April 2023

Some bits of good news.  Chinese people are living two years longer thanks to ‘war on pollution,’ report says.  From Blacktop to Green: Cities Are Depaving for a Cooler Future. 

TOP STORIES. 

• What’s Behind Talk of a Possible Plea Deal for Assange? 
• Crew sailing ‘original peace boat’ reflect on mission to promote end of nuclear weapons. 
• Revisiting John Pilger’s 2016 Warnings About US Warmongering Against Russia And China. 
• Ukraine’s defeat could mean the end of NATO in its current form.
• Biden’s horse-trading on nuclear technology and fuels is an unprecedented proliferation risk. 
• Taiwan’s ‘clear and present’ spent nuclear fuel danger.

Climate. World meteorologists point to ‘vicious cycle’ of heatwaves and air pollution.

Christina notes. Social media is becoming more influential, while corporate media is more than ever in the grip of powerful government and business interests. Trying to make the best use of Substack. Continuing through the maze of social media.  About how to use Substack – (I recommend reading their instructions). The labyrinth of social media – The promise and the pitfalls.

AUSTRALIA. Educating the US Imperium: Australia’s Mission for Assange.   Lifetime War Abolisher of 2023 award to David Bradbury.  Nuclear shift and net zero feud stir Nationals’ leadership tensions.   Australia’s Navy Pursues Nuclear Submarines and AI-Powered Ghost Sharks.

ARTS and CULTURE. Exhibition for nuclear-free world opens online.

CLIMATE. The Bugey and Saint-Alban sites could reduce their production due to the heat. The Pentagon is the Elephant In the Climate Activist Room.

ECONOMICS. Today Hinkley C contract would cost £180 per MWh around 3xs the cost of offshore wind. “A Good Investment”: The Ukraine War and the US Arms Racket

EMPLOYMENT. Unite urges employer to pay a fair wage and avoid nuclear plant shutdown. Health and safety concerns raised with Dounreay management.

ENERGY. How a nuclear disaster spurred Fukushima to become a renewables leader. Could new nuclear kill one of the world’s most promising offshore windmarkets?

ENVIRONMENT. Disproportionately High Contributions of 60 Year Old Weapons-¹³⁷Cs Explain the Persistence of Radioactive Contamination in Bavarian Wild Boars.

ETHICS and RELIGION. Senators brag that only Ukrainians die in US proxy war against Russia. Act, or die: the climate and nuclear juggernaut.     The Four Billionaires Who Want to Control the Universe.      If Everyone Understood That The US Deliberately Provoked This War.    Japan’s Insane Immoral, Illegal Radioactive Dumping.

HEALTH. Radiation. Important new British Medical Journal article increases our perception of radiation risks.

INDIGENOUS ISSUES. Nuclear Waste Dump Threatens Kichi Sìbì (Ottawa River). The deep roots of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste fight — and why it continues to this day.

LEGAL. RADIOACTIVE TSUNAMIS: NUCLEAR TORPEDO DRONES AND THEIR LEGALITY IN WAR. Japan’s nuclear-contaminated water discharge should consider hazard accountability and compensation mechanisms.        Vinci and Bouygues among six firms fined €31m for bid rigging in nuclear work.        Residents file suit to halt wastewater release from Fukushima plant.

MEDIA. US Intelligence Official: Media Misleading Americans About Ukraine’s Battlefield Success.

PERSONAL STORIES. Ukrainian POWs Say Families of Dead Denied Compensation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn_671tZmLQ

 POLITICS.  Illinois legislators have a lot to learn about nuclear power.   Nuclear energy touted at West Virginia Chamber forum, but key cost, oversight and waste management questions linger. Oregon hasn’t said never to nuclear power, but it should.

Guam nuclear energy ban focus of hearing. Japan announces emergency relief for seafood exporters hit by China’s ban over Fukushima water. Public opinion. USA & NATO responsible for Ukraine war, German & French public say in poll. Ukrainian Dissident Resists NATO’s Proxy War.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. 

• Ukraine war: Kyiv denounces G20 declaration. 
• Poland begins to extradite to Ukraine men who left it after February 24, 2022. 
• Germany, Italy highlight growing European nuclear divide. Eastern European NATO Countries Fear Peace Talks Between Ukraine and Russia. Fyodor Lukyanov: Why the ‘world majority’ sees the Ukraine conflict as an example of declining European and North American power. 
• Why Swiss Neutrality is essential for American national security. 
• The West’s blueprint for goading China was laid out in Ukraine.

PROTESTS. South Korea: Mass protests continue against Fukushima nuclear waste dumping.

SAFETY. IAEA warns of nuclear safety threat as combat spikes near Ukraine power plant. Ukraine war realises predictions of nuclear power plant threat, says Leicester civil safety expert.    Nuclear reactors: Malaysia lacks maintenance culture. Generators of Kudangulam nuclear power plant stuck in sea.

SECRETS and LIES. Russian hackers suspected to have leaked sensitive UK military and defence material on the dark web including information about nuclear submarine base and chemical weapons lab.    Ukraine wasted $17 million on faulty drones – media.

URANIUM. Does Europe need Niger’s uranium?

WASTES. UK and Japan’s governments funding research on problem of nuclear waste. Plutonium. UK / ‘No Easy Options’ For Disposal Of Plutonium Stockpile, Says Report

WAR and CONFLICT. America is not worried about the huge losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine . Nation-States as “Business Models”: Ukraine as Another Neoliberal Privatization Exercise. Scott Ritter: A comprehensive Ukrainian defeat is the only possible outcome of its conflict with Russia. NATO isn’t able to help Ukraine win. Ukraine – health care women compulsory military service.      Counter-offensive threatened by slow Western aid – Zelenskyy.

NATO Chief Openly Admits Russia Invaded Ukraine Because Of NATO Expansion. Slow mindless grind towards nuclear Armageddon?

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. 

• Saudi Arabia could build a nuclear bomb, experts say – and the US might help it. 
• US to Arm Ukraine With Toxic Depleted Uranium Ammunition. Depleted Uranium Won’t Bring Peace to Ukraine. Russia says US supplying depleted-uranium shells to Ukraine could lead to war between nuclear powers. Ukraine used cluster munitions against civilians – Human Rights Watch. 
• 22 Years of Drone Warfare and No End in Sight.
•  Ukraine’s ‘Biggest Arms Supplier’ Orchestrated 2014 Maidan Massacre, Witnesses Say. Is Ukraine’s new long-range missile technology bringing us closer to WW3?
• Russia warns return of US nuclear weapons to UK would be seen as escalation.
•  Senators raise concerns over US missing nuclear submarine target. 
• US Air Force tests nuclear-capable long-range missile.

September 11, 2023 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina reviews