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Nuclear news – week to 25 September

A bit of good news. Water voles are back in the swim of things on the River Ver.

TOP STORIES. 

A powerful minority makes the nuclear decisions, in a strategy of concealment. 

Alarmed by Risk of Nuclear Escalation among Major Powers, Speakers in General Assembly Warn Growing Distrust, Divisions Are Driving Multilateral System towards Dysfunction.

Andreyeva Bay cleanup slows to a snail’s pace since invasion of Ukraine. In 2023, the risky part of Andreyeva Bay nuclear cleanup starts. 

We’re Being Prepared For The Ukraine War To Last Into The 2030s. 

Top nuclear experts urge Biden to not allow Saudi uranium enrichment in mega-deal.Climate. Introducing Southern Frontlines – news on the climate crisis from Latin America and the Caribbean

Nuclear. So much stuff about impending war – it’s almost exhausting, but little concern for the soldiers,

On the strictly nuclear front –  I’m amazed that the Western media can go on about nuclear submarines, and pretty much ignore their waste problem. The Russian experience – Andreyeva Bay – should give everyone pause to worry about this.

Christina notes. The harrowing truth about the war in Ukraine.    Wonderful nuclear submarines!! Let’s not spoil the joy by thinking about their WASTES.

AUSTRALIA. Mission to Free Assange: Australian Parliamentarians in Washington. South Asian leader slams AUKUS pact. The push for nuclear energy in Australia is driven by delay and denial, not evidence. Push for nuclear energy ignores glaring problem.

Nuclear too costly, too slow, too risky for Australia. Modelling shows estimated cost of Peter Dutton’s nuclear energy plan. Bowen demolishes case expensive for nuclear power.  ‘Build renewables, not nuclear’: energy execs reject reactors.

Australia must do more than pay lip service to nuclear disarmament.  Let’s Label #USPropaganda – Call it out.-  Our crews at Boeing and disrupting General Mick Ryan.   

CLIMATE. Elephant In The Climate Room: Rocket Launches.

ECONOMICS. 

• Bidenomics: Millions to Rebuild Maui, Billions for Ukraine. 
• UK launches search for private investment in Sizewell C nuclear project. UK’s Sizewell Nuclear Investors to Face Security Checks. Sizewell nuclear investment may prove radioactive.War 
• Profiteers Are A Sign Of A Profoundly Sick Society. 
• Fukushima: China’s seafood imports from Japan down 67% in August.

ENVIRONMENT. Water. Cooling system at Zaporizhzhya stabilised – but military action in the area continues

ETHICS and RELIGION. On The Idiotic Notion That It’s Brave To Support Nuclear Brinkmanship In Ukraine. Pope says world on brink of nuclear war like 1962 Cuban missile crisis.

HEALTH. Mental health. The Ukrainian Morale in the Battlefield: A Snapshot

HISTORY. Our nuclear legacy and the weight of history.

LEGAL. Sizewell C seeks outside investment as Together Against Sizewell C Limited (TASC) granted permission to appeal against the project. Campaigners win permission to appeal against Sizewell C Nuclear Power Station ruling. Nuclear bomb test veterans relaunch legal action.

MEDIA. New York Time’s Incredibly Low Bar for Labeling Someone ‘Pro-Putin’.

NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY. Bill Gates’ nuclear firm Terrapower fears falling behind in Small Nuclear Reactor race.

OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Floating for Peace on the Golden Rule. Time to arrest deployment of nuclear weapons in Constable’s County, Nuclear Free Local Authorities tell Ministers. If Fukushima water is safe, store it in Japan, says Prime Minister of Solomon Islands. In Kenya, police break up an environmental meeting that was explaining nuclear hazards.

PERSONAL STORIES. Nuclear test veteran from Ipswich among first to receive medal.

POLITICS.   UK. Conflating councils with communities causes confusion in nuclear dump areas. Sizewell C nuclear, if built, will be late and obsolete. Tory MP inexplicably asks for nuclear powered frigates. EDF and French government clash over nuclear strategy. Building Irish nuclear energy plants ‘does not make economic sense’, Eamon Ryan, Green Party leader. USA -another reason to oppose expanding nuclear power.       

USA.  “Republicans for Ukraine”s refreshingly honest Ukraine war ad

Crown prince confirms Saudi Arabia will seek nuclear arsenal if Iran develops one.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.

• U.S. HELPED PAKISTAN GET IMF BAILOUT WITH SECRET ARMS DEAL FOR UKRAINE, LEAKED DOCUMENTS REVEAL. Biden’s Whoppers at UN on Ukraine Burger King worthy. 
• Saudi Arabia Says It Will Get Nuclear Weapon If… 
• Antony Blinken wary on Iran, doesn’t criticise Saudi Arabia. Netanyahu at UN issues ‘nuclear’ threat to Iran, later retracted.  Foundation for the Defense of Democracy and The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center urge Biden against helping Saudi Arabia to enrich uranium.
• Pakistan’s new nuclear brinkmanship.
• Nearly 10 million Ukrainians have fled to EU.   
•   United Nations Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty Continues to Gather Strength. 
• Why Japan should stop its Fukushima nuclear wastewater ocean release.

SAFETY. Possibly contaminated iron scraps from near Fukushima plant sold

SECRETS and LIES. This War Wasn’t Just Provoked — It Was Provoked Deliberately.        New York Times exposes Zelensky lie about Donbass missile strike.      US government and media lying about Ukrainian counteroffensive – Seymour Hersh.     Canadian parliament and its visitor Zelensky applaud Nazi Waffen SS veteran (VIDEO).

WASTES. South Korea will expand the number of spots for water testing amid concerns over the release of nuclear waste from Japan’s crippled Fukushima power plant. China not invited to participate in nuclear water testing – Chinese embassy in Japan.

WAR and CONFLICT. The President’s Power To Launch Nuclear Weapons Highlights A Troubling Paradox In U.S. Strategy. ‘Biden’s phase’ of Ukraine war is beginning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KIqR3ORYLE Cannon Fodder: Number of Ukrainian Amputee Soldiers Going Through the Roof. NATO Chief Admits NATO Expansion Was Key to Russian Invasion of Ukraine.      Is World War III About to Start? Part I: Drift Toward War.

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. Pentagon exempts Ukraine operations from potential government shutdown. The risk that nuclear weapons could be used is tremendous – Finnish President on war in Ukraine. White House Close To Providing Kiev With Cluster-Armed ATACMS.    Ukraine could get long-range missiles armed with U.S. cluster bombs. Poland Says It’s No Longer Arming Ukraine Amid Grain Spat.

Russia shows N Korea’s Kim hypersonic missiles, nuclear-capable bombers. Maintaining the USA nuclear arsenal,  at $750 billion over the next decade. Yes, nuclear weapons are immoral. They’re also, practically speaking, useless. Okinawa Disproves The US Narrative About Overseas Bases.

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