This week – in nuclear news
Some bits of good news. Rooftop solar capacity has increased by an unprecedented 349% in South Africa in just over a year. The all-female, grassroots network moving millions away from fossil fuels’ Positive news: A ship powered by rubbish docked in the UK. The pitter patter of tiny beaver feet returned to the UK capital.
TOP STORIES. Journalism Itself Is Locked Up In Belmarsh.
French tax-payers up for €20bn or more per year, in mountain of costs to keep nuclear fleet going.
Tragic Nuclear Submarine Accident in China Sparks Global Concern.
Define ‘Nazi’: Western media muddies history to cover up Canada’s SS scandal.
Depleted Ukrainium: What Comes After Failure?
5 animal species that became radioactive after being exposed to nuclear fallout zones.
Climate. World could be heading for hottest October on record – after hottest July, August and September ever. World breaches key 1.5C warming mark for record number of days. The Pope speaks out against climate deniers.
Nuclear. Event: 14 October 12-2pm ET Join Us WARHEADS TO WINDMILLS – ONLINE FORUM. The Palestine -Israel disaster – who knows where this is now headed?
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AUSTRALIA. France attempts to pressure Australia to stop engaging with UN nuclear weapons ban treaty. Pacific island States support the Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons – a problem for Australia in joining AUKUS nuclear military alliance. Accident on nuclear submarine would leave Australia ‘unavoidably’ responsible, says US report. Jacqui Lambie’s nuclear response to secret flights for submarine project. BAE lands £4bn contract for Aukus nuclear attack submarines.
Class action launched against British Government over nuclear bomb tests in Australia’
Why Nazis still call Australia home. Who Is Anthony Pratt, the Billionaire Trump Allegedly Shared Nuclear Secrets With? Nuclear-Powered Fixations: The Trump-Pratt Disclosures. Is nuclear energy feasible in Australia (and how much would it cost)?
Australian towns battle fire and flood back-to-back.
CLIMATE. Reconciling With Truth Requires Listening… what about nuclear waste?
ECONOMICS. Aukus: UK defence giant BAE Systems wins Australian £3.95bn nuclear submarine contract. Which Companies Will Benefit Most From Modernization Of The U.S. Nuclear Arsenal? Hyped up uranium investors face political fallout risk.
EDUCATION. Military space groups in New Mexico expand recruitment and STEM education for children.
ENERGY. Wind and solar are only forms of power generation rising globally, study finds. Solar oversupply leads southwest Japan utility to offer limited ‘free’ power.
ENVIRONMENT. Oceans. Fukushima nuclear plant starts 2nd release of treated radioactive wastewater into the sea. How safe is the release of treated radioactive water from Fukushima plant? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjO4fF68FAQ . Groups Demand DOE Environmental Impact Statement Before Agency Bails Out Palisades Zombie Reactor Restart.
ETHICS and RELIGION. Ukraine ‘very cheap way’ to fight Russia, NATO state claims.
HEALTH. More Los Alamos National Laboratory Workers Test Positive for Radiation Exposure. Fukushima Study Links Low-Dose Radiation to Diabetes. Low-Dose Radiation Affects Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Human Aortic Endothelial Cells by Altering Gene Expression under Normal and Diabetic Conditions.
HISTORY. The Origins of Ukraine’s Fascists & Why It Matters, w/ Historian Tarik Cyril Amar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C7DE2KFJHs
LEGAL. Georgia Power will pay $413 million to settle lawsuit over nuclear reactor cost overruns.
MEDIA. New York Times provides American State Propaganda disguised as news. Portland filmmaker on ‘Downwind,’ a powerful documentary about nuclear tests on U.S. soil. All This Death Is The Fault Of The Western Press.
NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY. UK small #nuclear competition: Rolls Royce in, Bill Gates snubbed.
OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Protest. Protesters call on Scottish Government to withdraw spaceport support. Environmentalists suffer another setback in fight to shutter California’s last nuclear power plant.
POLITICS. Maybe Branding U.S. Wars Democrat or Republican Wasn’t Such A Good Idea. US Speaker McCarthy’s was ousted, partly due to the Ukraine issue: the next showdown is due on 17 November. US public support declines for arming Ukraine, Reuters/Ipsos poll shows. Zelensky names battalion after 1930s fascist sympathizer.
Senators Express Concerns Over Reports That Saudis Want US Support for Nuclear Program.
Green Party candidate for Waverley Valley pledged to challenge UK Government over Sizewell C nuclear .
POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. Nuclear renaissance in Europe ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtCJl4lZ-T8 France seeks European subsidies for its nuclear industry – fears “discrimination against nuclear”
The US deal to normalise relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel brings risks of a Middle East nuclear arms race. In nuclear push, Saudi Arabia could play US, China off each other. Saudi nukes: A desire for energy, weapons, or just leverage?
Mexican president criticizes US aid to Ukraine. Ex-EU boss says Ukraine too corrupt to join.
NATO member calls for ‘security umbrella’ to cover Ukraine. Jeffrey Sachs: Beyond the Neocon Debacle in Ukraine. Russia says Japan did not inform it fully about radioactive Fukushima water.
North Korea slams nuclear watchdog as ‘paid trumpeter’ for USA.
SAFETY.
- Incident. A Chinese nuclear-powered submarine has sunk with the loss of 55 sailors.
- Loud Explosion Heard In Pakistan’s Dera Ghazi Khan City With Nuclear Facility; Officials Say ‘Sonic Boom’.
- USA. NRC Issues Event Notification for Peach Bottom Nuclear Plant, Pa. Repeated malfunctions reveal safety issues in Fukushima discharge. Minnesota State records highlight lack of coordination in nuclear leak response. NRC Commissioners Fail to Take Action on Critical Safety Issue at Diablo Canyon. ‘Substantial’ safety violation alleged at South Carolina nuclear plant after 20 years of problems.
- Slovenian nuclear plant shut due to leak in containment building.
- UK. Residents closest to Dounreay and Vulcan to be excluded from the nuclear emergency planning zone.
SECRETS and LIES. New Canadian Nazi scandal forces Viceroy to apologize – media. Ukrainians who helped elderly neighbours in Russian occupation are being convicted of collaboration. Trump blabbed nuclear submarine secrets to Australian billionaire member of Mar-a-Lago club, report claims. The CIA’s “Information War” is Now Globalized?
SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. Star Wars? Learned professor speaks of threat to peace in space
SPINBUSTER. Really? “Not About Nato” | “Never About NATO” | “Nothing to do with NATO” | UKRAINE WAR – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf5xEBwBhds Lincolnshire: a green and nuclear promised land.
TECHNOLOGY. AI Goes to War.
WASTES. As Japan releases more Fukushima water, what about the rest of the plant? At nuclear power plants around the Pacific, radioactive wastewater is being dumped. UK’s Nuclear Waste Service has said that a willing community could trump unsuitable geology.
WAR and CONFLICT. The Military Industrial Complex Is Making Hundreds Of Billions Of Dollars, And They Need A Military Draft In The U.S. To Take Things To The Next Level. Russia not looking for ‘more territory’ – Putin.
WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. Hardening Ourselves into Weapons . No weapons left for Ukraine in Europe – Politico. Britain Has Run Out of Military Equipment to Give to #Ukraine. US is pushing Russia ‘toward using’ nuclear weapons by arming Ukraine, Belarus leader says. Why The US Canceled Project Pluto: The Super Weapon That Never Was.
Why Russia, China, and the U.S. Are Suddenly Expanding Their Nuclear Weapons Test Sites.
Class action launched against British Government over nuclear bomb tests in Australia
By A Current Affair Staff 7 Oct 23 https://9now.nine.com.au/a-current-affair/nuclear-bomb-testing-australia-class-action-british-government/199eafe9-c774-432e-99b2-f71a96ffb696—
It’s a scandal that has spanned decades as Australian and British servicemen sent to nuclear testing sites fight to be officially recognised for their service and suffering.
Between 1952 and 1963, Great Britain carried out nuclear bomb tests in Australia and the Pacific.
Doug Brooks was at the first one.
“The only thing we were told to do was turn our backs to the blast ground zero, cover our eyes with our hands and the blast x-rayed our hands we could see the bones,” he told A Current Affair.
Tony Spruzen was at the Maralinga test range in the remote outback of South Australia.
“The brightness was so much, it’s something like I never experienced before, I could see through my eyelids, I could see the bones of my fingers,” he said.
Doug and Tony are two of the rapidly diminishing number of veterans sent to the nuclear test sites.
In total 45 tests were conducted by Britain’s Ministry of Defence – 12 of those were in Australia at the blessing of the Menzies government.
There were 22,000 servicemen in the Pacific tests. 1500 are still alive.
Now there is a new class action against the British Government.
“Well, what’s prompted it is that we’ve discovered medical records do in fact exist for these servicemen,” lawyer Matthew Jury said.
“We have a copy of these records and what that tells us is the other medical records exist which the government has been concealing for 70 years so those surviving servicemen who want answers now know that those records exist so where and the government has been concealing them.”
Jury’s firm has launched the action class and he claims records reveal the radiation levels in the blood and urine of the servicemen.
“As they have grown older they have developed extreme and aggressive forms of cancer,” Jury said.
“There have been miscarriages and other birth defects which can’t be treated by their doctors because their doctors don’t have their full medical records.”
The British Ministry of Defence hasn’t responded to requests for an interview or statement.
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How safe is the release of treated radioactive water from Fukushima plant?
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5 Oct 2023Japan begins second discharge of treated nuclear water from Fukushima Japan has begun discharging a second batch of treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima plant into the ocean. It’s happening amid protest from countries like China, Russia and South Korea who are all concerned about the risks. Robert Jacobs from the Hiroshima Peace Institute explains with these worries are founded.
World breaches key 1.5C warming mark for record number of days
The world is breaching a key warming threshold at a rate that has
scientists concerned, a BBC analysis has found. On about a third of days in
2023, the average global temperature was at least 1.5C higher than
pre-industrial levels. Staying below that marker long-term is widely
considered crucial to avoid the most damaging impacts of climate change.
But 2023 is “on track” to be the hottest year on record, and 2024 could be
hotter. “It is a sign that we’re reaching levels we haven’t been before,”
says Dr Melissa Lazenby, from the University of Sussex.
BBC 7th Oct 2023
Wind and solar are only forms of power generation rising globally, study finds.
Independent, Stuti Mishra 8 Oct 23,
China leads the charge by contributing to 43 per cent of the global
growth in solar energy generation.
. Electricity data from 78 countries that
represented 92 per cent of global electricity demand for the first half of
2023 was analysed in the study released by environmental think-tank Ember
on Thursday. It found that while overall emissions remained stable, with a
slight 0.2 per cent increase, wind and solar power generation surged ahead.
Independent 6th Oct 2023
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