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Nuclear news – week to 23rd October

A bit of good newsUNICEF: First deliveries of life-saving supplies for children enter Gaza. Prepositioned emergency supplies.  UNICEF has prepositioned additional emergency supplies for up to 250,000 people at the Rafah crossing that can be brought into Gaza in a matter of hours, with more enroute. Humanitarian supplies must be allowed to safely reach children and families in need wherever they are, in accordance with the rules of war.

TOP STORIES

 How Media Outlets Work With Israel To Control Gaza Narrative. 

Ralph Nader: Biden Returns Empty-handed, Except for a Huge Bill for the American Taxpayers.

Nuclear power is a dead end as a climate solution. 

NUSCALE POWER ($SMR): A FAKE CUSTOMER AND A MAJOR CONTRACT IN PERIL CAST DOUBT ON NUSCALE’S VIABILITY.

Christina notes. Voices for decency.          Atoms4NetZero – the International Atomic Energy Agency is deceiving the world on climate change

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AUSTRALIA. Australian Red Cross calls on the Australian Government to sign and ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.     Australia needs ‘drastic’ renewables boost as nuclear not an option for decades, says centre-right thinktank.          Albanese’s nuclear submarine plans in disarray as he visits USA in the midst of a Republican Congressmen’s brawl.               Radioactive instrument missing at South Australian steel plant.

ECONOMICS. Why NuScale Power Stock Got Thrashed on Thursday.     Germany caves in to French demands for government subsidies to the nuclear industry in the EU electricity market.       Fukushima plant water release: Russia follows China, suspends all Japanese seafood .imports.

EDUCATION. The nuclear industry continues to encroach on education.

ENERGY. World may have crossed solar power ‘tipping point’. Dunkelflaute (or… can we keep the lights on when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine?)

ENVIRONMENT. Oceans. China highlights marine radiation monitoring in draft law revision.  Multiple radionuclides detected in Fukushima nuke wastewater planned for 3rd round of ocean discharge.

ETHICS and RELIGION. Israel’s Violence Will Never Bring “Safety” to Anyone, Including Jews. Holy See urges renewed efforts to advance nuclear disarmament.

HISTORY. Declassified Soviet files reveal horror crimes of Ukrainian Nazi collaborators.

HUMAN RIGHTS. Amnesty Probe Finds ‘Damning Evidence of War Crimes’ by Israel in Gaza.

LEGAL. Two Men Plead Guilty to Falsifying Documents Related to Testing of Equipment at Nuclear Power Plants. St. Louis businessman charged with kickback scheme involving nuclear weapons parts.

MEDIA. Atrocity Propaganda. Mass Media Reporters Aren’t Buying Israel’s Hospital Bombing Story. The Mainstream Press Keep Slamming Israel’s Hospital Bombing Story. How Big Media Facilitate Israeli War Crimes in Gaza.

NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY. UK small nuclear competition: Rolls Royce in, Bill Gates snubbed.       Small modular nuclear reactors: Unlikely, unaffordable, dirty and dangerous.         Why are Small Modular Nuclear Reactors a Dog’s Breakfast of Designs?              Many years before floating nuclear power plants could become viable.

PERSONAL STORIES. Nuclear Weapons and New Mexico’s Downwinders: Tina Cordova on “the legacy for us that no one ever talks about”.

POLITICS. Poland’s $40 billion plan for 2 nuclear reactors, built by 2043. Ukraine, Taiwan, Israel:  Biden’s treasure squandering trifecta. Bulgaria abandons Belene NPP project.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. 

•   US vetoes UN Security Council action on Israel, Gaza.
• Israel. Hamas conflict: US President Joe Biden heading to Israel as Iran threatens ‘action within hours’. 
• Russia takes the first step towards revoking ratification of the nuclear test ban treaty. 
•   Existence of Nuclear Weapons Creates Temptation, Risk of Use, 
• First Committee Hears as It Unpacks Assumptions about Complex Path to Peace. 
•  Can the UN Help the Nuclear Victims, At Last? 
•   France insists on nuclear for green hydrogen. 
•   Antipodean Nuclear Free Zones: Testing Times for Antarctica and the South Pacific.

SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. Burned-up space junk pollutes Earth’s upper atmosphere, NASA

planes find. Nuclear companies sign up for space technology missions.

WAR and CONFLICT. 

• Ukraine’s counteroffensive is over – Moscow.
•   Israel postpones ground operation in Gaza – NYT. Jewish Voice for Peace Holds Massive Rally at Capitol for Israel-Gaza Ceasefire.   Evidence That an Israeli Jet Dropped an Air Burst Bomb on the al-Ahli Hospital Courtyard.
•  NTI Releases New Paper on Global Effects of Nuclear Conflict: Implications for Nuclear Policymaking, Then and Now.
•  Historian Peter Kuznick Warns of WW3, Nuclear War If Conflicts Don’t De-Escalate. 

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. 

•  Biden to America: “Give me $100 billion for perpetual wars in Ukraine and Gaza”. White House Seeks $105 Billion To Arm Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan. Israel asks US for ‘emergency’ $10 billion military funding– New York Times. Yellen Says the US Can Afford to Fund Wars in Gaza and Ukraine.
•   China expanding nuclear arsenal much faster than predicted, US report says. China rejects Pentagon report that claimed China was starting a nuclear arms race.
•   Congress calls for third US nuclear submarine yard to meet American and AUKUS obligations. China-Russia in a nuclear sub counter to AUKUS. 
• Does Israel have effective nuclear weapons? Chinese military experts have doubts. 
•   Large scale U.S. military buildup in the Middle East: Is America preparing to launch World War III? ‘Nuclear power, weapons inextricably linked’.

October 23, 2023 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina reviews