Antinuclear

Counteracting the spin of the military-industrial-nuclear-complex this week

Some bits of good news.    
Instead of Taking Millions for Their Land, Texas Family Makes a Park Instead

Beavers Are Back in London — and They’re Thriving.   Moroccan Farmers Are Banking Traditional Seeds for a Hotter, Drier Future

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TOP STORIES Julian Assange faces judgment day over US extradition. ‘Bring Julian home’: the Australian campaign to free Assange.  https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/instead-of-taking-millions-for-their-land-texas-family-makes-a-park-instead/

Noel’s notes.    A DISAPPOINTING NETFLIX SERIES – Turning Point -the bomb and the cold war. Netflix’s “Turning point.       The bomb and the cold war”- Episode 2 – Poisoning the Soil.     Dominic Cummings the “evil gnome” who makes us think.

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AUSTRALIA. Nuclear subs are coming to Australia -Now the Coalition wants reactors, too-We’re not ready for it. Australia and the AUKUS nuclear waste-dump clause. Australia risks being ‘world’s nuclear waste dump’ unless Aukus laws changed, critics say. Nuclear waste from AUKUS nations could be on cards . 

Dutton’s nuclear would spike electricity bills when (if) they start in the 2040s. Going nuclear on power and wages may not be the election winner Peter Dutton thinks it is. Anthony Albanese accuses Coalition of hiding key details on nuclear policy. ‘Hugely expensive’ nuclear a ‘Trojan horse’ for coal, NSW Liberal says as energy policy rift exposed.  The 13 leading sites for a nuclear reactor in Australia – including a dam that supplies drinking water for a major city.

Australian war crimes whistleblower David McBride jailed for six years. David McBride goes to prison – and Australian democracy takes a hit. 

NUCLEAR ISSUES

CLIMATE. Mycle Schneider: Nuclear power is not an option.

CULTURE. Amidst genocide and war, anti-Zionism protesters are demonised as ‘extremists‘. War Culture Hates the Ethical Passion of the Young.

ECONOMICS. Nuclear Weapons at Any Price? Congress Should Say No. Nuclear power station risks hitting taxpayers with £20bn bill. Pension funds need ‘compelling’ returns from UK nuclear projects to invest.

EDUCATION. UK nuclear lobby further infiltrates universities with government grants for nuclear fusion.

EMPLOYMENT Warning that Dounreay could be facing ‘prolonged’ industrial action over pay dispute.

ENERGY. Tech firms claim nuclear will solve AI’s power needs – they’re wrong. Think before you click – and three other ways to reduce your digital carbon footprint.

HEALTH. Radiation. New Brunswick’s nuclear reactor emits high levels of radioactivity, increasing cancer risk.

MEDIA. Nuclear War Will Only Kill People Already Impacted By Nuclear Weapons. That’s Everyone.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeMZcgD8PmA

OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Protest. RAF Lakenheath protest to make airbase nuclear-free zone. Together Against Sizewell C vows to continue fight after legal challenge rejected by Supreme Court – as the nuclear plant welcomes the news. Indonesia civil society groups raise concerns over proposed Borneo nuclear reactor.

PERSONAL STORY. The plutonium connection: Why I no longer conduct my research at the University of New Brunswick.

POLITICS. Ontario’s nuclear option is the wrong path to meet green energy targets. Sen. Lindsey Graham suggests nuking Gaza, says nuking Hiroshima was ‘the right decision’. UK plans new nuclear plant in Scotland despite Scottish government opposition. UK government about to overrule Scotland and impose nuclear stations? UK government planning nuclear site in Scotland – Jack. Scotland’s First Minister Swinney condemns Jack’s menacing idea for nuclear plant in Scotland . We’re all right Jack: No need for nuclear in Scotland. The last thing that Scotland needs is new nuclear power, small or otherwise. LABOUR MUST RULE OUT NEW NUCLEAR REACTOR FOR SCOTLAND. Top Labour donor joins campaign to stop Hinkley nuclear plant. Nuclear Free Local Authorities welcome commitment to recruit new Theddlethorpe GDF Community Partnership Chair at less cost who is local. Welsh Nuclear Free Local Authorities welcome  Traws abandonment from New Nuclear plans.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. US Says It Won’t Let Iran Build Nuclear Bomb. Dominic Cummings: Zelensky’s no Churchill and Ukraine’s corrupt. Xi outlines solution to Ukraine conflict. US bans China crypto-miner from nuclear base area. China urges US, UK and Australia to stop AUKUS nuclear submarine deal: FM spokesperson. China and Russia Disagree on North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons.

PLUTONIUM ALL reactor-produced plutonium is usable in nuclear weapons.

SAFETY. Greenpeace Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) condemn Russian government plans to restart nuclear reactors at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. Military activities near Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP). MISTAKES THAT CAUSED THE CHERNOBYL DISASTER. https://nuclear-news.net/2024/05/20/1-b-all-reactor-produced-plutonium-is-usable-in-nuclear-weapons/).

SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. New report to Congress shows US determined to militarize space

SPINBUSTER. “Bouncing-back” and other resilience neologisms championed by the state are inherently at odds with the irreversibility of nuclear waste.   Promising the Impossible: Blinken’s Out of Tune Performance in Kyiv.

TECHNOLOGY. EU rebuffs UK attempt to continue collaborating on nuclear fusion experiment -ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2024/05/16/1-b1-eu-rebuffs-uk-attempt-to-continue-collaborating-on-nuclear-fusion-experiment/ Renewable Energy company Neoen to build its biggest battery to shift energy to evening peak in nuclear-dominated Ontario. Small Modular Nuclear Five Times The Price (letter). Canada’s plutonium mishap in India was 50 years ago this week – is history repeating itself now?

URANIUM. Russian uranium ban reopens threat of uranium mining escalation in US. Congress must stop Biden from fueling a Saudi nuclear bomb .

WASTES. Nuclear waste to be buried 650ft under the English countryside. ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2024/05/19/2-a-nuclear-waste-to-be-buried-650ft-under-the-english-countryside/ Japan starts 6th discharge of Fukushima nuclear-contaminated wastewater.

WAR and CONFLICT. 450,000 Palestinians flee Rafah as Israeli tanks move in. Israel ‘Has Gone to War Against the Entire Palestinian People‘: Sanders. The US a Direct Partner in the Israeli War. Only ‘two countries’ would survive nuclear war after ‘5 billion die in 72 hours‘, says expert. U.S. rejects China’s proposal to ban first use of nuclear weapons. This is what nuclear war in 2024 would look like. Christmas Island veterans receive nuclear testing medals

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. The Arsenal of Genocide: the U.S. Weapons That Are Destroying Gaza. Biden Moves Forward Over $1 Billion in Weapons for Israel as Tanks Push Deeper Into Rafah. Blinken to Zelensky: ‘Here’s another $2 billion to get thousands more Ukraine troops killed for nothing. U.S. conducted first subcritical nuclear test since September 2021. Fifty years after Canada’s plutonium mishap in India, is history repeating itself?. G7 goal of nuclear-free world increasingly challenged.

May 20, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina reviews