Antinuclear

Nuclear and associated news -week to 8th July

Some bits of good news.  Conservation and economic development go hand in hand, more often than expected.  Peru has protected 6,449 hectares of an endemic fog oasis that hosts hundreds of rare and threatened species.

TOP STORIES 

Trump has a strategic plan for the country: Gearing up for nuclear war. 

How do you convince someone to live next to a nuclear waste site? 

Nuclear power would put our energy security into Russian hands– ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2024/07/05/1-a-nuclear-power-would-put-our-energy-security-into-russian-hands/ 

Climate. Climate hazards impact more than four-fifths of cities worldwide, study finds. How record-breaking Hurricane Beryl is a sign of a warming world.

Noel’s notes. Australia further in the grip of the USA, with the Amazon data spy hub – paid for by Aussie tax-payers. The world must stop creating nuclear garbage.

AUSTRALIA. Australians being kept in the dark about Pine Gap expansion. Australia to build ‘top-secret’ cloud for intelligence agencies in $2bn deal with Amazon.    Political Mastermind: a toxic waste of everyone’s time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4HGJ42c2Kg    With its nuclear energy policy, Peter Dutton seems to have forgotten the Liberal Party’s core beliefs. See more Australian news at Australian nuclear news headlines this week.  

NUCLEAR ISSUES

ATROCITIES. Israel Has Forcibly Displaced 1.9 Million Palestinians in Gaza.

CLIMATE. Can the climate survive the insatiable energy demands of the AI arms race?

ECONOMICS. French nuclear giant scraps SMR plans due to soaring costs, will start over. EDF’s Nuward U-turn shows risk of betting on Small Nuclear Reactors – analysts. Labour must act fast to fire up Rolls-Royce nuclear reactor deals.Too uncertain, too slow: funds rule out financing Australia’s Dutton nuclear plan.

EMPLOYMENT. Talent Shortage Threatens Europe’s Nuclear Renaissance.

EVENTS. 10 July Rally to oppose nuclear mega-dump and support Kebaowek First Nation – at noon in Ottawa  https://www.stopnuclearwaste.com/

LEGAL. Why Julian Assange couldn’t outrun the Espionage Act.

MEDIA. Book. Nuclear is Not the Solution. The Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of Climate Change.

POLITICS.

• Now Keir Starmer Has to Decide If He’d Use Nukes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQO6rJsVNkw . Tory accused of exaggerating chances of new nuclear plant.      SCOTTISH GREENS WILL OPPOSE ALL PLANS FOR NEW NUCLEAR ENERGY. Work to show UK nuclear ‘environmentally sustainable’ incomplete, 16 months after government announcement. ‘Letters of last resort’: deciding response to a nuclear attack among first of Starmer’s tasks.
• Trump Advisers Call for U.S. Nuclear Weapons Testing if He Is Elected. . Congressional group on nuclear arms sets July hearing for embattled missile program.
• Starmer’s role in Assange’s prosecution.
• Masoud Pezeshkian: Iranian reformer who wants to end Tehran’s nuclear stand-off.
• Public Vote on Nuclear Power Plant Sparks Debate in Kazakhstan.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.Europe is Quietly Debating a Nuclear Future Without the US.Trusting the ‘Five Eyes’ OnlyUkraine to be warned it’s ‘too corrupt’ for NATO .What does Iran’s Nuclear Policy look like with the new president?

SAFETY. Russia might restart the Zaporizhzhia Ukrainian nuclear plant it seized.

SECRETS and LIES. Former New Brunswick energy minister joins nuclear industry after resigning in June. Australian Opposition leader Dutton’s claim about G20 nuclear energy use doesn’t add up.

SPINBUSTER. The nuclear and renewable myths that mainstream media can’t be bothered challenging. The overblown hype of the nuclear “bros”.

TECHNOLOGY.The commissioning of the Flamanville EPR, nuclear reactor is proving difficult.Unable to effectively operate its lone existing nuclear reactor, New Brunswick is betting on advanced options ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2024/07/04/1-b1-unable-to-effectively-operate-its-lone-existing-nuclear-reactor-new-brunswick-is-betting-on-advanced-options/World’s Largest Nuclear Fusion Reactor Delayed . ITER nuclear fusion reactor hit by massive decade-long delay and €5bn price hike. Fusion power could transform how we get our energy — and worsen problems it’s intended to solve.Constellation Energy plans restart of Three Mile Island nuclear plant.

WAR and CONFLICT. Ukrainian drones injure Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant workers, say Russian-backed officials.Tensions with Iran spotlight Israel’s hidden nuclear arsenal.The obsolescence of war.

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES.You Don’t Want to Live in America’s ‘Nuclear Sponge’ .NATO Members Agree To Give Ukraine $43 Billion in Military Aid for 2025. US announces more than $2 billion package for Ukraine.US nuclear missile program costs soar to around $160 billion, sources say. Trump allies are peddling a catastrophic idea for U.S. nuclear weapon policy.Philippines Says US Will Pull Out Controversial Mid-Range Missile System.

July 8, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina reviews | energy, news, nuclear, nuclear-energy, nuclear-power