Australian nuclear news headlines 19 – 26 August
Australian nuclear news headlines as they come in 19 – 26 August :
- Is the USA now considering withdrawal from AUKUS?
- Western world complicit in Gaza Hellfire attacks
- Civil Society faces imposition of an AUKUS military High Level nuclear waste dump.
- Australia offers U.S. a vast new military launchpad in China conflict.
- AUKUS 2.0: Albanese Drives It Like He Stole It, and Then Gives It Away to the US
- The anti-renewables groups pushing the nuclear option to rural Australia
- Nuclear industry front group? The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) enthuses over nuclear-armed submarines’
- Earthquake damages buildings near site of proposed nuclear plant.
- Too big to fail? Who cares if there’s no accountability – the Nuclear Lie.
- The Coalition has turned its renewable energy denial into a nuclear roadmap to nowhere. It’s exhausting
- “Gas Trojan horse:” Coalition nuclear push slammed as fossil wedge aimed at renewables
“Gas Trojan horse:” Coalition nuclear push slammed as fossil wedge aimed at renewables
RENEW ECONOMY, Sophie Vorrath, Aug 19, 2024
The chair of Australia’s largest group of clean energy investors has described the federal Coalition’s push for nuclear power as a “gas Trojan horse,” and a political wedge intended to douse investment in renewables and prolong the use of fossil fuels.
John Martin, CEO of renewables developer Windlab and chair of the Clean Energy Investor Group, on Monday named wedge politics as one of biggest issues holding back the shift to renewables in Australia, describing the current industry status quo as “really, really challenging.”
“Australia is the land of wedges,” Martin told the 2024 Clean Energy Investor Conference in Melbourne.
“When I think of the whole nuclear debate, I don’t see that as really about nuclear. It’s a gas Trojan horse,” Martin told the conference.
“If you do any modeling, what will happen? The coal will go, nuclear will take forever, none of us are going to invest in renewables knowing we can’t compete against government-funded nuclear, [so that] big gap will be filled with gas. So there’s a wedge there that’s being aimed at us.”
Painting renewables as a natural enemy of the environment and wildlife is “another fantastic wedge strategy,” Martin says, that likewise threatens to derail progress on decarbonisation, while doing nothing to address the urgent need to reform Australia’s environment and biodiversity protection rules…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. https://reneweconomy.com.au/gas-trojan-horse-coalition-nuclear-push-slammed-as-fossil-wedge-aimed-at-renewables/
Nuclear news -the other side of the stories this week.
Some bits of good news. UNICEF for every child – what we do.Baby beavers born in urban London for the first time in over 400 years. UK riots spark ‘love’ campaign for refugees
TOP STORIES.
Humanity on a knife’s edge.
The Price of the Sentinel Nuclear Weapons Program Keeps Going Up—But the True Costs Are Even Higher.
Amazon Vies for Nuclear-Powered Data Center .
From the archives. Radioactive waste danger at St Louis, USA – new film ‘Atomic Homefront’
Climate. How Close Are the Planet’s Climate Tipping Points? How climate change has pushed our oceans to the brink of catastrophe. When glaciers calve: Huge underwater tsunamis found at edge of Antarctica, likely affecting ice melt.
Mature trees offer hope in world of rising emissions.
Heat aggravated by carbon pollution killed 50,000 in Europe last year – study. Half a billion children live in areas with twice as many very hot days as in 1960s.
Noel’s notes. Low dose ionising radiation as a cause of illness and death.
AUSTRALIA. Resisting AUKUS: The Paul Keating Formula.
Australia blasted for new Aukus deal over nuclear waste fears – ‘blow to sovereignty’ . Albo’s Trojan Horse. Nuclear waste dump debate heating up over AUKUS, Coalition plans The West Report – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JVfESp-A3Q Forced Posture: has Australia already ceded military control to the US? A whole lot more Australian nuclear news at https://antinuclear.net/2024/08/14/australian-nuclear-news-headlines-13-20-august/
NUCLEAR NEWS
ARTS and CULTURE. NFLA’s send ‘very best of luck’ to Peace Museum on reopening in historic Salts Mill.
ATROCITIES. The Fajr massacre: Every 70 kg bag of human remains is considered a martyr .
CLIMATE. EDF cuts nuclear production in reaction to soaring temperatures.
ECONOMICS. Sweden Considers Borrowing $28.5 Billion to Finance Nuclear. Sizewell C funding decision may not be made this year. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Antiques Roadshow. German ministers told there’s no more money for Ukraine – media.
ENERGY. Data centers want to tap existing nuclear power. Is that good or bad? Tech Companies Are Racing to Harness Nuclear Power.
| ENVIRONMENT. Black bears to be evicted for nuclear waste site. | ETHICS and RELIGION. Thou Shalt Not Commit Genocide. Bloody Eschatology: Israel and the next Big War. Fans of peace call for nuclear-free Northeast Asia. | HEALTH. Radiation. Long-run exposure to low-dose radiation reduces cognitive performance.Concerns raised for health professionals exposed to radiation at work. |
| HISTORY. How NATO Went Rogue. | LEGAL. Nuclear site apologises after pleading guilty to cybersecurity failings | MEDIA. ‘The dumbest climate conversation of all time’: experts on the Musk-Trump interview. |
| OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Nuclear Free Local Authorities send message of solidarity to Canadian First Nations opposed to nuke dump. | PERSONAL STORIES Israel Is Holding Thousands of Palestinians Captive — Including Children. British Nuclear Test Medal. |
POLITICS.
- The two faces of Kamala Harris on Israeli genocide in Gaza. Gantz warns of a civil war in “Israel”.
- Ukraine’s plan to buy Russian-made nuclear reactors sparks uproar.
- Rebranded SNC-Lavalin seeks as much as $75M in taxpayer dollars to build more powerful Candu nuclear reactors.
- Revealed: UK ministers’ doubts over nuclear plant at Torness. Nuclear Free Local Authorities (NFLA) welcome developments to move forward to an early poll in Theddlethorpe.
- Peace Is Not On The Ballot In November https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqaPrRP5rZk Congressman Garamendi Asks “Why does America need nuclear weapons?” California legislators break with Gov. Newsom over loan to keep state’s last nuclear plant running.
- South Africa halts plans for nuclear power
POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.
- Iran to Israel: Ceasefire in Gaza war, or retaliation for Haniyh murder will proceed. Iran’s future FM says nuclear deal broken, favors military-diplomatic path .
- China urges US, UK and Australia not to advance nuclear submarine cooperation.
- South Korea’s Yoon seeks dialogue with North, path to unification.
SAFETY.
- Map reveals nuclear fallout that would happen if Europe’s biggest plant explodes. IAEA warns of heightened security dangers facing Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. IAEA says safety at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant deteriorates.
- What Happens if Ukraine Seizes the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant?
- Incidents. Safety at Ukraine nuclear power plant deteriorating after blast, watchdog warns.
- Fukushima nuclear plant detects 25 tonnes of radioactive water leak. Latest leak accident in Fukushima ‘once again exposes management chaos of TEPCO’.
- Fire sparks Georgia nuclear plant alert, but officials say no safety threat as reactors unaffected
| SECRETS and LIES. 6 Billionaire Fortunes Bankrolling Project 2025. Top US Military Officials Won’t Say Whether the US had Advance Knowledge of Ukraine’s Invasion of Russia. | TECHNOLOGY. The end of Oppenheimer’s energy dream – modular reactors are supported by ideology alone. |
| WAR and CONFLICT. Israel Suddenly Has A Problem With Attacks On Population Centers. Should Ukraine capture a Russian nuclear power plant? NATO Countries Think Ukraine Won’t Be Able To Hold Territory in Russia’s Kursk. Nato fighter jets intercept Russian nuclear bombers. US deploys missile submarine to Middle East. China calls US ‘biggest nuclear threat to the world’. | WEAPONS AND WEAPONS SALES Journalists Demand Blinken Back Israel Arms Embargo. US approves new $20bn weapons sale to Israel A game plan for dealing with the costly Sentinel missile and future nuclear challenges. America prepares for a new nuclear-arms race. Iran planning to resume testing nuclear bomb detonators. Canada gives Ukraine green light to use its weapons in Russia. ’Balance of terror’: South Korea’s unthinkable ‘shift’. CNMI (Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas) group raises concern on Guam governor’s nuclear weapons storage stance. |
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