This week – countering the nuclear-military-industrial -complex
Some bits of good news – Powering Up the Global South Elimination of trachoma as a public health problem in India. A powerful new film shows nature restoration in action.
TOP STORIES.
Is it worse to have no climate solutions – or to have them but refuse to use them?
Israel attacks the United Nations .
Secrets and Lies: This is how the West doomed Ukraine.Senior U.S. Diplomats, Journalists, Academics and Secretaries of Defense Say: the U.S. Provoked Russia in Ukraine.
Nuclear disarmament is an urgent cause in a world on the brink.
The Energy Department just made one plutonium pit. -making more is uncertain.
Making “Australia a Global Nuclear Waste Dump”: Senator Shoebridge on Labor’s Latest Betrayal.
Climate. The Atlantic Ocean’s currents are on the verge of collapse. This is what it means for the planet.
Noel’s notes. All the way with AI – up, up, then -into the abyss? Media enthusiasm for dodgy “cutting edge Lego-like micro-nuclear power plants” , (but doubts creep in).
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AUSTRALIA
Congressional report suggests Australia could dump plans to acquire AUKUS nuclear submarines. Australia’s democracy trashed, as Labor government + Liberal opposition join forces to push AUKUS bills through. Queensland Premier Steven Miles is promising to hold a vote on nuclear power. Here’s why. Deadly war for journalists. More Australian nuclear news at https://antinuclear.net/2024/10/15/australian-nuclear-news-headlines-14-21-october/
NUCLEAR ITEMS
| ARTS and CULTURE. “We’re Spending 2 Trillion Dollars on Weapons That Must Never Be Used” |
| ATROCITIES. Israel Is Routinely Shooting Children in the Head in Gaza: US Surgeon & Palestinian Nurse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgSZ1fTk4r8. We’re Basically Being Asked To Believe That The Palestinians Are Genociding Themselves. Gabor Mate: ‘It’s like we’re watching Auschwitz on TikTok’. |
| CLIMATE. The world’s top lying nuclear salesman is after your climate action money. How carbon capture and storage and nuclear are adding little to decarbonisation compared to solar and wind. |
| ECONOMICS. ‘A catastrophically poor bargain for the UK’: Experts verdict on government plan for new nuclear finance. New investment sought for Hinkley Point C as French twin nuclear reactor switched on. Apollo Global Management Inc in Talks to Partly Finance EDF’s Hinkley UK Nuclear Power Plant. |
| ENERGY. Open AI Wants to Build Data Centres That Would Consume More Electricity Per Year Than the Whole of the U.K. Small nuclear reactors won’t be ready in time for the needs of energy-guzzling needs of Artificial Intelligence ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2024/10/18/2-b1-small-nuclear-reactors-wont-be-ready-in-time-for-the-needs-of-energy-guzzling-needs-of-artificisal-intelligence/ |
| ENVIRONMENT. Oceans. A nuclear kettle of fish at Hinkley Point C. North Somerset village urges re-think on EDF salt marshes. Councillors raise concerns over fish populations at Hinkley C.Some Types of Pollution Are More Equal than Others. |
| LEGAL. Plutonium just had a bad day in court.Environmental groups challenge the nuclear industry’s portrayal of its energy as “clean” and “non-emitting,” citing health risks and long-term radioactive waste. |
| MEDIA. Revealed: The Israeli Spies Writing America’s News. Book: THE FALL OF ISRAEL: The Degradation of Israel’s Politics, Economy & Military. Deadly war for journalists – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykKth4sEbII |
| OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Campaigners welcome international investors to UK summit but urge them to boycott “toxic investment” Sizewell C 14.10.24. Open Letter to the Department for Energy Security –new nuclear power ‘a catastrophically poor bargain’ |
| POLITICS. US opens applications for $900 million for small nuclear reactors (article includes a note of caution). Years after nuclear fiasco soaked ratepayers, leaders look at restarting VC Summer project . |
| POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. “Goodbye Lebanon” – High Israeli Official. Biden Says OK, So Far. “Israel must be expelled from the United Nations”. Israel’s War on the United Nations. Another Phony Biden PR Stunt About Humanitarian Aid In Gaza.Ukraine ‘will seek nuclear weapons’ if it cannot join Nato. Biden should channel Trump and talk to Putin. North Somerset MP objects to salt marsh at Kingston Seymour. |
| SAFETY. New phase in safety work on Chernobyl’s original shelter. Incidents. Nuclear Missile Submarines Collided (Armed with Hundreds of Nuclear Weapons). |
| SECRETS and LIES. Exposed: How Israeli spies control your VPN (Virtual Private Network).Zelensky aide reveals secret clauses of ‘victory plan’. |
SPINBUSTER.Refuting myths about nuclear and renewable energy.The Irony of Powering AI on Atomic Energy.Competition Bureau asked to address nuclear industry’s false and misleading claims of “clean” and “non-emitting” energy. |
| TECHNOLOGY. Google Pivots to Nuclear Reactors to Power Its Artificial Intelligence. What does Google’s move into nuclear power mean for AI – and the world? Amazon bets on nuclear power to fuel AI ambitions. To make nuclear fusion a reliable energy source one day, scientists will first need to design heat- and radiation-resilient materials |
| WASTES. How to build a nuclear tomb to last millennia.Decommissioning. First ex-Royal Navy nuclear submarine to be disposed of enters final dismantling phase. Video. Gordon Edwards on Nuclear Fuel Waste Abandonment (South Bruce). |
| WAR and CONFLICT. Volodomyr’s World: A Delusional ‘Victory Plan’. Widening the War: The US Sends Troops to Israel. Leaked US Intelligence Documents Outline Israeli Preparations to Strike Iran. Nuclear Fever: War Mongering on Iran. Report: Israel Plans To Strike Iran Before US Presidential Election. Will Israel cross the red line of targeting Iran’s nuclear sites? An Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities could backfire. Under the shadow of a NATO-Russia nuclear war, Hibakusha awarded Nobel Peace Prize. |
WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. 200+ Jewish-Led Protesters Arrested at NY Stock Exchange Say ‘Stop Arming Israel’. U.S. to Deploy Missile Defense System and About 100 Troops to Israel.
Germany Dismisses Ukraine’s Demands for Taurus Missiles and NATO Membership. Ukraine must have nukes or NATO – Zelensky.
NATO Announces Nuclear Drills as Nobel Goes to Atomic Weapon Abolitionists.
China’s openness about its latest nuclear missile test shows growing confidence vis-à-vis the United States. China not part of nuclear arms race, says envoy.
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