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This week: countering the nuclear-military-industrial news

A bit of good news. UNICEF highlights four proven policy solutions for children 

TOP STORIES 

Israel’s War on Journalism.   Israel’s Iran reprisal, Middle East destabilized.    ‘This is an extermination’: Israel’s assault on north Gaza’s last functioning hospital. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wKluf25Or0 

Sellafield cleanup cost rises to £136bn amid tensions with Treasury. 

 Japan struggles to find nuclear waste disposal site.

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Climate. Climate Goal “Will Be Dead Within a Few Years” Unless World Acts, UN Warns.     UNEP: New climate pledges need ‘quantum leap’ in ambition to deliver Paris goals.‘Climate crunch time’: UN warns world risks over 3C warming without urgent action this decade. 

‘We have emotions too’: Climate scientists respond to attacks on objectivity. 

Cop29 host Azerbaijan set for major fossil gas expansion, report says.

Biodiversity. Humanity is on the verge of ‘shattering Earth’s natural limits’, say experts in biodiversity warning

Noel’s notes.  Weep for Gaza, the Palestinians, weep for the Jews- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wKluf25Or0    Behind the really nasty “NICE” nuclear energy push to control the November COP Climate Change Conference. The world’s top lying nuclear salesman is after your climate action money.

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AUSTRALIA. Top Australian honour (whaa-at !!!!) for American politician who helped push Australia into the AUKUS agreement.    Union slams “false hope” in nuclear push, warns energy jobs at risk. Matt Kean lambasts ‘wild fantasy’ of former Coalition colleagues to extend coal power and build nuclear plants. Drink up: Peter Dutton needs one billion empty Coke cans to store his nuclear waste.     More nuclear news headlines at https://antinuclear.net/2024/10/24/australian-nuclear-news-21-28-october/

NUCLEAR ITEMS.

ATROCITIES. The Gazafication of Lebanon: Israel Blows up Nabatieh City Hall, kills Mayor and Aid Workers. When The Holocaust Returned It Came Denouncing Anti-Semitism And Wearing A Star Of David.

CLIMATE. Nuclear lobby on track to sabotage COP29 . Book: Meltdown nightmares: silent spring for climate change.

CIVIL LIBERTIES. Literary Institutions Are Pressuring Authors to Remain Silent About Gaza.

ECONOMICS. Cost overruns at Sellafield nuclear waste site to hit £136bn ALSO AT …..

EDUCATION. Nuclear lobby continues to infiltrate education. Nuclear lobby propagandises to kids AGAIN!

EMPLOYMENT. Green jobs and green skills – the state of play.

ENERGY. How data centres will cut carbon emissions, not increase them. Will AI’s huge energy demands spur a nuclear renaissance?

ENVIRONMENT. ‘Millions of fish could die’ under current Hinkley Point C plan. Fears salt marsh plan could lead to ‘destruction’ of Severn Vale.   Somerset village would be devastated by salt marsh plans.  Navy ‘Innovation’ Center  for “warfighting capabilities” will harm the Monterey Peninsula and ocean. Wildlife Refuge’s Toxic Past Still A Colorado Concern. Inside the radioactive island with mutant sharks that was used to test nuclear bombs.

EVENTS. Petition (UK). Scrutinise Sizewell C

HEALTH. Crew members on Royal Navy nuclear submarine left with ‘low supplies’ and suffering fatigue.

LEGAL. UK Snubs Council of Europe Over Assange Inquiry. Fighting for More Evidence of Assange’s Political Prosecution.

MEDIA. Media Hawks Make Case for War Against Iran. Israel Continues Its War On Journalism. Let’s talk about…Mainstream Media (MSM) Coverage of Israeli War Crimes. Western Press Scramble To Frame Israel’s Attack On Iran As Self Defense. Ha ha – Facebook removed my post AGAIN!

OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . ‘Nuclear waste would be disaster for our seaside’.

PLUTONIUM. Isotopic signature of plutonium accumulated in cryoconite on glaciers worldwide.

POLITICS.

• Ontario town starts voting today on willingness to host ‘forever’ nuclear waste storage site.
• The New Nuclear Push: New Package, Same Lies.
• Harris admits to US/Israeli genocide in Gaza….then says ‘Oops, never mind’.
• Crippling The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA): The Knesset’s Collective Punishment of Palestinians.
• Slovenia cancels referendum on new nuclear plant. Slovenia’s referendum on new nuclear cancelled.
• MP Steffan Aquarone says scrap Norfolk nuclear power plans.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. Path to peace in Ukraine is thru negotiated settlement, not escalatory war that could go nuclear.

Iran complains to IAEA about possible Israeli attack on nuclear sites. Biden to Bibi: ‘OK to continue Gaza genocide till after election’. President Biden’s depraved last 15 months enables Israel’s genocidal destruction of Gaza.

SAFETY.Iran complains to UN nuclear watchdog about Israeli threats against its nuclear sites.US nuclear regulator kicks off review on Three Mile Island restart.Letter laments the unscientific assurances of safety by spokesmen from the nuclear industry.Are Royal Navy nuclear deterrent submarines being re-supplied mid-patrol?

SECRETS and LIES. Mini-Nukes, Big Bucks: The Interests Behind the SMR Push.US authorizes CIA mercenaries to run biometric concentration camps in Gaza Strip.Secrecy over radioactive pollution from nuclear bases.

SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. Space Tech Is How Israel Targets Doctors’ & Journalists’ Homes For Bombing.

SPINBUSTER. Alistair Osborne – nuclear is waste of time and money– ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2024/10/25/2-a-alistair-osborne-nuclear-is-waste-of-time-and-money/‘You couldn’t make this up’: Expert pans Ontario nuclear option.

TECHNOLOGY. Three Mile Island nuclear plant gears up for Big Tech reboot.

URANIUM. Nuclear Energy Firm Orano Halts Niger Uranium Production

WASTES.

• Google and Amazon Are Betting Big on Nuclear: No One Has a Plan for the Radioactive Waste ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2024/10/28/1-b1-google-and-amazon-are-betting-big-on-nuclear-no-one-has-a-plan-for-the-radioactive-waste/
• Nuclear waste plant ‘leaking 2,100 litres of contaminated water a day’– ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2024/10/25/2-b1-nuclear-waste-plant-leaking-2100-litres-of-contaminated-water-a-day/
• Has Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization earned the public’s trust? – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2024/10/26/1-b1-has-canadas-nuclear-waste-management-organization-earned-the-publics-trust/
• Decommissioning. Last German nuclear power plant to receives decommissioning and dismantling permit.
• Britain ‘must speed up’ disposal of old nuclear submarines.
• Japan to resume trial removal of Fukushima nuclear debris, reports say.

WAR and CONFLICT. Israel strikes Iran military targets amid fears of a wider war.

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. CND condemns ‘outrageous railroading’ of US-UK nuclear agreement renewal through Parliament.

October 29, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina reviews