Antinuclear

Nuclear news – week to 27 January

Some bits of good news– 

More than 2,400 aid trucks enter Gaza under truce, UN says no big looting issues.  The fastest energy change in history continues.  Protection for half a million hectares of Amazonian forests

TOP STORIES. Operation Stargate, the project to make AI an “essential infrastructure”.

America’s ‘zombie’ nuclear reactors to be revived to power Trump golden age.

Nuclear- not good vibrations in France. Nuclear power: Engie CEO criticises Arizona ambitions to extend Doel and Tihange lifespan. 

When Russian Radar Mistook a Norwegian Scientific Rocket for a U.S. Missile, the World Narrowly Avoided Nuclear War.

From the archives. St Louis radioactively contaminated sites visited by Dr Helen Caldicott

Noel’s notes. Nuclear waste springs eternal in the human folly.   For Australia, the nuclear lobby brings out the big massage!

AUSTRALIA. Miss America and nuclear engineer Grace Stanke will be travelling around Australia with a host of other nuclear experts as a part of the National Nuclear Tour. 

Is the world going nuclear? The hope and hype of nuclear as a climate solution. We know why nuclear build costs are soaring — and Australia faces the biggest increases.   Military Spending vs Social Services: Australia’s Paradox.  

NUCLEAR ITEMS

ECONOMICS.

• “We are no longer investing in nuclear.”- Engie, France. “A question arises in terms of nuclear power: should EDF give up its international ambitions?”
• A new report from the International Energy Agency is bullish on the global nuclear sector, but only if obstacles like cost overruns are addressed.
• East Suffolk MP warned “billions worthlessly invested” in Sizewell C. It is only a matter of time before nuclear development at Bradwell falls by the wayside.
• UAE’s nuclear company seeks to capitalise on AI-induced energy demand in US.

ENERGY California debunks a big myth about renewable energy.Europe posts record negative power prices for 2024 as renewables rise. Green energy in abundance.Wind, not nuclear, is the best way to meet Sweden’s climate goals, leading think tank says. Nine Swedish energy researchers find that new nuclear power is not needed.

ENVIRONMENT. Vegetation being removed to enable upgrade of Sizewell line.Hinkley Point C: EDF says fish issue could delay new plant operation

EVENTS. 9 February -UNITAR Hosts Forum on Nuclear Abolition: 80 Years On

HEALTH. Radiation. The Scientists Who Alerted us to the Dangers of Radiation – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyUjtpysc2Y&t=4s

INDIGENOUS ISSUES. Indigenous group vows to stop nuclear waste shipments unless new deal struck.

LEGAL. Allied Groups Reach Historic Settlement on New Nuclear Bomb Part Production – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/01/21/2-b1-allied-groups-reach-historic-settlement-on-new-nuclear-bomb-part-production/

MEDIA. ‘Acres of Clams’- New documentary tells story of the Clamshell Alliance – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPuE9oKh6-I

PERSONAL STORIES. Pete Wilkinson was well known for Sizewell C campaign work.

POLITICS.

• Memo to Trump: Modify the US policy of sole authority to launch nuclear weapons.
• Trump says he will approve power plants for AI through emergency declaration.
• Legal challenges to infrastructure plans to be blocked in Starmer growth push. Suffolk Coastal MP said priority to hold Sizewell to account.
• Heysham power station debate sparks questions on safety and incidents.
• Anti nuclear activists celebrate fourth banniversary of nuclear weapons.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. Hiroshima, Nagasaki request Trump visit to teach ‘reality’.

SAFETY. Lakenheath: Ministers urged to clarify nuclear deployment. Memo to Trump: Address the new threat of drone-vulnerable nuclear reactors.

SECRETS and LIES. North Korea beats sanctions to acquire key tool for nuclear weapons -ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/01/24/2-b1-north-korea-beats-sanctions-to-acquire-key-tool-for-nuclear-weapons/ The Atlas Network talking about itself

TECHNOLOGY. Nuclear fusion: it’s time for a reality check. Bill Gates’ nuclear energy startup inks new data center deal.

WASTES.

• Sweden’s Nuclear Waste Plan: A 100,000-Year Gamble.
• High likelihood of radioactive waste in smoldering landfill, Missouri officials say.
• UK to dispose of, not re-use, radioactive plutonium stockpile.
• UK Plutonium Disposition Strategy.
• Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s (NWMO) proposed DGR is a speculative unproven concept.
• Northwestern Ontario nuclear waste site selection raises concerns.
• Nuclear Waste: The Dark Side of the Microreactor Boom.
• Brian Goodall slams MP over Rosyth Dockyard nuclear submarines move.
• The Changing Goal Posts of Nuclear Wastes Crazily Earmarked for “Geological Disposal” .

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. Memo to Trump: Cancel US Air Force’s Sentinel ICBM program. Memo to Trump: Cancel the sea-launched nuclear cruise missile. Nuclear Proliferation and the “Nth Country Experiment”

January 27, 2025 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized