Nuclear news – week to 25 February

Some bits of good news. Nine Asian countries have halved child mortality since 2000. The Global South is deploying renewables twice as fast as the Global North. Arctic Cleanup removes 130 tons of trash and aims to improve trash cleanups worldwide

—very difficult now to stay off the subjects of Ukraine and Israel, but I have tried… (both are so on the nuclear brink)

From the archives. Restless radioactive remains are still stirring in Chernobyl’s nuclear tomb.

Climate, World’s glaciers melting faster than ever recorded.

Noel’s notes. A dramatic development in the Ukraine situation.

NUCLEAR ITEMS

ECONOMICS

UK’s Hinkley Point C nuclear plant yet to attract new investors, says EDF boss. UK government in “poor negotiating position” as Centrica vague about investing in the new Sizewell C nuclear power station.
Uncertain nuclear partnership: Negotiations between ČEZ and Rolls-Royce.groups raise $1.5bn amid race to power AI boom. At Great Cost: The companies building nuclear weapons and their financiers show 260 profiteers from the nuclear weapons industry.
X-Energy threatens to pull out of building nuclear plants in Britain. Amazon-backed nuclear power developer X-Energy threatens to move investment away from UK.
Rolls-Royce ‘resists pressure’ to put Czech parts in mini-nuclear reactors. .

MEDIA. Film Review- Special Operation: The Invasion of Chornobyl.

PERSONAL STORIES. Heartbreaking tale of American deformed by nuclear radiation who was abandoned and viewed as a ‘monster’.

POLITICS. French State Spars With EDF Over Multibillion-Euro Reactor Plan . UK Government Revisiting the nuclear roadmap Inquiry, UK’s first new nuclear site since the 1970s begins licensing. Starmer’s shortsighted push for more nuclear power. Louth MP welcomes council’s decision to pull out of nuclear waste dump group.
Greens opposed to nuclear power plant plans. UK to Partner with Big Tech on Nuclear Powered Data Centers . Technogarchy Goes to Washington..

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.
Amid ‘clear’ threat of nuclear war, Guterres tells Security Council multilateral off-ramp is essential.
Trump can’t denuclearize North Korea. South Korea’s next leader should pursue risk reduction instead.
Hating Trump no reason to oppose Trump Ukraine peace initiative.

SECRETS and LIES. Burying The CIA’s Assange Secrets.

TECHNOLOGY. Dr. Gordon Edwards Testifies on the BWRX-300 Reactor Design Feb 9 2025. Pioneering micro nuclear reactors to be built in Britain,

WAR and CONFLICT. US Strategic Bombers Fly Near Gaza as Israel Threatens To Open ‘Gates of Hell’

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. New Zealand’s Rocket Lab ‘ready to serve’ Pentagon.
Why it would be a bad idea for the Trump administration to conduct a “rapid” nuclear test.
Donald Trump wants to end nuclear weapons funding.

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