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Another troubling week in nuclear news

Some bits of good news –  
 10 Ways Investing in Children’s Well-Being Changed the World      
China is Rewiring  the Global South With Clean Power.   We’re making child marriages a thing of the past in Malaysia.  

TOP STORIES.

Zelensky needs to go …been risking nuclear war far too long.

What Trump got right about nuclear weapons—and how to step back from the brink. 

Global security arrangements “unravelling”, UN chief warns nuclear disarmament conference. 

The Supreme Court faces the absurdly difficult problem of where to put nuclear waste. 

More powerful than Hiroshima: how the largest ever nuclear weapons test built a nation of leaders in the Marshall Islands.

Climate. A Lawsuit Against Greenpeace Is Meant to Bankrupt It and Deter Public Protests, Environmental Groups Warn. Total collapse of vital Atlantic currents unlikely this century, study finds.

Noel’s notes. Ukraine to soon jump back out of the fire and into the frying-pan?

AUSTRALIA. 

• AUKUS ‘impact assessment’ report ignores nuclear submarine risks in South Australia. Not everyone knows acronyms’: Australian politicians shrug off Trump blunder on AUKUS. 
• If China can’t scale nuclear, Australia’s got Buckley’s. Nuclear reactors could become targets of war, defence experts warn. 
• New report skewers Coalition’s contentious nuclear plan – and reignites Australia’s energy debate.   Too slow, too risky, too impractical: Interim senate report pans nuclear. Chinese warships sailing the Tasman Sea expose AUKUS folly.
• Parliamentary inquiry finds nuclear is high risk, zero reward. Peter Dutton abandons global ‘Paris Agreement’ to phase out climate pollution by 2050. Trump-lite: Coalition promises purge of experts who call out nuclear bunkum.  
•  More Australian nuclear news at https://antinuclear.net/2025/02/26/australian-nuclear-news-week-to-4th-march/

NUCLEAR ITEMS

ECONOMICS. 

• New report details nuclear power’s demise. Nuclear power struggling to maintain current level of stagnation, let alone achieve any growth. 
• Stop government handouts to EDF for Hinkley Point C. Rachel Reeves eyes cuts to nuclear in spending review. Small modular reactor plans edge closer, amid claims that the technology makes no economic sense . 
• EDF appears to consider reduced final stake in Sizewell C to as low as 10% Sellafield nuclear site plans cuts as chief says £2.8bn funding ‘not enough’. Nuclear site warns £2.8bn budget is ‘not enough’. UK construction and engineering firm Costain has secured a multi-millionpound contract to support the construction of the Sizewell C nuclear powerplant -ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/02/28/2-b-uk-construction-and-engineering-firm-costain-has-secured-a-multi-millionpound-contract-to-support-the-construction-of-the-sizewell-c-nuclear-powerplant/ 
• We can’t afford Doug Ford’s nuclear fantasy.

ENERGY. UK Energy Secretary Signals China Pivot.

ENVIRONMENT. ‘Fish disco’ row risks fresh delays to Hinkley Point nuclear plant.

ETHICS and RELIGION. Archbishop Gallagher: Nuclear weapons pose existential threat.

EVENTS.  Nuclear Ban Week – the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).   1 March -Remembering All Nuclear Victims. 6 March – WEBINAR –Arming for Armageddon: How US Militarism could lead to Nuclear War

HEALTH. Nuclear reactors killing Americans at accelerating rate.

LEGAL. SCOTUS goes nuclear: Justices’ decision could seal spent fuel storage options for decades. Beyond Nuclear files two relicensing legal actions.

OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . 93% say NO: latest polls in Lincolnshire condemn nuke dump plan

PERSONAL STORIES. The island priest who fought a nuclear rockets range.

POLITICS. 

• Techno-Fascism Comes to America. German election results tilt EU back toward nuclear energy. 
• How the Warfare State Paved the Way for a Trumpist Autocracy. 
• The Guardian view on UK PM’s gamble: exploiting crisis to remake Labour was a step too far for an ally.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. Donald Trump was rude to Zelensky, but he did tell him the hard truths. Zelensky: Victim of Colosseum Politics.

The National goes to the UN: The fight for nuclear disarmament– ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/02/27/1-b1-scotus-goes-nuclear-justices-decision-could-seal-spent-fuel-storage-options-for-decades/ 

US correct to vote against UN resolution solely condemning Russia for Ukraine war. The pro-war lobby in the West needs to come up with new ideas, rather than saying the same old things.

SAFETY. United States: White House Threatens Nuclear Regulatory Commission‘s Independence. IAEA Director General Statement on Fire Situation in Chernobyl nuclear station. Ontario’s outdated nuclear vision poses serious safety and financial risks.

A Single Trumputin Drone Can Turn the “Peaceful Atom” Into World War 3. Vladimir Putin right now has in his sights nearly The physical hazards of nuclear energy. IAEA mission arrives at nuclear plant in Ukraine through Russia.

URANIUM. As tensions rise, Canada to lean on U.S. for uranium enrichment.

WASTES. Tonnes of nuclear waste to be sent back to Europe. Hinkley Point C will be a Sellafield waste dump . Nuclear Decommissioning Authority budget raises Sellafield safety concerns. Public concern increasing about nuclear waste shipments west of Sudbury. Election candidates should face nuclear waste questions: group.

WAR and CONFLICT. Israel seen as likely to attack Iran’s nuclear sites by midyear.

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES.

The Pentagon and Starlink Satellites. 

Nuclear weapons are ‘one-way road to annihilation’ warns Guterres. 
Iran on ‘high alert’ amid fears of attack on nuclear sites. Starmer drags 
Britain deeper into war drive. Reawakening a Nuclear Legacy: The Potential Return of the 
US Nuclear Mission to RAF Lakenheath. John Swinney: UK’s nu
clear deterrent offers ‘no tangible benefit’. As Freed Palestinians Describe Torture, 
Trump OKs $3 Billion Arms Package for Israel.

March 4, 2025 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized