Australian nuclear news April 1st – 7th.
Headlines as they come in:
- Uranium stocks dumped as market ‘paralysis’ intensifies.
- Dutton’s ‘nuclear thought bubble’ needs to be popped.
- Trump tariffs spark questions over US alliance.
- Littleproud’s great pretence on nuclear insurance, as sparkies attack Coalition nuke proposals.
- This ain’t no April fools: Nuclear support melts down in proposed nuclear communities.
- Secret AUKUS nuclear waste site docs in Cabinet lockdown.
- End AUKUS
- From the archives– Poison in the Heart – The Nuclear Wasting of South Australia,
- Electrical Trades Union goes nuclear against Dutton.
- Nuclear power has no place in Australia’s energy transition.
Nuclear news this week – not industry handouts
Some bits of good news – Being kind and believing others are kind – makes you happier than wealth: Happiness Report ranks 150 countries.
Conservation efforts are bringing species back from the brink, even as overall biodiversity falls.
Analysis showed climate action is a win for the global economy.
TOP STORIES. Trump threatens bombs if Iran doesn’t make nuclear deal. Netanyahu’s nuclear gamble: The risks of escalation with Iran.
. The US hypocrisy about Israel’s nuclear weapons must stop.
EDF reduces stake in Sizewell C Nuclear as boss sacked.
Nuclear experts pour cold water on US idea to restore and run Ukrainian power plant.
European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Finds Ukraine Responsible for Odessa Massacre.
From the archives– Poison in the Heart – The Nuclear Wasting of South Australia,
Climate. Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House.
Noel’s notes. Australia’s MUMS FOR NUCLEAR – propaganda wheels within wheels.
AUSTRALIA.
- The Australian Electoral Commission is having words with Nuclear for Australia as the group spends $100,000s on its campaign.
- Proposed Queensland nuclear power plants risk contaminating water supplies in event of disaster, research finds.
- Avalon Air Show: Arms deals, weapons of destruction and family fun.
- I’m a Liberal and I want Dutton to drop nuclear. Now’s the perfect time to do it.
- Why The US Australia Alliance Needs a Rethink.
- More Australian nuclear news at https://antinuclear.net/2025/03/25/australian-nuclear-news-march-25-31/
NUCLEAR ITEMS
| ATROCITIES. Report: Israel Planning More Aggressive Invasion of Gaza |
| CIVIL LIBERTIES. CODEPINK Responds to US Senate McCarthy-Style Attack. |
| ECONOMICS. Finland’s Fortum says building new nuclear power is too expensive, for now.France delays EPR2 reactors to 2038. UK Government investment continues squeeze on EDF’s share of Sizewell C. It’s time to stop Sizewell C to generate ‘Warm Homes’ jobs instead. Why the nuclear renaissance is far from certain. |
| ENERGY. Finland backs green hydrogen as Fortum pauses nuclear expansion. As Nuke Power Dies, Lithium Must Not Be the New Plutonium. |
| HISTORY. “Born Violent: The Origins of Nuclear Power” by Robert (Bo) Jacobs. Britain’s worst nuclear disaster: the Windscale fire of 1957. |
| INDIGENOUS ISSUES. ‘Protect our future’: Alaskan Indigenous town fights ‘destructive’ uranium mine project |
| OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Leona Morgan – Rally and March to Abolish Nuclear Weapons in front of the UN – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XB-TQWWIi4 Redirect Sizewell C funding to the Warm Homes Plan, say campaigners. |
POLITICS. A nuclear Svengali on Capitol Hill?
U.S Dept of Energy Reissues $900M Nuclear SMR Opportunity, Scraps Community Criteria to Focus on Technical Merit.
Will Texas Become ‘the Epicenter of a National Nuclear Renaissance’?- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/03/31/1-b1-will-texas-become-the-epicenter-of-a-national-nuclear-renaissance/
POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.
- The US has the power to switch off the UK’s nuclear subs – a big problem as Donald Trump becomes an unreliable partner. Now that Washington is potentially an unreliable ally, the UK needs to revisit its nuclear strategy.
- France’s UK energy apathy poses nuclear problem for Labour.
- Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant to stay in Russian control, Moscow says. Ukraine will have to make territorial concessions – Waltz.
- Ukraine and Israel are not US allies.
- Iran rejects direct nuclear talks with Trump, open to indirect negotiations. US seeks full dismantling of Iran’s nuclear program. Trump warns of ‘bad, bad things’ for Iran if nuclear deal not reached-Trump’s advisor says.
- I’m Oppenheimer’s grandson: I support Trump’s pursuit of nuclear diplomacy
| SAFETY. Risks posed by hole in protective shell over Chernobyl. Russ How a Cheap Drone Punctured Chernobyl’s 40,000-Ton Shield. Russia rules out transferring control over Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant to Ukraine. |
| SECRETS and LIES. More lies from British nuclear power advocate Zion Lights.Trump Killed Public War Research: Stargate Will Make It Secret—and Far More Dangerous. |
| SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. The rush to war in space only needs a Gulf of Tonkin incident, and then what happens |
| TECHNOLOGY. Behind the hype -“New wave of smaller, cheaper nuclear reactors sends US states racing to attract the industry “. |
| URANIUM. Greenland’s uranium ban likely to continue. |
| WASTES. China calls for strict, long-term international supervision over Fukushima wastewater discharge: spokesman. Second shipment of high level waste departs UK for Germany. Nuclear waste centre delayed. Dounreay more likely to build up than knock down -ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/03/31/1-dounreay-more-likely-to-build-up-than-knock-down/ Dounreay learns what its share of £4bn decommissioning cash will be. |
| WAR and CONFLICT. An Extreme Ultimatum for Iran. |
| WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. Calls to restart nuclear weapons tests stir dismay and debate among scientists. Militarize Ukraine ‘to the teeth’ – Finnish president. ‘Deeply concerning’: British General’s Israeli weapons job criticised. Is your insurance company funding Israeli war crimes? Trump’s Star Wars Revival: The Golden Dome Antimissile Fantasy. New nuclear arms race looms as US threatens to pull atomic shield. Walt Zlotow: UK to push 250,000 Brits into poverty to increase unneeded defense spending. |
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