Antinuclear

This week – not-the-corporate nuclear news

Some bits of good news: Sustainable Ocean Action: A Global Stocktake of the Our Ocean Conference

How Pakistan pulled off one of the fastest solar revolutions in the world – a “bottom up” revolution.

TOP STORIES Why Is US Congress Silent on the Manmade Nightmare It Is Enabling in Gaza? -Bernie Sanders.         Expulsion and Occupation: Israel’s Proposed Gaza Plan.

Resuscitation at Zaporizhzhia?

From the archives. Conflicts of interest in the Trump group’s push to sell nuclear reactors to Saudi Arabia.

Climate. I just returned from Antarctica: climate change isn’t some far-off problem – it’s here and hitting hard. 

‘Sitting ducks’: the cities most vulnerable to climate disasters -ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/05/07/2-b1-sitting-ducks-the-cities-most-vulnerable-to-climate-disasters/ 

How ‘out of touch’ Tony Blair became a serious threat to climate action.    Two-thirds of global heating caused by richest 10%, study suggests.

5 huge climate opportunities await the next Australian parliament – and it has the numbers to deliver.

Noel’s notes  The pro-nuclear drive and Zionism are intertwined.

AUSTRALIA. 

• Business as usual: Labor stalls on Defence reform as AUKUS woes grow. 
• If the Coalition sticks with nuclear, the fallout will be toxic. Will the Coalition ditch its nuclear power policy? Coalition bombs itself with nuclear energy policy. Australians choose batteries over nuclear after election fought on energy. Scrap nuclear: Key Liberal senator wants radioactive energy plan buried. 
• Poison in the Heart-The Nuclear Wasting of South Australia. 
• Who’s afraid of big, bad China? 
• Front groups working with Zionist actors are promoting Islamophobia. 
• The dark cloud of Murdoch has no silver lining.

NUCLEAR ITEMS.

ECONOMICS. Ontario’s Darlington SMR project to cost nearly $21-billion, significantly higher than expected. Google agrees to fund the development of three new nuclear sites. How Miliband can make renewables cheaper – but there is really no alternative to renewables.

ENERGY. Rooftop solar can be torn out of capital’s hands.

ENVIRONMENT. Sellafield’s massive water abstraction plan for its new construction work has no environmental impact assessment and inadequate monitoring. Ohio EPA launches limited Luckey water testing after independent report shows high radiation in wells.

HISTORY. 80 years on US still embattled in senseless Cold War with Russia.The Anglo-Nazi Global Empire That Almost Was.

LEGAL. Lawsuit Compels Nationwide Public Review of Plutonium Bomb Core Production.

MEDIA. Israel Will Even Persecute Palestinians For Simply Talking To Journalists.

POLITICS. Durbin successor must not be co opted by the Israel Lobby.  [SMRs] Trump wants to speed up construction of more NPP, bypass safety regulations- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/05/12/2-b1-draft-executive-orders-aim-to-speed-construction-of-nuclear-plants/. Trump administration considers orders expediting nuclear plant construction, NYT reports. US Administration’s initial proposal sees cuts to nuclear energy budget.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. Iran calls latest nuclear talks with US ‘difficult’ but both sides agree negotiations will continue. The Stakes of Donald Trump’s Negotiations with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Trump’s trip to Saudi Arabia raises the prospect of US nuclear cooperation with the kingdom. Non Proliferation Preparatory Committee  concludes; Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons states point way forward.

SAFETY.

• The Challenge to Japan’s Nuclear Restart.
• Starmer ignored nuclear watchdog when he blamed regulations for delays. Improvement notice issued at Dounreay nuclear power plant.
• Chernobyl shelter’s drone damage includes 330 openings in outer cladding. Russian drone strike caused tens of millions worth of damage to Chornobyl.
• Zaporizhzhia: Hurdle or catalyst for a peace deal in Ukraine
• Trump tightens control of independent agency overseeing nuclear safety. Trump considers weakening nuclear safety agency in bid for more power plants- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/05/12/1-b1-trump-considers-weakening-nuclear-agency-in-bid-for-more-power-plants/

SECRETS and LIES. The Deep State & the Death of Democracy. ‘It’s deceitful’: Critics slam owners of TMI Unit 2 for not reporting fire at plant.

SPINBUSTER. Who are Britain Remade? Atomic lobby seizes on Spanish blackout .Google tries to greenwash massive AI energy consumption with another vague nuclear deal.

TECHNOLOGY. Westinghouse drops out of UK SMR competition.

URANIUM. Depleted Uranium by Lynda Williams 2025- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_BXI5wVhKU

WAR and CONFLICT. Too Cruel to Even Imagine—Nuclear War in Densely Populated Areas Close the US military bases in Asia!  Nuclear war has never been more likely – Here’s what it would look like now.

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. Nuclear threat is more real than at any time since second World War. Starmer prepares for attack by Russia.

May 12, 2025 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter