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This week’s NON-CORPORATE nuclear news

Some bits of good news – Giant bird once hunted to extinction returns to Scotland after 500 years. 

New Bamboo Plantations Are Healing Villages Choked by Toxic Ash from Coal Plants in India .  What Happens When You Give Teens No-Strings Cash?

TOP STORIES. 

Israel’s genocide is big business – and the face of the future. Chris Hedges: The Gaza Riviera. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PslOp883rfI 

We’re having a heatwave -and nuclear power can’t cope. 

Trillion dollar AUKUS subs plus nuclear waste in perpetuity?

Sizewell C loans could see project cost rise above Hinkley to £47.7bn

Climate. Welcome to Disaster World. Greenpeace hails Italian court ruling allowing climate case against energy company Eni to continue.

AUSTRALIA. AUKUS Submarine Regulations: FoE Adelaide submission. Australia won’t receive Aukus nuclear submarines unless US doubles shipbuilding, admiral warns. 

Out of Step with the World: Australia’s Refusal to Recognise Palestine is a Moral Failure . . Sanction Israel Now – APH Convergence. Jillian Segal and the Israel Lobby’s TERRIFYING Plan for Australia –https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1b7J7pzgNo An Israel voice to Parliament? | Scam of the Week.

NUCLEAR ITEMS.

ATROCITIES. 
“Precisely Designed Mass Starvation”: Aid Access as Weapon in Israel’s War on Gaza, Researchers Find.
 “One Meal Every Three Days”: Journalist & Aid Worker Back from Gaza on Stark Reality on the Ground. Intentional Policies: Dystopian Killing Fields and Starvation in Gaza.

CULTURE and ART. Tom Lehrer, acclaimed musical satirist of cold war era, dies aged 97. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIoBrob3bjI

ECONOMICS. Investment decision to be made on Sizewell C nuclear- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/07/24/1-b1-investment-decision-to-be-made-on-sizewell-c-nuclear/

Ed Miliband admits Sizewell C cost has almost doubled to £38bn. Sizewell C’s Final Investment Decision has only crawled over the line (- with the public purse).

EDF not repeating its costly Hinkley nuclear blunder – for Sizewell C, the UK tax-payers will cop the costs.

Centrica really can’t lose at Sizewell – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/07/24/1-b1-centrica-really-cant-lose-at-sizewell/

EDF shifts nuclear strategy to focus on domestic projects.

ETHICS and RELIGION. It’s A Genocide, But It’s Also So Much More Than That – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77JnyN3lo3cGaza Isn’t Starving, It Is Being Starved.

HEALTH. Nuclear waste exposure in childhood associated with higher cancer incidence. Why Starmer’s nuclear power push raises cancer fears – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/07/25/1-b1-why-starmers-nuclear-power-push-raises-cancer-fears/

HISTORY. Origins of Israel’s nuclear ambiguity lie in a secret deal forged between Richard Nixon and Golda Meir – podcast.The Kyshtym disaster: Russia’s hidden nuclear crisis.

LEGAL. Belgian court bans military shipments to Israel in activist victory.Israel is changing the legal system governing the West Bank to accelerate annexation: report.

MEDIA. Google Helped Israel Spread War Propaganda to 45 Million Europeans.Ukrainian bots want the BBC to endorse war crimes.Four Major News Agencies Warn Gaza Staff Face Starvation Due to Israeli Blockade.

POLITICS .Israel just drew a new map – without saying it out loud. SNP slam ‘toxic’ Sizewell-C costs for Scottish energy bills ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/07/28/1-b1-snp-slam-toxic-sizewell-c-costs-for-scottish-energy-bills/ Why Nuclear Power in Scotland is not Needed, Economic, Wanted or Safe. Reaction to Sizewell C deal: too expensive, too slow.  East Suffolk Council Statement following Sizewell C Final Investment Decision announcement.  How Britain enticed investors to back its costly new nuclear plant – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/07/24/1-b1-how-britain-enticed-investors-to-back-its-costly-new-nuclear-plant/  On the hook! Taxpayers to foot much of £38 billion bill for Sizewell C farce.  Ministers prepare to reduce UK stake in Sizewell C nuclear project- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/07/24/1-b1-ministers-prepare-to-reduce-uk-stake-in-sizewell-c-nuclear-project/  ‘A heroic endeavour’: Sizewell C’s £38bn plan to keep the lights on – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/07/28/1-b1-a-heroic-endeavour-sizewell-cs-38bn-plan-to-keep-the-lights-on/   Anas Sarwar urged to break silence on Labour’s ‘nuclear tax’ for ScotsIran to resume nuclear programme as a matter of ‘national pride’ .Pushing Military Spending and Neoliberal Austerity, French PM Emulates Trump.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY Trump’s Ukraine Plan: Power Play or Exit Strategy? Trump has backed himself into a corner on Ukraine. US congresswoman labels Zelensky ‘dictator’.Predictably, there was no progress in Istanbul peace talks. US and Israel Quit Gaza Ceasefire Talks in Doha as Palestinians Starve to Death. Anti-Genocide Protesters Block Hundreds of Israeli Tourists From Disembarking in Greek Port.  Iran holds ‘frank’ nuclear talks with European powers amid sanctions threat

SAFETY. Incidents. French submarine-maker targeted by hackers. Chinese hackers gain access to US oversight of nuclear weapons in widespread Microsoft hack: report. 5 worst nuclear disasters from around the world. The real story of Chernobyl, the worst nuclear disaster in history. Trump axes nuclear waste oversight panel. US Nuclear Industry Revival on the Horizon. The next Chernobyl? Soviet-era nuclear power plant is branded a ‘ticking time bomb’ that could go off at ‘any moment’ Time to Step Up – Campaigner calls on MP to challenge decision to give fusion indemnity over accident liabilities. The Flamanville EPR is still shut down: we know more after the visit of the nuclear regulator.

SECRETS and LIES. From hero to zero- When western leaders realised that Zelensky isn’t a corruption-fighting democrat. Dell’s complicity in Israel’s genocide. They Intend To Keep Lying About Gaza Until They’ve Emptied It Out. They’re Starving Civilians To Steal A Palestinian Territory, And They’re Lying About It. Tory peer apologises for helping set up ministerial meeting for a nuclear firm he advises. Ed Miliband put up your energy bills (for Sizewell nuclear)– and hoped you wouldn’t notice.

SPINBUSTER. MAGA Going to Israel for Propaganda Training.

TECHNOLOGY. Fusion energy start-up claims to have cracked alchemy– ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/07/25/1-b-fusion-energy-start-up-claims-to-have-cracked-alchemy/ UK Government drops plans to include smaller nuclear fusion energy plants in NSIP regime.

WAR and CONFLICT. Grave Nation: Ukrainian Cemetery Mega-Project Reveals Dimming Military Hopes.

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. The inside story of how America sent nuclear weapons to Britain. US nuclear weapons ‘on UK soil’ for first time in 17 years- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/07/24/1-b1-us-nuclear-weapons-on-uk-soil-for-first-time-in-17-years/ Does Israel have secret nuclear weapons?- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBRWQvICQ9w  How civil nuclear power funds nuclear weapons – video. Entering a Golden Age for War Profiteers.

July 29, 2025 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter