Non-corporate nuclear news – too long this week-sorry

Some bits of good news – How Australia Enlisted the Whole Country to Protect Its Biodiversity.
Lessons for a Warming World From Kashmir’s Cooling Caves. Offshore wind farms act as ‘de facto marine reserves’. Weaving a story of hope with nature recovery
TOP STORIES.
Democrats bashing Trump, Putin summit ensuring continued destruction of Ukraine. It’s not ‘Who lost Ukraine?’ It’s ‘Who destroyed Ukraine?
Does Trump have the guts to end America’s lost proxy war against Russia?
Stopping The Gaza Holocaust Is The First Step Toward A Healthy World.
From the archives. Conveniently forgotten and ignored – the 8 years war in Ukraine up to 2022. Setting the record straight on the background to events in Ukraine. The West initiated the Ukraine crisis, and will have to work to fix it.
Climate. Temperature records broken as extreme heat grips parts of Europe. Hellish’: heatwave brings hottest nights on record to the Middle East.
AUSTRALIA. Australia’s F-35 exports a “facilitation of war crimes”: US expert.
‘Disarm now’: Anti-nuke advocate’s message to world leaders at Pine Gap protest.
New report on British nuclear submarines should raise alarm bells across Australia. The nuclear-powered submarine crisis.
Government-funded nuclear is fine for Dan Tehan, but not renewables or climate initiatives.
NUCLEAR ITEMS
| ATROCITIES. Over 100 Children Have Died of Severe Hunger Amid Israeli Siege: Gaza Health Ministry. Israel’s govt issues ‘death sentence’ to remaining captives.Palestinians Displaced in West Bank by Israeli Settlers Ask: Where Can We Go? |
| CLIMATE. Heat Waves Are a Growing Threat to Europe’s Nuclear Power Supply. |
| CIVIL LIBERTIES. Pentagon to Create ‘Domestic Civil Disturbance Quick Reaction Force’. |
| ECONOMICS. Nuclear developers turn to Special Purpose Acquisition Companies – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAJTkL99anI&t=22s Rolls-Royce making fortune from ‘untested new nuclear market’.The cost of the UK’s strategic nuclear deterrent. Nuclear legacy costs far outweigh Germany’s environmental protection investments.. |
| ENERGY. Equinix enters into multiple advanced nuclear deals to power data centers– ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/08/16/1-b1-equinix-enters-into-multiple-advanced-nuclear-deals-to-power-data-centers/ |
| ENVIRONMENT. Swarm of jellyfish shuts nuclear power plant in France. A Mob of Alien Creatures Just Took 4 Nuclear Reactors Completely Offline. Government faces calls to investigate Faslane nuclear leak. Radioactive water ‘leaked into’ loch from Faslane nuclear base. Rachel Reeves to cut ‘bats and newts’ in boost to developers- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/08/18/1-b1-rachel-reeves-to-cut-bats-and-newts-in-boost-to-developers/ |
| ETHICS and RELIGION. Vonnegut on Nagasaki: “The most racist, nastiest act by this country, after human slavery” |
| EVENTS. PETITION: Urgent: Insist Cumberland Council Fulfill Their Nuclear Democratic Duty |
| HEALTH. Nuclear wasps fallout explodes as worker from bomb factory blows the lid on the true threat of the crisis… while battling FIVE cancers. |
| LEGAL. Netanyahu’s Plan To Occupy Gaza Violates World Court Ruling That Israeli Occupation is Illegal. TASC’s new legal challenge against Sizewell C’s secret flood defences. Judicial review sought at High Court into flood barriers. Quebec engineering body finds former SNC-Lavalin CEO guilty on multiple counts of misconduct. |
| MEDIA. Israel Assassinates More Journalists To Hide Its Planned War Crimes. Slaying and Censoring the Journalists: The Murder of Anas al-Sharif. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6w0NF5Htbs Cowardly Israeli Murder of 5 Journalists, including Anas al-Sharif, Smearing them as Hamas. |
| OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Hundreds rally in Taipei against restart of No. 3 nuclear power plant. |
| PERSONAL STORIES. Anas Al-Sharif’s Final Message.My years reporting on Gaza broke me down- Why did it take so long for the world to become outraged? |
| POLITICS. Smotrich Announces Major West Bank Settlement Expansion To ‘Bury the Idea of a Palestinian State’. Coulport nuclear leaks spark alarm among local nuclear campaigners -ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/08/16/1-b1-coulport-nuclear-leaks-spark-alarm-among-local-nuclear-campaigners/ Scottish independence can rid us of nuclear abomination. Switzerland moves to lift ban on new nuclear power plants – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/08/17/2-b1-switzerland-moves-to-lift-ban-on-new-nuclear-power-plants/ Taiwan set to hold referendum on restarting last nuclear reactor. |
| POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY . Breaking the Ice in Alaska: Why Diplomacy Still Matters. Review of the Alaska meeting – The goal is always domination. Trump on Summit with Putin: We Made Great Progress Today. Trump meets with Putin: the non-event that was sold as history. No ceasefire, no deal: What summit means for Trump, Putin and Ukraine. The Alaskan Summit: Possible Agenda and Outcomes.War’s final act: Zelensky’s dangerous play to crash Russia-US talks. Zelensky Rejects Idea of Ceding Territory to Russia as Trump and Putin Prepare for Alaska Summit. EU’s Kallas urges ‘pressure on Russia’ ahead of Putin-Trump talks . The West is in panic as Israel’s plan for ‘full control’ of Gaza heralds a new Nakba. Tehran faults UN nuclear watchdog over response to Israeli, US attacks. Iran’s nuclear chief urges IAEA to condemn Israeli terrorism. |
| SAFETY.UN nuclear watchdog official to visit Iran in a bid to improve ties but no inspections planned. Incident. Serious nuclear incident’ took place at Scottish Navy base – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/08/17/2-b1-serious-nuclear-incident-took-place-at-scottish-navy-base/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD2b-rM-aeQ Dumbing down: UK Taskforce charged with pushing nuclear deregulation . UK Labour eye ‘utterly reckless’ bonfire of nuclear energy regulations. Nuclear Reactor Faces 18 Hours Without Cooling as “Pipes Burst Like Burning Arteries” Following Technician’s Mistake in Shocking Safety Breakdown. |
| SECRETS and LIES. Declassified: CIA’s Covert Ukraine Invasion Plan.Israel Is Beginning To Choke On Its Own Lies. A Shield of Lies: Netanyahu’s Battle Against the World. ‘A million calls an hour’: Israel using Microsoft cloud for mass surveillance of Palestine. Ministry of Defence urged to publish full details of Faslane incident– ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/08/18/1-b1-ministry-of-defence-urged-to-publish-full-details-of-faslane-incident/ |
| SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. Reckon you can put a nuclear reactor on the Moon? |
| SPINBUSTER. Trump Declares Victory After Putin Summit: The Spin Begins. |
| URANIUM. Russian uranium being used at Sizewell B site in Suffolk. |
| WASTES. Geological disposal facility for nuclear waste could cost £54bn and ‘appears unachievable’. Unproven and costly: Nuclear Waste Dump ‘Red’ Rated as Unachievable. |
| WAR and CONFLICT. Russia says it prevented a Ukrainian drone attack on the Smolensk nuclear power plant – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/08/18/1-b1-russia-federal-says-it-prevented-a-ukrainian-drone-attack-on-the-smolensk-nuclear-power-plant/Russia makes battlefield breakthrough in urgent push for land.Kaliningrad Gambit: NATO’s Last Desperate Bluff /Spark for World War III? |
| WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. Germany’s Merz to Israel’s Netanyahu: ‘No more genocide weapons for you.’ In major shift, Germany ends arms exports to Israel amid Netanyahu’s Gaza takeover plan. US flies nuclear bombs to Britain. Don’t believe the hype about nuclear weapons. The ‘third nuclear age’ is a politically motivated label that seeks to justify a renewed arms race. |
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