This week’s non-corporate nuclear news
Some bits of good news – Small Chinese County Reverses Desertification with Arduous Tree-Planting Method Across 240,000 Acres. WHO Declares Kenya Free of This Deadly Tropical Parasite After Decades of Suffering.
Washington State Protects the Old-Growth Forests of Tomorrow, Creates 77,000 Acres of ‘Legacy Forests’.
TOP STORIES.
The Detached Cruelty of Air Power– From Guernica to Gaza Mass Killers Have Been Above It All.
How France’s nuclear dream became a financial nightmare.
Is the UK’s giant new nuclear power station “unbuildable”? -ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/08/30/1-a-is-the-uks-giant-new-nuclear-power-station-unbuildable/
Unaudited Power: The Military Budget That Nobody Controls.
Dauntingly long, and with an inflammatory title, this article is nevertheless a compelling read – Gaza to Donbass: How Israel and Ukraine Built a Fascist, Transnational War Machine.
AUSTRALIA. Think Tanker Demands for AUKUS: What Australia Should do with US Submarines.
Point of Order: Antisemitism Summit raises ethics eyebrows.
NUCLEAR ITEMS
ART and CULTURE. Atomic Bill and the Payment Due.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Trump & the Russophobes.
ATROCITIES. Entire UN Security Council Except US Says Gaza Famine ‘Man-Made’ as 10 More People Starve to Death.
Eighteen Palestinians Starve to Death in Gaza Over Three Days Due to Israeli Siege – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p5UVrz1KLg
Report: Smotrich Told IDF Chief That Anyone Who Doesn’t Evacuate Gaza City Can ‘Die of Hunger or Surrender’.
Why has Donald Trump not spoken out about the famine in Gaza? | Inside Story.
| ECONOMICS. The World Bank can now fund nuclear energy projects: Here’s what’s next.The lunacy of Britain’s Sizewell C nuclear project – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/08/31/2-a-the-lunacy-of-britains-sizewell-c-nuclear-project/On fusion liability, UK Energy Minister completely sidelines the issue. |
| ENVIRONMENT. ‘It doesn’t make sense’: Marine biologist on Kenya’s proposed nuclear power plant. |
| EVENTS. 2nd September CND Webinar – From Hiroshima to Today: Jeremy Corbyn & Caroline Lucas report back – Register here. 9th September (7 – 8 pm AEST) – ZOOM- What Remains: Nuclear Legacies of the Montebello Islands. Please join us by registering here. 15 September – Webinar -AUKUS – End it Now! – https://events.humanitix.com/aukus-end-it-now |
MEDIA. Israel’s Killing of Journalists Follows a Pattern of Silencing Palestinian Media That Stretches Back to 1967. Israel Bombs Gaza Hospital, Kills 5 Journalists from AP, Al Jazeera, Reuters, NBC – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k9PdldBcwY
Chicago Tribune letters again avoid reality of Ukraine’s impending battlefield defeat.
| OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Ecological Justice group explains impacts of the nuclear project on Alberta. |
| PERSONAL STORIES. The evolution of Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Israel-Ukraine connection. |
| PLUTONIUM. Government allocates £154m for plutonium disposal. |
| POLITICS. Peace in Ukraine spells disaster for mainstream political parties in Europe. Why won’t 519 other congresspersons join Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green and 13 other congresspersons in condemning US enabled Israeli genocide in Gaza? East Lothian Council calls for a study into new nuclear at Torness. |
| POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. Russia outsmarts France with nuclear power move in Niger. Iran accuses Europe of surrendering nuclear deal to Trump’s veto. UN inspectors back in Iran as IAEA chief gets protection over Tehran threat. Iran parliament presses government to apply law limiting IAEA cooperation. |
SAFETY. OUR NUCLEAR WORLD: PICK YOUR TARGET.
Fears are rising about the safety of a nuclear power plant in Russia after a Ukrainian attack overnight. What will happen if the Ukrainian Armed Forces attempt to strike the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant?- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/08/31/2-b1-what-will-happen-if-the-ukrainian-armed-forces-attempt-to-strike-the-kursk-nuclear-power-plant/
Donald Trump’s assault on U.S. nuclear watchdog raises safety concerns- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/08/30/1-b1-donald-trumps-assault-on-u-s-nuclear-watchdog-raises-safety-concerns/
Japan exploring whether AI could help inspect its nuclear power plants.
| SECRETS and LIES. UK aware of Israel’s ‘terror’ for over 20 years.Russian engineer-physicist Ozharovsky spoke about deportation from Mongolian- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/08/31/2-b1-russian-engineer-physicist-ozharovsky-spoke-about-deportation-from-mongolia/ |
| SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. Is Nasa’s nuclear moon plan sheer lunacy? |
| SPINBUSTER. Alberta Revives Its Nuclear Energy Dreams. |
| TECHNOLOGY. Indonesia Bets On Thorcon’s Molten Salt Reactor, But History Suggests Trouble Ahead. The nuclear fusion delusion -Government proposals re Nuclear Fusion Siting Policy. How AI and surveillance capitalism are undermining democracy. |
| WASTES. ‘Nuclear Priests’ could warn future people about wastes under the Irish Sea – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/08/27/2-a-nuclear-priests-could-warn-future-people-about-wastes-under-the-irish-sea/ Wastewater release from Fukushima nuclear plant enters third year. Podcast | The 30-year journey to an underground facility for long-term nuclear waste storage. Assessment of Asse storage chamber conditions begins. Radioactive waste burning by nuclear transmutation: CoRWM position paper. |
| WAR and CONFLICT. Russia reports blaze at one of its biggest nuclear power plants. Ukraine Drone Strikes Hit Russia’s Nuclear Plant & Fuel Terminal | War Escalates – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVmxyRaffmU |
| WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. An Elbit-Bain Consortium is Nightmare Fuel: the UK Government Must Not Award £2bn Contract to These Corporate Horrors. Biggest nuclear tests in history: Tsar Bomba, Castle Bravo and their global impact. |
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