This week: Much non-corporate nuclear and related news

Some bits of good news – 

China’s air quality policies have swiftly reduced pollution, improved life expectancy. 

Green sea turtle saved from extinction in major conservation victory. 

Quiet Revolution: Education in Vietnam Drives Poverty Reduction

TOP STORIES. Gaza to become a tax-free ‘billionaire haven’ according to Jared Kushner and Zionist billionaires.

Why Tony Blair governing Gaza would result in more war crimes.

Trump orders CIA to attack Venezuela: US military kills innocent people in war based on lies.  Why hasn’t Trump been arrested for mass premeditated murder in the Caribbean?

Tomahawks, Raytheon, and Zelensky’s $90 billion shopping list at the White House. 

European leaders are unable to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia yet unwilling to face the political consequences of peace in Ukraine. 

Straight from the horses’ mouths: Nuclear is a dead end.
Moscow puts money on the table to raise nuclear subs from Arctic seabed.

Climate. World’s oceans losing their greenness through global heating, study finds. Coral die-off marks Earth’s first climate ‘tipping point’, scientists say.        Climate disasters in first half of 2025 costliest ever on record, research shows.         UN CLIMATE TALKS -Revealed: Only a third of national climate pledges support ‘transition away from fossil fuels’  .

AUSTRALIA. 

• All the way with Donald J. – Albo supporting mass murder.  
• AUKUS. Deal of the century! … For the Americans.AUKUS proves why Australia is no longer a middle power with sovereignty and autonomy.AUKUS: Revolving door, spiralling down.             Australia to make next billion-dollar AUKUS payment ‘shortly’, says minister.  Desperately seeking submariners: why keeping nuclear-powered boats afloat will be Australia’s biggest Aukus challenge. 
• Unconstitutional “evil”. Albo’s plan for more government secrecy. 
• Chris Hedges talks with Dave about journalism, censorship and empire. Inchoate Blobs: The National Press Club Cancels Chris Hedges. 
• Trump’s public snub of Kevin Rudd leaves Albanese in an awkward spot. 
• Could Australia’s trash become  Donald Trump’s treasure? Turning our waste into critical minerals. 
   US, Australia sign rare earths deal as
  Trump promises nuclear-powered attack submarines.

NUCLEAR-RELATED ITEMS

ARTS and CULTURE. The madness of Trump’s vision for America.‘ You and the Atom Bomb’: how George Orwell’s 1945 essay predicted the Cold War and nuclear proliferation.

ATROCITIES. Vaunted Trump Ceasefire? – Israel has a genocidal Palestinian ethnic cleansing to complete. Israeli soldiers reveal thousands of tons of aid ‘buried, burned’ in Gaza as famine took over strip. They Said The Massacres Would Stop When The Hostages Were Released- They Haven’t Stopped.  Fascist Israeli minister Smotrich calls Gaza genocide a “real estate bonanza”.

ECONOMICS.

•  ED MILIBAND’S NUCLEAR NIGHTMARES.
• Deloitte to pay $34mn over audit work on US nuclear fiasco- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/10/20/3-b1-deloitte-to-pay-34mn-over-audit-work-on-us-nuclear-fiasco/
• Inside Oklo: the $20bn nuclear start-up without any revenue – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/10/25/2-b1-inside-oklo-the-20bn-nuclear-start-up-without-any-revenue/
• Livret A: Will part of French savings soon be used to finance nuclear power? – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/10/21/1-b1-livret-a-will-part-of-french-savings-soon-be-used-to-finance-nuclear-power/
• Interest growing in nuclear-powered shipping, BUT – high costs and the nuclear WASTE problem.

EMPLOYMENT. Trump Furloughs Top Nuclear Weapons Staff (What Could Go Wrong?) Fears raised that specialist Vulcan MoD work could shift to Sellafield

ENERGY. After Spain’s blackout, critics blamed renewable energy- It’s part of a bigger attack. Reward scheme for using less power at peak times could help lower US bills. Bristol Airport generates record amount of renewable energy.

ENVIRONMENT. Israel’s Untold Environmental Genocide.

ETHICS and RELIGION. They Tell Us To Fear Muslims While The US Empire Terrorizes The World.  Criminalising an idea: the dangerous fiction of “ANTIFA, the organisation”. It is now antisemitic to object to Israeli football hooligans causing violence in your city.

LEGAL. International Court of Justice Finds Israelis Broke Law by Starving Palestinians of Gaza.

MEDIA. To Media, Gaza Ceasefire Holds Despite Repeated Israeli Strikes. Pentagon Creates New Legion of PR Toadies. Western Media Use ‘Peace’ Prize to Fuel War Propaganda. The power (and fun) of protest!

OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Tireless advocacy delivers victory. Request for an Immediate Stop to the Transportation of Radioactive Waste to Chalk River.

POLITICS.

• The Trump Administration’s Military Occupation of America.
• Senate should invoke War Powers Act to prevent Trump invasion of Venezuela. Trump says he will inform Congress of plans to strike land-based cartel targets in Venezuela.
• The Palestinian Authority may become a casualty of the Trump plan and the new Western consensus.
• UK Government planning for nuclear power in Scotland in anticipation of a Labour 2026 victory. UK Government look at bypassing SNP amid block on ‘billion pound’ nuclear investment. A Genuinely Just Transition: Kill Off Sizewell C – Shaft Reform UK. Parliamentary Committee calls for clear direction on Oldbury and Wylfa, and a “one-stop shop” to finally overcome excessive cost and delays in deployment of nuclear energy.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. Trump-Zelensky meeting was ‘bad’ – Axios.

PLUTONIUM. US offers nuclear energy companies access to weapons-grade plutonium -ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/10/25/2-b-1-us-offers-nuclear-energy-companies-access-to-weapons-grade-plutonium/

SAFETY. Local ‘ceasefire’ area declared at Ukrainian nuclear plant for damage repairs.Incidents. Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws.NRC: Individual fell into ‘reactor cavity’ at Palisades Nuclear Plant

SECRETS and LIES. Gaza ceasefire is an illusion – starvation and killings still continuing. Why there can be no peace for Palestinians. The Great Narco Pretext: Trump Readies for Regime Change in Venezuela. The Rise of the Thielverse and the Construction of the Surveillance State (w/ Whitney Webb) – The Chris Hedges Report.

SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. Mainers will not benefit from coastal rocket launch sites .

SPINBUSTER. NUCLEAR MISINFORMATION.

TECHNOLOGY. Amazon spills plan to nuke Washington…with X-Energy mini-reactors.

WASTES. Russia to Raise Cold War Nuclear Submarines From Arctic—What’s Hiding on the Seabed? Radioactivity and nuclear waste under scrutiny in Peskotomuhkati homeland .

The Bloc Québécois is calling for an immediate halt to the transfer of radioactive waste to Chalk River, on the shores of the drinking water source for millions of Quebecers – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/10/21/1-b1-the-bloc-quebecois-is-calling-for-an-immediate-halt-to-the-transfer-of-radioactive-waste-to-chalk-river-on-the-shores-of-the-drinking-water-source-for-millions-of-quebecers/

True cost of UK’s nuclear waste disposal facility £15bn higher than recent Treasury figures

WAR and CONFLICT.Gaza Officials Say Israel Has Violated Ceasefire 80 Times in First 10 Days.  Israel Launches Wave of Heavy Airstrikes Across Gaza, Killing at Least 45. Trump furious War Chief Hegseth didn’t kill all on Venezuelan boat No. 6 he sent to Davy Jones Locker. A US Strike in Caribbean Leaves Survivors, Reports Say. Slouching Towards Peace. Ukraine Says It Struck a Chemical Plant Inside Russia With British-Provided Storm Shadow Missiles.  EU and Ukraine to offer Trump ‘peace plan’ with no territorial concessions – Bloomberg.

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. Trump: “Thank you so much, Bibi, Excellent work.” Pay attention to the nuclear threat on our doorsteps. Trump rejects Zelensky on Tomahawks, but Washington’s war lobby refuses to “lose”.

October 26, 2025 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter