Non corporate-nuclear-military-politics-media-complex news this week
Some bits of good news –
Nations hatched a plan to abandon fossil fuels
Rewilding in Scotland‘s Highlands
Crop yields soar thanks to solar panels.
The Nationwide Movement Turning Guns into Garden Tools.
TOP STORIES.
The Nuclear Cult.
Confronting The Media’s Gaza Group-Think.
Security Council Shamefully Grants Colonial Domination Over Palestine to the US.
Nuclear’s Costly Comeback Meets Harsh Market Reality.
What? Peace in Our Time in Ukraine? Zelensky to Trump on US peace plan: ‘No peace with Russia till we win back all lost territory’– ALSO AT…… https://nuclear-news.net/2025/11/25/3-a-zelensky-to-trump-on-us-peace-plan-no-peace-with-russia-till-we-win-back-all-lost-territory/
From the archives. Millions of fish killed this winter at Bruce Power nuclear plant
Climate. Beyond the negative headlines, some truly good things came out of Cop30. How the United Nations has under-predicted the rate of global temperature rise.
‘It’s like arguing with robots’: negotiators on the state of Cop30 talks. COPout 30 Backpedals on Climate Action. Fossil Fuels at COP30: Sacred, Profane and Unmentioned.
AUSTRALIA Water is under pressure in the Great Artesian Basin – ALSO AT https://antinuclear.net/2025/11/23/water-is-under-pressure-in-the-great-artesian-basin/
Nuke Submarine ‘community consultation’ PORT ADELAIDE COMMUNITY OPPOSING AUKUS (PACOA)SUBMISSION TO ANI CONSULTATION.
Michael West Media scoops the prize pool in the 2025 Walkey Awards-(SATIRE)
NUCLEAR TOPICS
ART and CULTURE. Palestinians Will Not Let the Genocide Kill Their Hopes: The Forty-Seventh Newsletter (2025).
| ATROCITIES. UN Condemns ‘Brazen’ Israeli Killing of Surrendering Palestinians in West Bank –https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZjnVw_fyLU Trump Gaza Plan Condemned as ‘Concentration Camps Within a Mass Concentration Camp’. Over 92 Percent of Homes in Gaza Are Rubble– How Do We Even Start Rebuilding? Thanks to US, in Gaza it’sdeath by a thousand planes. When medics become targets: Ukrainian strikes on Russian rescue workers and the silence of western media. |
| ECONOMICS. Hinkley Point C nuclear power station will add £1bn a year to energy bills -ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/11/29/3-a-hinkley-point-c-nuclear-power-station-will-add-1bn-a-year-to-energy-bills/ UK ‘most expensive’ in the world for nuclear projects due to complex regulation, taskforce finds. UK Energy bills to rise to pay for nuclear plant and discount scheme. Trump’s Westinghouse nuclear deal comes with unresolved questions. |
| EDUCATION. Torness Power Station welcomes female school pupils. |
| EMPLOYMENT. Fears raised that specialist Vulcan MoD work could shift to Sellafield |
| ENERGY. We must embrace reality with cheap green energy – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/11/28/2-b1-we-must-embrace-reality-with-cheap-green-energy/ The50-Year Wind Farm That Ended a Nuclear Myth. |
ENVIRONMENT. Attacking nature protections with fudged figures is not the solution to slow growth: rivers charity responds to Hinkley Point C report.
UK’s new nuclear body urges scrapping nature protections for new projects.
Does ‘fish disco’ show we’re dancing to the wrong tune on regulations? – ALSO EXTRACT AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/11/27/1-b1-does-fish-disco-show-were-dancing-to-the-wrong-tune-on-regulations/
Officials make alarming discovery outside of shutdown nuclear facility: ‘Significant’.
New Mexico Environment Department Requires Los Alamos National Laboratory to Stop All Injection Operations into Regional Drinking Water Aquifer.
HEALTH. Minnesota’s aging nukes pose national threat. |
| LEGAL. Soldiers Must Disobey Unlawful Orders Under Trump — It’s Their Legal Duty. Leavitt Says “All” MilitaryOrders by Trump Must Be “Presumed to Be Legal”. |
| MEDIA. The Seven Richest Billionaires Are All Media Barons. Right-wing media praise Trump’s made-up excuses for war against Venezuela. International Uranium Film Festival 2025. The Unseen Battle: Why Access to Alternative Media is a Modern Necessity |
| OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Oldbury nuclear reactor plans spark safety concerns at Lydney meeting. |
| PERSONAL STORIES. He once said he was a genius: Now he wants to immortalise himself. How Does It Feel When Your City Is Destroyed? Marco Rubio: From ‘Perfect Little Puppet’ to Most Dangerous Man Alive. |
| POLITICS. The USA: A democracy on life support. UK government adds nuclear energy to sovereign green bond framework. Due to legal considerations UK government is now pausing its planned nuclear regulatory reforms. Sir Keir Starmer to create commission with power to overrule environmental regulators through environmental red tape- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/11/27/1-a-sir-keir-starmer-to-create- Labour’s nuclear tax to blame for rising energy bills, says Octopus says. Japan approves restart of world’s biggest nuclear power plant – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/11/24/3-b1-japan-approves-restart-of-worlds-biggest-nuclear-power-plant/ Ontario’s Nuclear Announcement Locks Us Into a High-cost, High-risk Energy Path, ‘Elbows up’ means ‘lots of things,’ Canada’s energy minister says after pressed on U.S.-based nuclear contract. |
| POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. Trump’s Ukraine peace plan D.O.A with neocon Rubio as Secretary of State, National Security Advisor. Rubio Neo-Conned Trump’s Ukraine Peace Plan. Fighting for Peace and Fighting for War in Ukraine. “Ukraine Agrees on ‘Essence’ of Peace Deal; Trump Meeting Expected Soon”. The EU counter-proposal to Trump’s peace plan keeps the door ajar for Ukraine to join NATO. ZELENSKY: CAUGHT BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE. Press-hating president kisses up to press-murdering crown prince. From Libya to Palestine: The UN’s Betrayal Of Arabs and Muslims. European Leaders Condemn Trump’s Military Escalation Against Venezuela. China warns of severe consequences if Japan fails to retract its threats of military intervention over Taiwan. Stepping back from the brink-How the UK could help lead the world away from the nuclear precipice. Hiroshima Declaration and Declaration on the Rights of Nuclear Victims 2025/ China releases arms control white paper in new era; ‘document injects positive energy, safeguards developing nations’ rights. |
| PUBLIC OPINION. Poll Shows 70 Percent in US Disapprove of Striking Venezuela as Trump Mulls War. |
| RADIATION. Prawns, sneakers and spices: What we know about Indonesia’s radioactive exports. |
| SAFETY. Reservations over a dash for nuclear– UK’s “Nuclear Regulatory Taskforce”- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/11/29/2-b1-reservations-over-a-dash-for-nuclear-uks-nuclear-regulatory-taskforce/ Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant needs cooperation agreement in event of Ukraine peace, says IAEA. Incidents. Risks of Restarting Duane Arnold nuclear plan. Visiting bombed nuclear sites is dangerous, Iran FM says. |
| SECRETS AND LIES Navy’s legal threats in bid to try and and keep nuclear pollution secret. British military trained in Israel amid Gaza genocide. Were The Brits Behind Bloomberg’s Russian-US Leaks? Zelensky covering up ‘dire’ frontline situation – Moscow. Iranian nuclear scientists sell products with Croydon-made parts -ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/11/28/2-b1-iranian-nuclear-scientists-sell-products-with-croydon-made-parts/ |
| TECHNOLOGY. Elon’s last grift. DARPA Going Hard on Insect-Sized Spy Robots. |
| WAR and CONFLICT.Video shows Israeli forces killing two Palestinian men after apparent surrender https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZjnVw_fyLU Israel is violating ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon, and Trump is allowing it. The“Arsenal of Freedom” is a Dangerous Fantasy for Armchair Warriors. US military orders that should be disobeyed.From WMDs to “Narco-States”: How the US Sells Wars the Intelligence Doesn’t Support. |
| WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. Britain will have to obey US orders on nuclear jets, CND conference hears. The White House Ignored Legal Warnings—Now Latin America Faces Its Largest Military Buildup Since 1962. Israel accelerates production of Iron Dome with US aid money. |
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