The non-corporate nuclear news this week
Some bits of good news –Ocean treaty “a landmark victory” for the high seas.
Australia is getting a new national park. Montana Program Makes Youth Offenders Talk with Their Victims and Recidivism Plummets.
TOP STORIES
Trump’s foreign policy: “I don’t need international law because I’m not looking to hurt people”
Caitlin Johnstone: You Know They’re Lying About Iran.
The New German Warfare State.
Who is to blame for blocking a new ‘golden era’ for nuclear power?
Democratic Leaders Silent on the Impeachment of Donald Trump.
This Nuclear Renaissance Has a Waste Management Problem. Nuclear power’s hidden $1 trillion problem – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKIaRg3SdTw
The Coalition of the Willing has achieved nothing.
Climate. Results are in for one of the clearest measures of global heating in 2025– It should be raising alarm bells.
Noel’s notes. The new world of journalism. Raw, Rude, and Angry – in the new world of journalism.
AUSTRALIA. The War On Free Speech In Australia Is Getting Cartoonishly Absurd. Aftermath of the Bondi massacre. Political Futures: Stronger Progressive United Front to Broaden the Hate Speech Legislation.
The biggest Propaganda Campaign in Australian History? The West Report .
Australia’s Response to US Intervention in Venezuela.
Clearas a bell. Australia’s Geopolitical Tightrope.
NUCLEAR RELATED ITEMS.
| ART and CULTURE. Dazed and confused in North America. |
ATROCITIES.
100 days into ceasefire Gaza still deliberately deprived of water as aid groups forced to scavenge under illegal blockade . Here’s who really weaponizes children in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
ECONOMICS.
- How New Venezuela President Will Save Us from Trump’s Crazy. Oil Companies Are Key Partners in Trump’s Imperial Plans for Latin America.
- Ontario Power Generation seeks rate increase for electricity from nuclear plants- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2026/01/16/1-b-1-ontario-power-generation-seeks-rate-increase-for-electricity-from-nuclear-plants/ Ontario utility wants to double the asking price of nuclear, while US wants reactors on the moon.
- Donald Trump calls for emergency energy auction to make tech giants pay for AI power.
- TerraPower and Meta partner on Natrium nuclear plants.
| EMPLOYMENT. Fears raised that specialist Vulcan MoD work could shift to Sellafield |
| ENERGY. Wind is certainly not the only renewable power source in Scotland. |
| ETHICS and RELIGION. The Flotillas to Gaza Are the World’s Conscience. |
| EVENTS. 31 January. London Challenging the War Machine – https://secure.declassifieduk.org/page/180663/event/1 |
| INDIGENOUS. Navajo lands at risk |
| LEGAL. Militant Zionist Group Ceasing Operations In New York FollowingSettlement with Attorney General. Challenge to Latest Sellafield Discharges to the Rivers Calder, Ehen and the Irish Sea. |
| MEDIA. Billionaire’s Mouthpiece Searches for Reasons to Avoid Taxing Billionaires.Whitewashing U.S. barbarism by smearing Russia and China. Genocide isn’t a mistake- Which is why the media can’t tell you the truth about Gaza. “Another Monroe Doctrine”: Journalists Warn U.S. Strikes on Venezuela Signal a New Era of Intervention. The plastisphere: a world choked by plastic. |
POLITICS.
- Trump names son-in-law, Rubio, Blair to Gaza ‘Board of Peace’. Founders of Deadly Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), ‘Shaping’ New US-Backed Administration for Gaza: Report.
- Reza Pahlavi vows to recognise Israel, end nuclear programme if he led Iran.
- Spectral Threats: China, Russia and Trump’s Greenland Rationale.
- Senate Republicans edging toward War Powers Resolution to curb Trump’s crazed Venezuelan war. Senate rejects Trump’s military threats against Venezuela with war powers vote.
- Sanctions, Strategy and Spin: Venezuela Lobbying Soars Under Trump.
- ‘Uninvestable’:Oil execs rebuff Trump’s demands for $100bn investment in Venezuela.
- Zelensky makes another move to avoid election.
- Do the Democrats Have the Guts to Outflank Trump on Defense Industry Looting?
- Spending big on nuclear.
- Sizewell C injects nearly £1bn of tax-payers’ money into East of England as construction hits two-year milestone.
- ‘Wall of money’ to invest in Scottish nuclear power if Labour win election.
POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. President Trump Urges Iran Protests To Continue, Says ‘Help Is on Its Way’.
Is the U.S. preparing to install another Shah to run Iran as a U.S. puppet?
You Can’t Cheer For Regime Change In Iran Without Also Cheering For The US Empire.
Netanyahu Is Visiting Trump For The FIFTH Time This Year, And Other Notes.
“Condemning US imperialism for its illegal invasion and violation of sovereignty.”- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2026/01/13/2-b1-condemning-us-imperialism-for-its-illegal-invasion-and-violation-of-sovereignty/
Russia says it awaits US response on ‘important’ issue of expiring nuclear treaty.
Somaliland: Longtime Zionist Colonisation Target.
It’s time to stop talking about the “denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula” and instead focus on halting U.S. militarism in the region.
| SAFETY. Chubu Electric to Face On-Site Probe over N-Plant Data Fraud. Bill Gates-backed‘Cowboy Chernobyl’ nuclear reactor races toward approval in Wyoming. |
| SECRETS and LIES .Chubu Electric’s data fraud ‘undermines’ Japan’s nuclear energy policy .Revealed: The CIA-Backed Think Tanks Fueling The Iran Protests. From Musk to TikTok: How AI Fakes Fueled a Disinformation Frenzy Around Maduro. Candid Imperialism: Trump, Racketeering and Venezuelan Oil. HOW ONTARIO KEEPS THE TRUE COST OF NUCLEAR POWER OFF YOUR HYDRO BILL. The Nobel Peace Prize, Re-Gifted (Peace Through Strength™ Edition). |
WAR and CONFLICT.
- US Surging Military Assets To the Middle East To Prepare for War With Iran After Trump Postpones Attack
- On the Eve of Destruction: Has His Majesty’s Madness for War Led His Loyal Supporters Astray?
- Cuba Vows to Defend Itself Against Trump to ‘The Last Drop of blood.
- Venezuela today.- Greenland tomorrow?
- Biden knew Ukraine would lose proxy war with Russia….provoked it anyway.
WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES.
- British Ministry of Defense developing ballistic missile for Ukraine to make “deep strikes into Russia”.
- Report: Military Tells Trump It Needs More Time to Prepare for War With Iran.
- ‘Vomiting blood’: Witness claims US used powerful mystery weapon during Maduro raid.
- New owners of Canadian Nuclear Laboratories have extensive nuclear weapons connections.
- Lost Opportunities toHalt Rising Military Spending.
- Faslane nuclear base tugboats may be built in China.
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