Nuclear news – NOT from the Military-Industrial-Nuclear-Media complex.

I’m trying something a bit different this week – picking out a significant website. Also picking out a significant theme for the week –

WEBSITE – of the week – THE ONENESS of HUMANITY

THEME – of the week – Nuclear reactors shutting down because of climate change – extreme heat, but governments and the nuclear lobby enthuse over new nuclear reactors!

Some bits of good news –

Black Women Farmers Are Reclaiming the Land. Colombia passed a bill to outlaw Female Genital Mutilation. The global green economy has passed $10 trillion in value. How trade bans and local conservation helped save a dazzling blue gecko

TOP STORIESNuclear reactors taken offline in France, as extreme heat pushes river temperatures into danger zone.
In Historic First, Congress Passes Concurrent War Powers Resolution To End Iran War.
Senior U.S. Diplomats, Journalists, Academics and Secretaries of Defense Say: the U.S. Provoked Russia in Ukraine.

Ukrainian-Polish diplomatic crisis over Nazi collaboration exposes NATO war with Russia.
Rising to the challenge – building a global majority against war and nuclear weapons.
Nuclear powered shipping – a golden future or unrealistic claims?

Climate. ‘Extreme’ weather having ‘significant impact’ on Kent’s nuclear power stations.

Covering the Impact of Climate Change—Without Mentioning Climate Change.Noel’s notes. Memory politics – a tragic military strategy in Ukraine.

AUSTRALIA.

Underestimating the potential impacts of attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
The tragedy of AUKUS.
AUKUS has a big waste issue – and not only money.
Montebello nuclear test 70 years on: Australia still in the dark over UK mega-bomb.
Australia’s coal and gas exports violate our human rights, group says in new UN case.
AUKUS and democracy: why both matter.

NUCLEAR-RELATED ITEMS

ATROCITIES. UN report finds Israel deliberately targets Palestinian children. Israel takes perverse pleasure in torturing, raping, and murdering Palestinian hostages.

CLIMATE.Climate change matters. High French river temperatures expected to limit nuclear power output next week. France tries to cope with second premature heatwave in less than a month. Bonn climate talks: Key outcomes from the June 2026 UN climate conference

ECONOMICS Bechtel opens Polish office to oversee country’s first nuclear plant, to cost $37 Billion. Sweden has agreed first financing package for new nuclear reactors, PM says US federal loan to jumpstart AP1000 reactor supply chain, with initial $17.5 billion
. Governments would have to foot the bill for nuclear shipping.
Why X-Energy Stock Collapsed 19.2% This Week.

EMPLOYMENT. The hidden reality behind Britain’s homegrown nuclear age – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2026/06/26/2-b1-the-hidden-reality-behind-britains-homegrown-nuclear-age/

ENERGY. Even If the Strait of Hormuz is Open, it Ain’t Open.

ETHICS and RELIGION. Root Cause of Criminal War Against Iran: Islamic Law Prohibits Usury.

EVENTS. 1st July – Webinar Waste of Space: The Environmental Harm of Military and Civil Space Activity

HISTORY. ‘Poles, Russians, and Jews must be exterminated’: The bloody history of Zelensky’s heroes.

MEDIA. Edge of Armageddon: why does one of the world’s top thinkers believe we’re nearing nuclear apocalypse?

OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . U.S. Military Bases Around the World Are Facing Growing Protest From an Emboldened Antiwar Movement.

POLITICS .

Canada – Federal Initiative to Fast-Track Approvals for Deep Geological Repository a Betrayal of Public Trust.
Canada Initiates Process to List Major [Nuclear] Projects under the Building Canada Act.
The NDAA Proposed Merger of the U.S. and Israeli Military is Strategically Unwise and Inherently Unconstitutional.
Congress Is Preparing to Surrender American Sovereignty on the Eve of America’s 250th Anniversary.
Reality bites – by Walt Zlotow. Should the State of Israel be defascistized?
Israel’s Suicidal Rupture with the U.S.
The Persistence of Israel First. Republican, Democratic criticism of Trump’s Iran peace initiative promotes renewed war not peace.
This Is Why Trump Was Necessary.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.

Iran deal grants access to nuclear inspectors, IAEA chief says.
The Collapse of the Sacred Alliance: How Israel Is Losing America.
Vance: Israeli Officials Need To Realize Trump Is the Only Head of State Still ‘Sympathetic’ to Israel.
Taking a sledgehammer to the nuclear nonproliferation regime.
The end of the Polish-Ukrainian love story.

RADIATION. Radioactive cesium from 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster spread over wide area: study.

SAFETY. Substation damage delaying operation of repaired Zaporizhzhia power line, says IAEA.

SECRETS and LIES. Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say.

SPINBUSTER. Words Matter: What does “De-Confliction” Even Mean?

TECHNOLOGY. Canada just lowered a 953-tonne slab of steel and concrete into a 35-meter shaft in Ontario and ended a decade of talk, starting the Western world’s first grid-scale small nuclear reactor – [Excerpt]

URANIUM. The IAEA Faces a New Nuclear Puzzle Inside Iran.

WASTES. CORWM visits Sizewell A and Sizewell B, –92% of pond low level waste is diverted to landfill. Finland buried nuclear waste in copper canisters 430 meters down, but the metal may not survive as long as the promise.
Spent Nuclear Fuel Management – The Inventory .Status IAEA produces global mapping tool of used nuclear fuel.
Decommissioning. Nuclear Autopsy for Indian Point Decommissioning?

WAR and CONFLICT. UN Experts Condemn US Attack on Iran Nuclear Facilities. Washington ‘ends’ Israeli freedom of action inside Lebanon: Report. If Russia retaliated…

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. UK Tests Long-Range Missile for Ukraine. Congress Quietly Moves to Merge U.S. and Israeli Militaries.