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Australian news, and some related international items

Week to 23 December – news counteracting the nuclear-military-industrial-media complex

Some bits of good news 

– Incredible progress in reducing infant mortality in South Asia – UNICEF, 

India extended health coverage to millions of elderly citizens, The green economy defied sceptics

TOP STORIES

 Syria Today, Iran Tomorrow, and Inevitably China. 

Finding the Unmentionable: Amnesty International, Israel and Genocide.          Israel’s War on Gaza Is a War on Children. 

AI goes nuclear. 

SpaceX Wants to Increase Launches at Boca Chica Without a Full Environmental Review. 

Olkiluoto 3 has been a financial catastrophe for Areva, Siemens. 

Dutton said a reactor’s waste would fill a Coke can: Try 27,000 of them.

Climate. World’s largest iceberg on the move again after months spinning on the spot.

Noel’s notes. ‘Tis the season to be fake about nuclear power, AI, plastic leaves, and a lot of other things.

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AUSTRALIA. The LNP’s nuclear policy is working just fine.    Don’t want nuclear power’: Wild scenes as protestors storm Perth’s CBD during inquiry into nuclear energy. 

The Coalition is playing voters for mugs once again with its nuclear costings.      Coalition’s nuclear plan will hit Earth with 1.7bn extra tonnes of CO2 before 2050.         The glaring gaps and unanswered questions in the Coalition’s nuclear plan and costings. More Australian nuclear news headlines at https://antinuclear.net/2024/12/17/australian-nuclear-news-headlines-17-23-december/

NUCLEAR ITEMS

ART and CULTURE. Power, control and symbolic masculinity: How Freud might diagnose the pro nuclear lobby
ATROCITIES. Israel’s Crime of Extermination, Acts of Genocide in Gaza.
CLIMATE. Major report joins dots between world’s nature challenges.
ECONOMICS.Privatizing Syria: US Plans to Sell Off A Nation’s Wealth After Assad.U.S. Corporate Land Grab in Ukraine Underlies War With Russia.France’s most powerful nuclear reactor joins grid after €13bn holdup. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32XKveP01x4Foreign company withdraws from plans for Swedish nuclear power. 
ENVIRONMENT. Risky Revival: How Michigan’s Palisades nuclear plant could impact agriculture . Will the legacy of nuclear power ever disappear from our coasts?.
LEGAL. Nuclear company Orano seeks arbitration over Niger mining licence.
POLITICS. Martial Law Fiasco Casts Doubt Over Korea’s Nuclear Power Push. Starmer backs minister accused of embezzling billions in Bangladesh.
POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. Israel, not the ‘liberators’ of Damascus, will decide Syria’s fate. Blinken Confirms the US Is in Direct Contact With al-Qaeda-Linked HTS. Blinded to Syria. How Washington and Ankara Changed the Regime in Damascus.

SAFETY.

SECRETS and LIES. “I don’t care if its tainted money”: Council leader’s telling admission in Nuclear Waste Services cash grab debate.
SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. US Space Force conducts ‘simulated on-orbit combat’ training.
TECHNOLOGY. Nuclear shipping will face significant challenges.

Decommissioning. ‘Long journey ahead’ for nuclear plant clean-up. Final German nuclear power plant enters dismantling phase.

WAR AND CONFLICT On Ukraine war, will Trump channel JFK or LBJ? Pentagon admits massive surge of US troops in Syria. Overnight Israeli Strike In Syria So Large It Caused Earthquake. Trump And Israel Can’t Wait To Start Bombing Iran.
WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. With no real enemies, US poised to spend $1.8 trillion for national security in 2025. Despite 100% Pentagon Audit Failure Rate, House Passes $883.7 Billion NDAA. Israel’s not-so-secret nuclear weapons.

December 23, 2024 Posted by | Christina reviews | Leave a comment

Counteracting the nuclear-corporate- military-media complex -week to 16 December

Some bits of good news – 

Women Wage Peace and Women of the Sun, have received a joint Nobel Peace Prize nomination this year.  Growing Corn in the Desert,No Irrigation Required.The Benefits of Gardening Just Keep Sprouting.


TOP STORIES . Trump Transition Team Considering Strikes on Iran.      Inside Israel’s opportunistic invasion of Syria.       Chilling Warnings for Syria: When Foreign Interventions Go Bad.           From ‘Terrorist’ to ‘Freedom Fighter’: How the West Rebranded Al-Qaeda’s Jolani as Syria’s ‘Woke’ New Leader.

Climate. Climate crisis deepens with 2024 ‘certain’ to be hottest year on record. Antarctica is in crisis and we are scrambling to understand its future.

Noel’s notes. Australia’s coming Dutton-deluge of nuclear propaganda. The legal decision on the Murdoch media – what does it mean for us?

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AUSTRALIA. Solar switch off: Dutton’s nuclear plan amounts to declaration of war against household energy systems. Biggest losers from Coalition’s nuclear plan will be Australia’s 4 million solar households, industry says. The Coalition’s master plan: Bring large scale wind, solar and battery storage installations to a halt. 

Dutton to reveal just how much he’s gambling on nuclear power. Peter Dutton’s nuclear plan: Mad, bad, and extremely dangerous. 

How anger at Australia’s rollout of renewables is being hijacked by a new pro-nuclear network .      Inquiry into nuclear power generation in Australia: Exposing Ted O’Brien’s dishonesty. Advance’s plan to destroy the Greens. Nuclear Neverland: The Lost Boys of Costings | The West Report -masse? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSeaybp9oAA   

 Peter Dutton in his ignorance is pushing nuclear reactors in Australia – including small nuclear reactors.  

Netanyahu and Australia. More Australian nuclear news at https://antinuclear.net/2024/12/13/australian-nuclear-news-10-16-december

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NUCLEAR ITEMS

ATROCITIES. Finding the Unmentionable: Amnesty International, Israel and Genocide.
CLIMATE. France’s New Nuclear Power Plant Is a Ticking Bomb.
ECONOMICS. Ed Miliband to bring more misery for Brits and send bills skyrocketing. Nuclear Stocks Were Super Hot Just A Month Ago: What’s Changed? France deal raises concerns over EDF dominance – Collective intelligence or failure?
EDUCATION. Congress Revives Cold War Tactics With New Anti-Communism School Curriculum
ENERGY. Murder, mayhem, and minerals: The price of the renewable energy revolution.
A nuclear-free energy future for Hydro-Québec, says Michael Sabia.

ENVIRONMENT.

MEDIA. US mainstream media missed biggest news story of 2024 . Rupert Murdoch loses his legal battle, leaving future of media empire in the balance. Why Murdoch’s succession case could be major blow to his rightwing legacy. Book: The Scientists Who Alerted Us To The Dangers of Radiation.
OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . New generation must take up fight against nuclear weapons, Nobel laureate group says.

POLITICS.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.

SAFETY. Rocket fuel eating away at US, China nuclear weapons. Drone strikes UN vehicle on way to inspect Ukrainian nuclear plant.
SECRETS and LIES. Some Thoughts On The Mystery Drones.Anyone Can Buy Data Tracking US Soldiers and Spies to Nuclear Vaults and Brothels in Germany.
SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. Remember the dark skies?
SPINBUSTER. Atomic revival: A new age for nuclear?
URANIUM. How a uranium mine became a pawn in the row between Niger and France.

WAR and CONFLICT.

December 17, 2024 Posted by | Christina reviews | Leave a comment

TODAY. Australia’s coming Dutton-deluge of nuclear propaganda

 Australian Independent Media, 14 Dec 24,https://theaimn.com/australias-coming-deluge-of-nuclear-propaganda/

There’s something dramatically splendid about King Louis XV of France’s famous statement in 1757 – “After me, the deluge”, interpreted to mean that he knew his reign would leave France in a terrible mess, but meanwhile, let’s enjoy the wealth and fun.

Well, I’m not sure that the predicted election win in Australia for the Liberal-National Coalition will result in wealth and fun, but I think that its aftermath will be a mess.

But, in the meantime, as Peter Dutton has now delivered the Coalition’s statement on the costs of its nuclear power plan, Australia can expect a deluge of another kind – the pro-nuclear propaganda. Australia has had a preview of how this will work, in 2023, with the highly successful campaign to defeat the referendum on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.

One must give due credit to an American influence – the Atlas Network – for perfecting the spin system. To very briefly outline the work of the Atlas Network: it is a global infrastructure of 500+ ‘Think-Tanks’ including the Centre for Independent Studies, the Institute of Public Affairs and LibertyWorks. Posing as impartial advisers, these “Think Tanks” provide reports and articles designed to direct governments and educational and other social organisations towards policies that improve the profits of big corporations, and remove barriers to their profits. The barriers would be regulations, especially those involved with protecting the environment, and the rights of Indigenous people.

Apart from some funding, and training support, the real focus of the Atlas Network is on LANGUAGE – teaching the stink tanks how to use words to manipulate thinking. George Orwell alerted the world to the way in which fascism uses language, and wrote of “Newspeak”. Now the Atlas Network perfects the method – repetitively using vague and deceptive words to convey a lying message that is aimed at molding public opinion.

Sometimes these words are straight out lies: sometimes just vague words in which the meaning is distorted. The word “elite” is a good example – now used to discredit scientists and other experts so that the public comes to distrust them, and to rubbish their opinions, and their reports, particularly about regulations to protect the environment and Indigenous rights.

FEAR is indeed the currency of the Atlas Network. Fear and distrust of regulations, of officers and organisations involved in human rights and environmental protection. So these stink tanks work to weaken laws, and discredit agencies of human support – such as the United Nations.

Side by side with those messages of fear, come the lying messages of reassurance – for example the story that global heating is not happening, or, if it is, it has nothing to do with human activities such as greenhouse gas emissions. So we don’t need to worry or to do anything to stop these emissions. So we are reassured that nuclear power is “clean “green” “safe” “cheap” “nothing to do with weapons”.

Jeremy Walker explained the process by which the Atlas Network architecture of influence operated in the lead-up to the Voice referendum in 2023.

But we mustn’t let the Americans take all the glory for destroying the Indigenous Voice to Parliament. We have our own Australian spin network – called “Advance”, (sometimes “Advance Australia”). Advance has been around for some years. Financially and ideologically backed by a group of prominent business leaders, Advance’s membership and funding is obscure. Like Atlas, it teaches the think tanks, and some universities, how to word misinformation campaigns about climate change, indigenous rights, and nuclear power. It also spreads these messages via the conventional, and the social media, especially Facebook. Advance is at present working strenuously to discredit and destroy The Greens, the only political party genuinely opposing the nuclear industry.

So – how to deal with the deluge?

Australia has some fine journalists in the mainstream and the alternative media. They are already pointing out the flaws in the Coalition’s argument for nuclear power. Cost seems to be the main one: it is noted that Dutton’s costing is refuted by the CSIRO and the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis. Other big factors are delay, the increased greenhouse emissions, the opposition of some rural communities.

So Australia’s reputable commentators are doing a good job, in shining light on what is now the Coalition’s big election policy – nuclear power for Australia.

The anti-nuclear movement has a history of respectfully answering peo-nuclear proponents, sometimes in the same detailed jargonistic language that nuclear physicists and engineers prefer to use. At the political and academic level, they have done so well, providing effective information and detail. However, apart from Helen Caldicott, no-one has been game to spit it out forcefully to the great unwashed. The result is that – being ‘dazzled with science’, we ordinary mortals are inclined to just give up, and “leave it to the experts”.

Australia, the only continent with one national government, is blessed with world-leading renewable energy resources, and is already well on the way to genuinely clean energy, especially in rooftop solar. Australia now has the opportunity to lead the world in this. Our nuclear-free movement can promote the consciousness of a positive clean energy future for Australia, by using clear, forceful, jargon-free messages.

My worry is that there will now be a well-funded barrage of simplistic pro-nuclear propaganda -that will reach people everywhere, of all levels, especially in the outer suburbs and the regions – where everybody is watching Facebook, YouTube etc, and where in the ‘mainstream’, Murdoch media dominates anyway.

Will the nuclear-free movement be able to counteract the Atlas/Advance language methods? Atlas/Advance are so very good at it – using brief, repetitive, misleading language.They have the “hooray” words – “justice”, “life”, “freedom” and those “positives” – “clean” “green” etc. They have the “negatives” – “Hitler, “taxes” – and words used negatively “elites” “bureaucrat”, “government official” and “public servant”. And as well, they use vague, really, almost meaningless words – that waffle, weaken, and obscure the argument- “may” “can” “could” “might”, “arguably”.

We don’t know when the federal election will take place. At the moment, Peter Dutton’s nuclear plan is receiving much media scepticism. But it’s very early days. Advance is already swinging into action – starting with the anti-Greens campaign. The deluge will follow in no time.

But – I’m hoping that sensible people across Australia will have learned from the debacle of the Voice referendum. There are some very sound and thoughtful people out in the regions – where Dutton says that nuclear reactors will be placed, and these people are already resisting in a clear and practical way.

December 14, 2024 Posted by | Christina reviews | Leave a comment

Week to 25 November – nuclear and related news

Some bits of good news –‘My Life Changed Completely’: How Kenya Turned Us vs. Them Into Water for All.       

The global energy transition will cost a lot less than we think.    

He’ll try, but Trump can’t stop the clean energy revolution.     

 China’s desertified land area shrinks by 65 million mu since 2012.

TOP STORIES. Trump’s Cabinet Picks Aren’t Looking Good For Peace In Ukraine. On Way Out, Reckless Biden Allows Deep Russia Strikes. 

UK Sees Privatization ‘Opportunities’ in Ukraine War
Beyond one million

 years: The intrinsic radiation hazard of high-level nuclear wastes. 

The 1.5C Climate Goal Is Dead. Why Is COP29 Still Talking About It? 

 Nuclear fusion: neither imminent nor relevant to climate change.

Climate. ‘The sixth great extinction is happening‘, conservation expert warns – ‘Window of time to save climate is closing’.  Climate crisis to blame for dozens of ‘impossible’ heatwaves, studies reveal.           ,COP29: Baku breakthrough disappoints, but should still trigger a fresh wave of climate finance.

Noel’s notes. Danger of a nuclear catastrophe as Ukraine sends missiles to Kursk area in Russia

AUSTRALIA. Albanese government gives firm ‘no’ to joining UK-US agreement to advance nuclear technology, Signing US/UK nuclear deal would shred Australia’s credibility: Turnbull. Trump, AUKUS and Australia’s Dim Servitors. Nuclear is not really back.  More Australian nuclear news at https://antinuclear.net/2024/11/20/australian-nuclear-news-headlines-18-25-november/

NUCLEAR ITEMS

CLIMATE. Nuclear reactor cooling systems threatened by global heating.
CIVIL LIBERTIES. Germany and US Are in a Race to the Bottom on Suppressing Pro-Palestine Speech. USA. House Passes Chilling ‘Nonprofit Killer’ Bill With 15 Democrats Voting ‘Yes’.
ECONOMICS.  Nuclear Industry Association members seek to expand into weapons sector. Great British Nuclear to put £1.8bn worth of mini-nuke contracts up for grabs.
Shares in nuclear reactor company OKLO bite the dust.  The enriched uranium market is all at sea, with USA the largest importer of Russian material  ALSO AT …https://wordpress.com/post/nuclear-news.net/292122
EMPLOYMENT. East Suffolk Council offering grants to convert homes to accommodate nuclear workers..
ENERGY. Big batteries and EVs to the rescue again as faults with new nuclear plant cause chaos on Nordic grids.Solar power: Germany’s national, federal highways could host 54 GW of PV.
ENVIRONMENT. Thornbury MP fights for Hinkley Point environmental protections. Somerset church would ‘become’ island if ‘ham-fisted’ Hinkley saltmarsh plans go-ahead.
HEALTH.
Gender and Ionizing Radiation: Towards a New Research Agenda Addressing Disproportionate Harm ALSO AThttps://nuclear-news.net/2024/11/23/1-a-gender-and-ionizing-radiation-towards-a-new-research-agenda-addressing-disproportionate-harm/
‘Starmer – meet us before it’s too late,’ nuclear test veterans say. Britain’s Nuclear Bomb Scandal: Our Story review – how the UK’s atomic testing programme devastated lives.

Radiation: Call to Action! Stop LANL Tritium Venting and Protect the Most Vulnerable. Why iodine pills are not a silver bullet to protect against nuclear radiation.
NFLA submarine champion raises concerns over Clyde Tritium contamination.
LEGAL.International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0hLXFsYW8oPilgrim Worker Claims He Was Poisoned by Radiation.Regulators update guidance on contamination of ground and water on nuclear licensed sites.
MEDIA. NY Times killed investigation of Israeli hooligans, internal email reveals – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7dcM22hPOENew Book. The Scientists Who Alerted Us To The Dangers of Radiation.
POLITICS.
Russia’s Revised Nuclear Doctrine and the NATO-Russia Ukrainian War. Who Is Authorizing Biden’s Nuclear Brinkmanship While The President’s Brain Is Missing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zeoPWJ_s3s Biden’s Missile .

Crisis: Trump’s Election Is Also a Win for Tech’s Right-Wing “Warrior Class”.
Iran warns West: abandon pressure or face more uranium enrichment. What would Iran do: A race to the bomb or a deal with Trump?

Immoral Senate votes down resolutions to end US weapons fueling Israel’s genocide in Gaza. 
 Scandal-ridden company SNC Lavalin, now calling itself AtkinsRéalis, strongly lobbying Ontario government to build its Candu nuclear reactors.
Norfolk MP criticised for ‘anti-nuclear’ stance for Bacton.
POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.
High-Precision, Long-Range NATO Missiles Against Russia: Why Now?
Iran has offered to keep uranium below purity levels for a bomb,
IAEA confirms.European states vow to arrest Israeli PM. 

US one shy of becoming an Ace in blocking genocide ceasefire resolutions in UN. In 14-1 UN Security Council Vote, Lone US Veto Kills Gaza Cease-Fire Resolution. Trump opposes Israel annexation of West Bank, Republican sources say.

Households receive chilling leaflet urging them to prepare for war and grim nuclear attack.
SAFETY.
Power Out at Ukraine Atomic Plants After Russian Missile Strikes.

Congress wants to turn the nuclear regulator into the US industry’s cheerleader—again.

Reading road sees suspected nuclear warhead convoy. Japan / Blow For Nuclear Programme As Regulator Blocks Tsuruga-2 Restart.
SECRETS and LIES. UK Defence secretary to seek ‘missing’ nuclear test records.
SPINBUSTER. Nuclear Propaganda Exposed. Nuclear hype ignores high cost, long timelines.
TECHNOLOGY. Why EDF’s Hinkley C nuclear power plant will probably not be running before 2035.Will New Brunswick choose a “small, modular” nuclear reactor – that’s not small at all (among other problems)? Nuclear ‘Renaissance’ Recalls Past Boondoggles, Legacy of Failures.
WASTES. Decommissioning: Hunterston B decommissioning approved
WAR and CONFLICT. Report: Ukraine Fires British Storm Shadow Missiles Into Russia. Report: Biden Allows Ukraine To Strike Russia With Long-Range US Missiles.Russia Says US Missile Defense Base in Poland Is a Potential Target.

Israeli strikes hit ‘component’ of Iran’s nuclear programme: Netanyahu.
UN report is shows threat of nuclear war is ever present.
WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES.Report: US and European Officials Discussed Giving Ukraine Nuclear Weapons.
Fleet of drones is spotted over major US airbase in Britain where they are building facilities to house nuclear weapons.

November 25, 2024 Posted by | Christina reviews | Leave a comment

Nuclear and related news – week to 19 November

Some bits of good news – No Matter Who Wins, the Real Work of Sustainability Will Continue.  ‘Lost’ species thriving again in Scottish waters.  Indian Soldiers Swap Candy with Chinese After Diplomacy Deescalates Troops at Diwali
TOP STORIES

. Trump’s Appointments Reflect a More Openly Hawkish Face of US Empire.

Media Coverage of Amsterdam Soccer Riot Erases Zionist Hatred and Violence. 

Big tech, bigger lies.       America Can’t Afford a

 New Nuclear Buildup.

Climate. ‘No sign’ of promised fossil fuel transition as emissions hit new high.

This year has been masterclass in human destruction, UN chief tells Cop29. 

Noel’s notes.  Cop 30 Climate Summit probable change of venue – CorporateHub, Hades   Time to ban Israeli sporting teams, just as the world banned South African teams in the 1970s.
AUSTRALIA.

B-2 Bomber Strikes in Yemen and their significance for Australia.      Nuked: The Submarine Fiasco that Sank Australia’s Sovereignty, book by Murray Horton.      World teeters on brink as Trump and cronies prepare to flood the zone with shit.     The 101 ways Google serves up Australians to known scammers. More Australian nuclear news headlines at https://antinuclear.net/2024/11/16/australian-nuclear-news-11-18-november/

NUCLEAR  ITEMS

ARTS and CULTURE. The Atom & Us: Min-Kyoo Kim.
CLIMATE. **Evaluation of Nuclear as a Solution **-ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/?s=Evaluation+of+Nuclear+as+a+Solution
CIVIL LIBERTIES. “America First” Means Stomping Out Free Speech In The US In Order To Help Israel.

ECONOMICS. Ratepayers First: The Economic Case Against Nuclear’s Data Center Dreams.
 Nuclear Decommissioning Services Market Expected to Reach $11.79 Billion by 2034. What to know about Elon Musk’s contracts with the federal government.

EMPLOYMENT. Hinkley Point C ‘using cheap foreign labour’, say striking workers. ALSO AT
ENERGY. Donald Trump’s election victory deals blow to US clean energy industry – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2024/11/13/3-b1-donald-trumps-election-victory-deals-blow-to-us-clean-energy-industry/
At COP29, IRENA Outlook calls for ambitious NDC update a ‘Make or Break’ for Global Goal to Triple Renewables by 2030
 The Future of Nuclear Power is Wrought with Challenges.
ENVIRONMENT. North Somerset Council says no to ‘crazy’ EDF salt marsh plan. Farmers slam ‘crazy’ plans to flood 1,500 acres to save fish from a power plant. Leaked tritium reached the Mississippi.
EVENTS. 19 November – Webinar – Resisting the nuclear export and import policies in the age of climate crisis – Webinar on the International Joint Response to Nuclear Expansion- No Nukes Asia Forum (NNAF)

INDIGENOUS ISSUES. Ontario campaigners opposed to nuclear waste dumps suffer setbacks, but all is not lost as Canadian First Nations still to vote.

Project Pele: for Hawaii, DoD nuclear project besmirches Pele.

LEGAL. Imprisoned ex-Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder to ask Donald Trump for clemency, campaign attorney says.

MEDIA.

POLITICS.Ultra-Conservative War Hawks Dominate Trump Cabinet. Trump 2.0 promises US enabled Israeli genocide on steroids. Caitlin Johnstone: The Incoming Trump Administration Is Already Filling Up With War Sluts.Nuclear sector’s views on second Trump administration mixed as Rogan interview raises questions.Blinken Atrocious in a Dangerous World.Trump picks Liberty Energy CEO and Oklo nuclear company board member Chris Wright as Energy secretary.Restart of Three Mile Island tests US appetite for nuclear revival . Nuclear reactor in 2011 disaster-hit area restarted.Future of Point Lepreau Nuclear Power Plant: “All options must be considered,” including its closure – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2024/11/17/2-b1-future-of-point-lepreau-nuclear-power-plant-all-options-must-be-considered-including-its-closure/
POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.Head of UN nuclear watchdog: ‘Dire straits dynamic’ with Iran’s nuclear program amid Mideast wars.Saudi Crown Prince condemns Israel attacks on Palestinians as ‘genocide’.Biden Ramps Up Nuclear Brinkmanship On His Way Out The Door. Putin Tells German Leader That Ukraine Peace Deal Possible. Moscow continues to warn the West about the risk of nuclear escalation.

SECRETS and LIES.

The media’s role in lying about Amsterdam violence just keeps getting darker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HFM_V1rnPA

Secrecy ramping up as problems mount in the UK nuclear programme.

Inside the secret plan to re-open America’s most infamous nuclear power plant code named Tetris.

SPINBUSTER. Dispatch from a nuclear petting zoo.
TECHNOLOGY. Nuclear Fusion, forever the energy of tomorrow?
WASTES. Other sites considered for UK’s nuclear waste disposal. Missing: One nuclear waste dump site. Answers to the name of GDF..

WAR and CONFLICT.

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. Biden’s Last Minute US-Saudi Deal Could Open Door to Nuclear Arms Race.

November 18, 2024 Posted by | Christina reviews | Leave a comment

To 4 November – nuclear news, and more

Some bits of good news – Public health wins in Kenya, Uganda, Bangladesh, and Tanzania.   Peace on the horizon between China and India.

 A decline in carbon emissions in China is still in play.  

People power – 30 years of renewable energy: one company’s success story

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TOP STORIES. 

The Rise and Fall of NuScale: a nuclear cautionary tale. 

“Ford Watch: The Largest Nuclear Expansion in Canada’s History”. 

New Nuclear – Unaffordable, Undesirable and Unachievable

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Climate. UK lobbyists accused of ‘greenwashing’ oil-rich Azerbaijan before Baku COP summit

Record levels of heat-related deaths in 2023 due to climate crisis, report finds. Half of world’s biggest cities to face severe climate risks by 2050, LSEG finds.  Why were the floods in Spain so bad? A visual guide.  Climate Researchers Warn: Warmer Climate Could Lead To “Cold Waves Across Northern Europe”!

Noel’s notes. Canadians are waking up to the nuclear scam– Why are the media and other nations pretending that nuclear is just dandy?

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AUSTRALIA. 
Australian Civil Society Statement for COP29Baku, Azerbaijan.  Australia votes at the UN General Assembly. More Australian news at  https://antinuclear.net/2024/10/24/australian-nuclear-news-21-28-october/

NUCLEAR ITEMS 

ATROCITIES. Banning United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is a new way to kill children, aid groups warn. Oxfam reaction to Knesset decision. Israeli Knesset Passes Bill To Ban UN Palestinian Relief Agency.
CLIMATE. New Paper: Nuclear Weapons and Our Climate.
CIVIL LIBERTIES. Witnesses say the Israeli army is using facial recognition technology in its assault on north Gaza.
CULTURE. The Mainstream Western Worldview Pretends The Global South Does Not Exist. Israel will eventually pay price for Gaza genocide going on for a year: Turkish President Erdogana- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtoWptrhPOM

ECONOMICS.

EVENTS. CND to protest return of US nuclear weapons to Britain ahead of US presidential election. PETITION. Call for Peacekeeping Forces to Stop Israel’s Genocide

INDIGENOUS ISSUES. Saugeen Ojibway Nation stands firm on nuclear waste decision despite South Bruce vote
LEGAL. South Africa Files 750 Pages of ‘Overwhelming’ Evidence in ICJ Genocide Case Against Israel.
MEDIA. Israel Kills Five Journalists in Sunday Gaza Attacks. Israel kills the journalists-Western media kills the truth of genocide in Gaza . Despite History of Fabrication, Press Uncritically Covers IDF-Provided Documents on Hamas. 101 BBC journalists say it is biased against Palestine.
Atomic Reaction – a highly recommended feature-length documentary film.
OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR .South Bruce Deep Geological Repositary (DGR) opposition promises to keep fighting.
Gravelines nuclear power plant: EDF refuses to respond on flood risks and tries to silence whistleblowers.
Campaigners slam chancellor Rachel Reeves for £2.7 billion pledge to nuclear power station.
After two months, Nuclear Free Local Authorities receive vague response on Advanced’ Gas-Cooled Reactors (AGRs).

POLITICS.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.

SAFETY. Reeves urged not to cut Sellafield funds amid concern at rise in ‘near misses’.
The non-proliferation considerations of nuclear-powered submarines.
Onagawa nuclear plant’s restart sparks concerns over evacuation routes.
SECRETS and LIES. Yeah, Yeah, United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Is Hamas. Everyone Israel Hates Is Hamas.
Lest we forget – Nuclear Power Runs on Dirty Money: The Corporate Scandal of the Proposed National Nuclear Subsidy. 
Congress Must Investigate Corruption in Nuclear Energy Industry.

SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS.
 ExoAnalytic observes 500 pieces of debris from Intelsat 33e breakup

WASTES.

WAR and CONFLICT. South has raised risk of nuclear war, North Korea says.
WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. Report: US Sitting on Nearly 500 Reports of US Weapons Killing Civilians in Gaza.
Department of Defense Releases Fiscal Year 2024 Military Intelligence Program Budget – just the bare $29.8 billion.
Why ‘British’ nuclear weapons are really very American.

November 4, 2024 Posted by | Christina reviews | Leave a comment

This week: countering the nuclear-military-industrial news

A bit of good news. UNICEF highlights four proven policy solutions for children 

TOP STORIES 

Israel’s War on Journalism.   Israel’s Iran reprisal, Middle East destabilized.    ‘This is an extermination’: Israel’s assault on north Gaza’s last functioning hospital. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wKluf25Or0 

Sellafield cleanup cost rises to £136bn amid tensions with Treasury. 

 Japan struggles to find nuclear waste disposal site.

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Climate. Climate Goal “Will Be Dead Within a Few Years” Unless World Acts, UN Warns.     UNEP: New climate pledges need ‘quantum leap’ in ambition to deliver Paris goals.‘Climate crunch time’: UN warns world risks over 3C warming without urgent action this decade. 

‘We have emotions too’: Climate scientists respond to attacks on objectivity. 

Cop29 host Azerbaijan set for major fossil gas expansion, report says.

Biodiversity. Humanity is on the verge of ‘shattering Earth’s natural limits’, say experts in biodiversity warning

Noel’s notes.  Weep for Gaza, the Palestinians, weep for the Jews- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wKluf25Or0    Behind the really nasty “NICE” nuclear energy push to control the November COP Climate Change Conference. The world’s top lying nuclear salesman is after your climate action money.

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AUSTRALIA. Top Australian honour (whaa-at !!!!) for American politician who helped push Australia into the AUKUS agreement.    Union slams “false hope” in nuclear push, warns energy jobs at risk. Matt Kean lambasts ‘wild fantasy’ of former Coalition colleagues to extend coal power and build nuclear plants. Drink up: Peter Dutton needs one billion empty Coke cans to store his nuclear waste.     More nuclear news headlines at https://antinuclear.net/2024/10/24/australian-nuclear-news-21-28-october/

NUCLEAR ITEMS.

ATROCITIES. The Gazafication of Lebanon: Israel Blows up Nabatieh City Hall, kills Mayor and Aid Workers. When The Holocaust Returned It Came Denouncing Anti-Semitism And Wearing A Star Of David.
CLIMATE. Nuclear lobby on track to sabotage COP29 . Book: Meltdown nightmares: silent spring for climate change.
CIVIL LIBERTIES. Literary Institutions Are Pressuring Authors to Remain Silent About Gaza.
ECONOMICS. Cost overruns at Sellafield nuclear waste site to hit £136bn ALSO AT …..
EDUCATION. Nuclear lobby continues to infiltrate education. Nuclear lobby propagandises to kids AGAIN!
EMPLOYMENT. Green jobs and green skills – the state of play.
ENERGY. How data centres will cut carbon emissions, not increase them. Will AI’s huge energy demands spur a nuclear renaissance?
ENVIRONMENT. ‘Millions of fish could die’ under current Hinkley Point C plan. Fears salt marsh plan could lead to ‘destruction’ of Severn Vale.   Somerset village would be devastated by salt marsh plans.  Navy ‘Innovation’ Center  for “warfighting capabilities” will harm the Monterey Peninsula and ocean. Wildlife Refuge’s Toxic Past Still A Colorado Concern. Inside the radioactive island with mutant sharks that was used to test nuclear bombs.
EVENTS. Petition (UK). Scrutinise Sizewell C
HEALTH. Crew members on Royal Navy nuclear submarine left with ‘low supplies’ and suffering fatigue.
LEGAL. UK Snubs Council of Europe Over Assange Inquiry. Fighting for More Evidence of Assange’s Political Prosecution.
MEDIA. Media Hawks Make Case for War Against Iran. Israel Continues Its War On Journalism. Let’s talk about…Mainstream Media (MSM) Coverage of Israeli War Crimes. Western Press Scramble To Frame Israel’s Attack On Iran As Self Defense. Ha ha – Facebook removed my post AGAIN!
OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . ‘Nuclear waste would be disaster for our seaside’.
PLUTONIUM. Isotopic signature of plutonium accumulated in cryoconite on glaciers worldwide.

POLITICS.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. Path to peace in Ukraine is thru negotiated settlement, not escalatory war that could go nuclear.

Iran complains to IAEA about possible Israeli attack on nuclear sites. Biden to Bibi: ‘OK to continue Gaza genocide till after election’. President Biden’s depraved last 15 months enables Israel’s genocidal destruction of Gaza.

SAFETY.Iran complains to UN nuclear watchdog about Israeli threats against its nuclear sites.US nuclear regulator kicks off review on Three Mile Island restart.Letter laments the unscientific assurances of safety by spokesmen from the nuclear industry.Are Royal Navy nuclear deterrent submarines being re-supplied mid-patrol?
SECRETS and LIES. Mini-Nukes, Big Bucks: The Interests Behind the SMR Push.US authorizes CIA mercenaries to run biometric concentration camps in Gaza Strip.Secrecy over radioactive pollution from nuclear bases.
SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. Space Tech Is How Israel Targets Doctors’ & Journalists’ Homes For Bombing.
SPINBUSTER. Alistair Osborne – nuclear is waste of time and money– ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2024/10/25/2-a-alistair-osborne-nuclear-is-waste-of-time-and-money/‘You couldn’t make this up’: Expert pans Ontario nuclear option.
TECHNOLOGY. Three Mile Island nuclear plant gears up for Big Tech reboot.
URANIUM. Nuclear Energy Firm Orano Halts Niger Uranium Production

WASTES.

WAR and CONFLICT. Israel strikes Iran military targets amid fears of a wider war.
WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. CND condemns ‘outrageous railroading’ of US-UK nuclear agreement renewal through Parliament.

October 29, 2024 Posted by | Christina reviews | Leave a comment

This week – countering the nuclear-military-industrial -complex

Some bits of good news –  Powering Up the Global South    Elimination of trachoma as a public health problem in India. A powerful new film shows nature restoration in action.

TOP STORIES. 

Is it worse to have no climate solutions – or to have them but refuse to use them?

Israel attacks the United Nations . 

Secrets and Lies: This is how the West doomed Ukraine.Senior U.S. Diplomats, Journalists, Academics and Secretaries of Defense Say: the U.S. Provoked Russia in Ukraine.
Nuclear disarmament is an urgent cause in a world on the brink.
The Energy Department just made one plutonium pit. -making more is uncertain.


Making “Australia a Global Nuclear Waste Dump”: Senator Shoebridge on Labor’s Latest Betrayal.

Climate. The Atlantic Ocean’s currents are on the verge of collapse. This is what it means for the planet.

Noel’s notes.   All the way with AI – up, up, then -into the abyss?  Media enthusiasm for dodgy “cutting edge Lego-like micro-nuclear power plants” , (but doubts creep in).

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AUSTRALIA
Congressional report suggests Australia could dump plans to acquire AUKUS nuclear submarines. Australia’s democracy trashed, as Labor government + Liberal opposition join forces to push AUKUS bills through. Queensland Premier Steven Miles is promising to hold a vote on nuclear power. Here’s why. Deadly war for journalists.  More Australian nuclear news at https://antinuclear.net/2024/10/15/australian-nuclear-news-headlines-14-21-october/

NUCLEAR ITEMS

ARTS and CULTURE. “We’re Spending 2 Trillion Dollars on Weapons That Must Never Be Used”
ATROCITIES. Israel Is Routinely Shooting Children in the Head in Gaza: US Surgeon & Palestinian Nurse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgSZ1fTk4r8. We’re Basically Being Asked To Believe That The Palestinians Are Genociding Themselves.       Gabor Mate: ‘It’s like we’re watching Auschwitz on TikTok’.
CLIMATE. The world’s top lying nuclear salesman is after your climate action money. How carbon capture and storage and nuclear are adding little to decarbonisation compared to solar and wind.
ECONOMICS. ‘A catastrophically poor bargain for the UK’: Experts verdict on government plan for new nuclear finance. New investment sought for Hinkley Point C as French twin nuclear reactor switched on. Apollo Global Management Inc in Talks to Partly Finance EDF’s Hinkley UK Nuclear Power Plant.
ENERGY. Open AI Wants to Build Data Centres That Would Consume More Electricity Per Year Than the Whole of the U.K. Small nuclear reactors won’t be ready in time for the needs of energy-guzzling needs of Artificial Intelligence ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2024/10/18/2-b1-small-nuclear-reactors-wont-be-ready-in-time-for-the-needs-of-energy-guzzling-needs-of-artificisal-intelligence/
ENVIRONMENT. Oceans. A nuclear kettle of fish at Hinkley Point C. North Somerset village urges re-think on EDF salt marshes. Councillors raise concerns over fish populations at Hinkley C.Some Types of Pollution Are More Equal than Others.
LEGAL. Plutonium just had a bad day in court.Environmental groups challenge the nuclear industry’s portrayal of its energy as “clean” and “non-emitting,” citing health risks and long-term radioactive waste.
MEDIA. Revealed: The Israeli Spies Writing America’s News. Book: THE FALL OF ISRAEL: The Degradation of Israel’s Politics, Economy & Military. Deadly war for journalists – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykKth4sEbII
OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Campaigners welcome international investors to UK summit but urge them to boycott “toxic investment” Sizewell C 14.10.24. Open Letter to the Department for Energy Security –new nuclear power ‘a catastrophically poor bargain’
POLITICS. US opens applications for $900 million for small nuclear reactors (article includes a note of caution). Years after nuclear fiasco soaked ratepayers, leaders look at restarting VC Summer project .
POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. “Goodbye Lebanon” – High Israeli Official. Biden Says OK, So Far. “Israel must be expelled from the United Nations”. Israel’s War on the United Nations. Another Phony Biden PR Stunt About Humanitarian Aid In Gaza.Ukraine ‘will seek nuclear weapons’ if it cannot join Nato. Biden should channel Trump and talk to Putin.
North Somerset MP objects to salt marsh at Kingston Seymour.
SAFETY. New phase in safety work on Chernobyl’s original shelter. Incidents. Nuclear Missile Submarines Collided (Armed with Hundreds of Nuclear Weapons).
SECRETS and LIES. Exposed: How Israeli spies control your VPN (Virtual Private Network).Zelensky aide reveals secret clauses of ‘victory plan’.

SPINBUSTER.Refuting myths about nuclear and renewable energy.The Irony of Powering AI on Atomic Energy.Competition Bureau asked to address nuclear industry’s false and misleading claims of “clean” and “non-emitting” energy.
TECHNOLOGY. Google Pivots to Nuclear Reactors to Power Its Artificial Intelligence. What does Google’s move into nuclear power mean for AI – and the world? Amazon bets on nuclear power to fuel AI ambitions.
To make nuclear fusion a reliable energy source one day, scientists will first need to design heat- and radiation-resilient materials
WASTES. How to build a nuclear tomb to last millennia.Decommissioning. First ex-Royal Navy nuclear submarine to be disposed of enters final dismantling phase. Video. Gordon Edwards on Nuclear Fuel Waste Abandonment (South Bruce).
WAR and CONFLICT. Volodomyr’s World: A Delusional ‘Victory Plan’.
Widening the War: The US Sends Troops to Israel. Leaked US Intelligence Documents Outline Israeli Preparations to Strike Iran. Nuclear Fever: War Mongering on Iran. Report: Israel Plans To Strike Iran Before US Presidential Election.  Will Israel cross the red line of targeting Iran’s nuclear sites? An Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities could backfire.
Under the shadow of a NATO-Russia nuclear war, Hibakusha awarded Nobel Peace Prize.

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. 200+ Jewish-Led Protesters Arrested at NY Stock Exchange Say ‘Stop Arming Israel’. U.S. to Deploy Missile Defense System and About 100 Troops to Israel.

Germany Dismisses Ukraine’s Demands for Taurus Missiles and NATO Membership. Ukraine must have nukes or NATO – Zelensky.

NATO Announces Nuclear Drills as Nobel Goes to Atomic Weapon Abolitionists.

China’s openness about its latest nuclear missile test shows growing confidence vis-à-vis the United States. China not part of nuclear arms race, says envoy.

October 21, 2024 Posted by | Christina reviews | Leave a comment

How in the hell do you cope with Facebook?

This what happened today.

  1. Oct 14, 2024 We removed your post

Noel Christina Wauchope
Oct 14, 2024
https://www.nuclearpolicy.info/news/uk-and-ireland-partners-congratulate-2024-nobel-peace-prize-winner/
You shared this on your profile

2. Facebook removed my post about “Threads” brings nuclear war fears to a new audience- . https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2dp8197y3eo

Noel Christina Wauchope, Oct 14, 2024

3 . Face book removed this one (hardly surprising – they can’t cope with criticism.

FACEBOOK hits a new low – removing a post that congratulated the Nobel Peace Prize winners ! I didn’t read their “reasons”. But I guess, as usual, I have “offended community standards” by saying something negative about nuclear. Oct 14, 2024 We removed your post Noel Christina Wauchope Oct 14, 2024 https://www.nuclearpolicy.info/news/uk-and-ireland-partners-congratulate-2024-nobel-peace-prize-winner/ You shared this on your profile

You shared this on your profile

This goes against our Community Standards on spam.

So – now I have put up a new post – in the hopes they won’t expel me.

I am thinking of becoming a very sweet nice person. How could I have, all these years, said things unpleasant about the most successful new technologies? Sorry, everyone. I won’t offend again. Because I really would like to stay on this lovely social media.

And guess what? Facebook has not removed this one, and have not yet kicked me out!

Can we possibly beat these bastards with humour?

October 13, 2024 Posted by | Christina reviews | Leave a comment

Nuclear news and more -week to 7 October

Some bits of good news – 

Humanitarian action for children – the work of UNICEF  (United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund) in 2024 UNICEF a great example of  a caring agency that never gives up.

Tripling renewable energy worldwide by 2030 is within reach. Rooftop solar is trending in Australia.
Barcelona is turning subway trains into power stations.

California bans all plastic bags at grocery stores. 

TOP STORIESMedia Urge Expansion of Ukraine War—Nuclear Risk Be Damned. 
Israel Planning Major Attack on Iran. Biden says he would not back Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear sites.
Pentagon “goes to school” -William Hartung, The Battle for the Soul of American Science.
Russia revisits nuclear doctrine to allow attacks on non-nuclear states in response to Western weapons in Ukraine- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/?s=Russia+revisits

Finally Free, Assange Receives a Measure of Justice From the Council of Europe.

Unrealisable Justice : Julian Assange in Strasbourg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai34Uxnv_4s

Climate. Huge Arctic wildfires release 100m tonnes of greenhouse gas in a year. EDF summer heat cuts double but below 9-year median.

Noel’s notes.   In praise of Joe Biden – an unfashionable opinion.

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AUSTRALIA. What nuclear power in the United States tells us about the Coalition’s controversial energy policy

Hey Australia, Ontario is no model for energy and climate policy. 

Big Super is still investing in nuclear weapons: report More Australian nuclear news at https://antinuclear.net/2024/09/30/australian-nuclear-news-oct-1-7/

NUCLEAR ITEMS

ATROCITIES. Urgent Action by S. Korean Civil Society in Solidarity with Palestine.
CLIMATE. Sorry, AI won’t “fix” climate change – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2024/10/03/1-a-sorry-ai-wont-fix-climate-change/
Hurricane Helene Floods Closed Duke Nuclear Plant in Florida. Hurricane Helene sends a warning. Jane Fonda: Nuclear power at Three Mile Island is no climate solution.
Greenpeace warns of flooding risks at France’s biggest nuclear plant.
CIVIL LIBERTIES. ‘Pursuit of truth will live on’: Assange speaks to the world.

ECONOMICS. Sizewell C nuclear project hit by fresh delays as investment talks drag on ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2024/10/05/1-b1-sizewell-c-nuclear-project-hit-by-fresh-delays-as-investment-talks-drag-on/

Czechs take stake in Rolls-Royce vehicle in boost for SMRs ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2024/10/07/1-b1-czechs-take-stake-in-rolls-royce-vehicle-in-boost-for-smrs/

NUCLEAR power is a fiscal sinkhole ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2024/10/07/1-b1-nuclear-power-is-a-fiscal-sinkhole/

ENERGY. Ukrainian energy minister censured over nuclear plan, response to power grid attacks.
South Australia sets spectacular new records for wind, solar and negative demand.
ENVIRONMENT. ‘Environmental impact’ of Hinkley Point C debate due.Oceans: IAEA to have marine sampling near Fukushima plant with China, others,
ETHICS and RELIGION. Israel’s Ideology of Genocide Must be Confronted and Stopped.
Royal Navy chief apologises for ‘intolerable’ misogyny in Submarine Service.
EVENT. 10 October – Space Demilitarization – Live Q&A. Beyond the Battlefield: Demilitarizing Space for Global Peace A Live Q&A on Space Militarization and Demilitarization REGISTER.
HEALTH. Radon, even at levels below EPA guideline for mitigation, is linked to childhood leukemia.
HUMAN RIGHTS. Assange: ‘I’m Free Because I Pled Guilty to Journalism’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vCm6ybW2WA
LEGAL.Trial in New Hampshire of protesters against Elbit Systems – supplier of weapons for Israel..DOE Plutonium Pit Plan Found To Violate Environmental Law.Nuclear Waste Storage Site in Texas Draws Supreme Court Review. US Supreme Court to hear nuclear waste storage dispute.

Sellafield ordered to pay nearly £400,000 over cybersecurity failings.
MEDIA.
‘Western Press Obscured the Sheer Terror of What Israel Had Carried Out’: CounterSpin interview with Mohamad Bazzi on Lebanon pager attacks.
Meta Is Aggressively Censoring Criticism Of US-Israeli Warmongering.
‘Petrobromance,’ Nuclear Priesthood, and Police Repression: Feminist Confrontations of Violent Industries, and Movements to Abolish Them.
POLITICS. Donald Trump encourages Israel to strike Iran’s nuclear sites.
Kazakhstan’s Nuclear Power Vote: Many Questions, But Just One On The Ballot,
POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. Israel has given no assurances it won’t target Iran’s nuclear facilities, top State Department official tells CNN. “Hit Iran’s Nuclear Sites First”: Donald Trump’s Advice To Israel.
France asserts itself against Netanyahu over Lebanon: Macron calls for Arms Embargo against Israel.

SAFETY.

SECRETS and LIES. Refurbished Three Mile Island Payment Structure Is Not Quite What It Seems.
SPINBUSTER. It is Time to Expose the Great British Nuclear Fantasy Once and for All. What reports got wrong about China’s ‘sunken nuclear submarine’. At last – one corporate newsmedia admits there is no “cloud” – only dirty great steel structures. ALSO AT …….
WASTES. Decommissioning. First civil nuclear site decommissioned in the UK. UK Government seeks software to track radioactive waste as nuclear site decommissioned.

WAR and CONFLICT. Glenn Greenwald: Who is Really Dragging the US Into Israel’s Wars? – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSJh4A_go6E

Nuclear Annihilation Threatened by Revival of 20th Century McCarthy Era Cold War & Red Scare.

The Israeli Government Must Be Stopped. Israel may launch symbolic attack on Iran nuclear-related facilities, says Ehud Barak. Netanyahu’s dangerous gambit to start nuclear war.

Sullivan: US Will Ensure Iran Faces ‘Severe Consequences’ for Attacking Israel.

Russia’s Nuclear Doctrine Change Is More Cautious Than It May Appear. The guns of August killed 15 million…the missiles of October could kill 8 billion. Prof. Jeffrey Sachs: D.C. Doesn’t Care About Ukraine War MASS DEATHS – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho7IOATIf9s

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. Recognition of “double madness” at the International Day for Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. Governments urged to ‘stop gambling with humanity’s future’ and eliminate nuclear weapons. 

Inside the State Department’s Weapons Pipeline to Israel.

October 7, 2024 Posted by | Christina reviews | Leave a comment

Week to 30 September- countering the nuclear-military-industrial-political spin

Some bits of good news.    

– Women Wage Peace .   Countries’ climate obligations could be legally defined at top UN court in December.Vertical Greening Brings Nature to Urban ‘Heat Islands’ Quickly and Easily.

TOP STORIES. How civilisation could end – an all-too-possible nuclear scenario. 

The Israeli nuclear risk no one is talking about.

Cold War II: US Congress passes 25 anti-China laws in 1 week, funds propaganda campaign. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tix5L5qDaNw

Ukraine’s Zelensky arriving in US….to pitch WWIII. 

The Madness of Antony Blinken.  Antony Blinken LIED?! State Dept Caught WITHHOLDING Humanitarian Aid From Gaza https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb30Sn6WR-s

Nuclear finance will rely on consumers’ stomach for risk. ALSO AT …… https://nuclear-news.net/2024/09/27/2-a-nuclear-finance-will-rely-on-consumers-stomach-for-risk/

From the archives.   Questions still remain on the suspicious death of nuclear worker Karen SilkwoodWeek to 30 September.

Climate. Green campaigners lambast UN climate summit hosts for clinging to fossil fuels .

Noel’s notes. Hurricane Helene : when global heating collides with our dependence on digital systems. I would rather have tough-guy macho men, than slimy sweet-talk hypocrites.

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AUSTRALIA.

Defence Minister Marles, with all pretension, flogging a dead seahorse. 

Nuclear Concerns – Hiroshima, Maralinga and Dutton’s Australia. 

Climate Change Authority head Matt Kean contradicts Peter Dutton’s claim on nuclear and renewables working together. 

Australians are installing batteries at a record rate, as rooftop solar heads for major new milestone. Renewable and Energy storage jobs will soon overtake those in coal and gas. 

More Australian news headlines at https://antinuclear.net/2024/09/24/australian-nuclear-news-headlines-23-30-september/

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NUCLEAR ITEMS

ATROCITIES. Israel’s Tally of War Crimes in Lebanon Increases in Wake of Exploding Pagers.

CLIMATE.
Hurricane Helene Floods Closed Duke Nuclear Plant in Florida.

ECONOMICS. Nuclear fuel costs soar as conversion and enrichment bottleneck strains supply.

US company eliminated from race to build Britain’s first mini-nuclear. ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2024/09/29/2-b1-us-company-eliminated-from-race-to-build-britains-first-mini-nuclear-plant/ Why NuScale Power Stock Dropped Today.

EDUCATION. “Peaceful” and war-making nuclear industries get together in tertiary education.

ENERGY. Microsoft’s Three Mile Island deal: How big tech is snatching up nuclear power. US nuclear plants won’t power up Big Tech’s AI ambitions right away.


ENVIRONMENT. Charities call for greater transparency over Sizewell C.

ETHICS and RELIGION
Cardinal Parolin: ‘World threatened by irreversible nuclear destruction’.

EVENTS. Sleepwalking into War? IPAN Conference 2024 –– October 4-6 in Perth,Australia or attend online The Independent and Peaceful Australia Network.

HUMAN RIGHTS. Assange to Testify at Council of Europe.

MEDIA. Losing The Narrative War: Israel Illegally Raids and Shuts Down Al Jazeera’s West Bank Bureau. Going From “The Civilian Buildings Are Hamas” To “The Civilian Buildings Are Hezbollah“. The Looming Catastrophe in the Middle East (w/ Gideon Levy) | The Chris Hedges Report.

PLUTONIUM. Japan and 11 other countries call for early start of fissile material ban talks.

POLITICS. A push for compensation for U.S. nuclear testing fallout resumes on Capitol Hill. . Mistaking Militarism for Statecraft, Empire for Democracy and Debt for Prosperity.

Nuclear Weapons and the U.S. Presidential Elections.

Weatherwatch: UK Labour’s stance on nuclear power is worryingly familiar. Scottish National Party blasts Labour for ‘frittering away’ money on nuclear plant instead of winter fuel payment.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.

SAFETY.

SECRETS and LIES

Blinken Lied To Congress About Israeli War Crimes Because He Knows He’ll Get Away With It. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYEBm0eKuo0 

  Karen Silkwood and Kerr-McGee: A Reinvestigation.

SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. NASA’s uncrewed Artemis mission highlights radiation risk to astronauts.

Woomera Manual: International Law Meets Military Space Activities.

WASTES. Despite vastly different social and political contexts, Finland, Germany and France are all grappling with the question of safe nuclear waste disposal.

Spent nuclear fuel shipped to Japan’s 1st interim storage facility in Aomori.

New developments at Sellafield for endless storage of ever-increasing amounts of highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel.

WAR and CONFLICT. After destroying Ukraine and Gaza, Biden seeks a destroyed nation trifecta in Lebanon.

The Illusion of a Solution: Killing Hassan Nasrallah. Netanyahu: Israel Is Fighting a War on Seven Fronts . Israel: ‘Escalate to De-escalate’.

Putin outlines new rules for Russian use of vast nuclear arsenal. Ukraine army attacks nuclear plant substation: Russia.

Ambassadors called upon to refrain from military action involving nuclear plants. Wars, Propaganda Wars and Funding Them.

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. US Gives Israel $8.7 Billion in Military Aid for Operations in Gaza and Lebanon. War Forever, Everywhere, War Doesn’t End When It “Ends“.

Japan’s new Prime Minister calls for deployment of US nuclear weapons.

October 1, 2024 Posted by | Christina reviews | Leave a comment

This week – exposing and counteracting nuclear-military-industrial spin

Some bits of good news.  World leaders gathered in the UN headquarters in New York and adopted the Pact for the Future, cementing the shift away from fossil fuels as the fundamental norm for climate action. 
After a two-year project by UNICEF and the German government, Torit, a city in South Sudan, is now efficiently providing clean water to over 80% of its population.

TOP STORIES. Selling War: How Raytheon and Boeing Fund the Push for NATO’s Nuclear Expansion. 

Global status report highlights parlous state of nuclear power sector.Opening Pandora’s Electronic Box.Welcome to Planet Vogtle! The Lessons of Georgia’s Nuclear Boondoggle.

 Tritium into the air?

Sizewell C now: from farce to drama.
 Labour backs nuclear – but at what cost? – ALSO AT  https://nuclear-news.net/2024/09/22/1-a-labour-backs-nuclear-but-at-what-cost/ 

The 2024 World Nuclear Industry Status Report now released.

Climate. Online Misinformation Harming Climate Change Effort: UN Chief.

Hunger. When Will It Be Enough? Humanitarian organizations call for urgent action from World Leaders as the people of Sudan face unprecedented starvation and violence [EN/AR]

Noel’s notes. Nuclear socialism in its glory – in The West?

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AUSTRALIA. Peter Dutton refuses to divulge costs of going nuclear at anticipated ‘could it work’ speech. Peter Dutton and the pursuit of fame . The UK’s nuclear waste problem. Nuclear debate stalls as detail goes missing in action. “Catastrophic:” Coalition plan to stop renewables and push nuclear will result in massive supply gaps. 

AUKUS boss insists project remains on track despite frustrations and staff upheaval within submarine agency.   

 South Australia joins Denmark in elite club of two, “pushing the boundaries” of renewable energy integration. More Australian nuclear news headlines at https://antinuclear.net/2024/09/21/australian-nuclear-news-headlines-16-23-september/        

NUCLEAR ITEMS

ARTS and CULTURE. Nuclear Free Local Authorities want to lament, not ‘celebrate’ nuclear legacy.
ATROCITIES.
 22,500 Palestinians Now Have Life-Changing Injuries Due to Israel’s Genocide.    

CLIMATE. Data center emissions probably 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse? 

ECONOMICS.

Call for banks to back nuclear energy projects. World’s biggest banks pledge support for nuclear power/                                   

Western, Russian nuclear industries still intertwined, report says.

Nuclear in Australia would increase household power bills.

Hinkley Point C: Building Britain’s first nuclear reactor in 30 years.

Serbia picks EDF, Egis for study on introduction of nuclear energy.

New logo for Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) represents a costly conversation.

MIT Coalition for Palestine Announces Major Divestment Win.

EDUCATION. ‘The Genocide Gentry’: Weapon Execs Sit on Boards of Universities, Institutions

ENERGY.

ENVIRONMENT. Hinkley Point C must deploy mandated protections for fish. A Suffolk wildlife and conservation charity has called for “greater transparency” from Sizewell C in relation to its wildlife compensation schemes.

ETHICS and RELIGION. Jewish Council disappointed at Australia’s UN abstention, calls for strong international action to prevent Israeli war crimes.

New Book Explores the Intersection of God and Nuclear Weapons.

HEALTH. 
Radiation. Radiation levels mysteriously spike along Norway’s border with Russia – as it’s claimed activity has been seen at test site for Putin’s ‘Flying Chernobyl’ nuclear missile

LEGAL. Nuke waste confusion continues with D.C. Circuit ruling.

MEDIA. ‘Genocide Can and Should Never Be Just a Normal Story’ CounterSpin interview with Gregory Shupak on Palestinian genocide.

Australian film-maker refused entry into India.

Nuclear horror still haunts us Threads tapped into our fear of apocalypse.

POLITICS. Patrick Lawrence: The ‘War Party’ Makes Its Plans. Biden, Harris sacrificing endless thousands of Ukrainians to retain presidency November 5. The experts comment: Key nuclear questions that the US presidential candidates should answer.

‘Obvious Conflict of Interest’: Report Reveals 50+ US Lawmakers Hold Military Stocks.

One big factor could decide if one of Wales’ biggest (nuclear) projects can happen.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.

SAFETY. Safety level at Scotland’s largest nuclear site raised to ‘enhanced’ after leaks found. Scottish nuclear base staff using pagers adds to Trident fears.

New iodine tablets for communes near French nuclear power sites.

SPINBUSTER. More nuclear reactors? Denying the risks, IAEA’s Grossi promotes unrealistic nuclear power plans.

The UK government deserves an award for the biggest load of nuclear propaganda BS yet!. Nuclear waste group spends £4,600 on logo to show it IS listening toTheddlethorpe views.

TECHNOLOGY. UK Government designates data centres as Critical National Infrastructure (Whaa-aa-t!).

Microsoft deal propels Three Mile Island restart, with key permits still needed.

Unrealistic expectations for So-Called Novel Nuclear Reactor Concepts. 

URANIUM. Surge in Russian uranium sent to China.

WASTES.

WAR and CONFLICT

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. North Korea inadvertently gives away location of nuclear weapons facility, with pictures of Kim Jong-un visit.

Germany will not lift restrictions on long-range weapons for Kiev.

Turkey needs to acquire nuclear arms to stop Israel, urges Erdogan’s chief fatwa giver.

UN overwhelmingly votes to sanction Israel, impose arms embargo.

September 23, 2024 Posted by | Christina reviews | Leave a comment

Peter Dutton and the pursuit of fame.


21 September 24  https://theaimn.com/peter-dutton-and-the-pursuit-of-fame/

Peter Dutton is the leader of Australia’s opposition party – the Liberal-National Coalition.

Which is pretty noteworthy and important, anyway. But of course, he would be more important if he is elected as Prime Minister in 2025. But is that enough fame for him?

Dutton aspires to a greater, global, significance. He would be the first world leader to introduce the commercial, peaceful, advanced nuclear industry to not just a country, but to an entire continent. And not to some “third-world” “undeveloped” country “in need of charity” – but to a prosperous, privileged, purportedly well-educated, and still mainly white population.

For the global nuclear industry – that would be a first! And not just any old first, but an extremely timely one. Just released this week, The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2024 describes an industry on life support. Even back in 2016 Former World Nuclear Association executive Steve Kidd spoke to this problem, noting that “the industry is essentially running to stand still.”

For Australia to adopt a government-run nuclear industry involving both large and small nuclear reactors across a continent – what a wonderful shot in the arm for the global nuclear lobby. And Dutton – what a hero!

Dutton would be famous not just in Australia, but world-wide

Is this why Peter Dutton is promoting his nuclear policy?

I can’t think of any other reason.

Australia, especially in the State of South Australia, is becoming a world leader in renewable energy use – particularly in decentralised household rooftop solar, but also in large solar and wind programmes. Of course, Australia’s mining magnates are pretty happy with Dutton’s plan, as it will mean more mining, not just of uranium, but of coal and gas in the decades before nuclear power actually comes into use.

So – look – it’s a winner for Dutton’s fame.

And if that doesn’t work, there’s fame in another way

The last Liberal Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, is a great contender for the worst Prime Minister in Australian history. Just a few of his achievements to merit this award were:

Economically, the nuclear power programme, added to the continuing AUKUS nuclear deal, could pretty well bankrupt Australia. Although Dutton claims that nuclear power will be cheap, he’s given no costings, and the over-riding opinion of energy and economics experts is that nuclear power would be the most expensive form of energy for Australia.

Environmentally, Dutton’s plan includes advanced nuclear reactors, which will require plutonium or enriched uranium – so this brings virtually eternal radioactive pollution into Australia (something that has been nearly avoided up until now). It also brings the hazards of nuclear weapons proliferation, and terrorism targets.

So – it’s a bold venture for Peter Dutton, to centre his election campaign on promoting the nuclear industry. He is to be commended for bravery in taking such a big risk.

If Dutton carries this through, as Prime Minister, he will rapidly gain world fame.

But also, as far as Australia is concerned, he could beat Scott Morrison into history as the nation’s worst Prime Minister.

Dutton’s big risk is that he might not get elected in 2025, and vanish very quickly from history.

September 21, 2024 Posted by | Christina reviews, politics | Leave a comment

ABOUT THE Submissions – re new agreement on Naval Nuclear Propulsion

I started out to copy and publish the Submissions – from the Australian Parliament website –    https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Treaties/NuclearPropulsion/Submissions

I expected that there would be very few

Even the Parliament, let alone the public, has not been properly informed about this planned Treaty : Agreement among the Government of Australia, the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the Government of the United States of America for Cooperation Related to Naval Nuclear Propulsion.

The vast majority of Australians, and most of the Members of Parliament would have been unaware of the government Inquiry into this, and its call for Submissions.

No wonder the government liked it all to be pretty hush-hush. This Treaty will surely go down in history as the Albanese government’s biggest botch-up. Mind you, it all was started in an equally quiet and uninformed way by the previous Scott Morrison government’s disastrous AUKUS pact. At the time, the then Labor Opposition had less than 24 hours to decide on whether to support it. Afraid of looking “weak on China” – they made the wrong decision.

While the media concentrated on the “important” stuff – Paris Olympics, celebrities, fashion, and some real news, – the new AUKUS plan was not in it.

Anyway, surprisingly, the number of submissions published is now up to 191. I am not able to publish them all. But I’m going through them, to find out their themes , and to see in anyone actually supports this very odd Treaty.

September 17, 2024 Posted by | Christina reviews | Leave a comment

An avalanche of objections to the latest proposed AUKUS nuclear treaty.

Have pity on me. I said I would copy and publish all the submissions to this jargonistic, almost impenetrable latest USA/UK plan to hoodwink Australia into paying $squillions for useless soon-obsolete nuclear submarines, and also taking in their foul radioactive trash.

The proposed Treaty had virtually no publicity, and a short-timed not-publicised call for submissions.

So I thought that there’d be only a very few intrepid souls from the usual suspects – Friends of the Earth etc – who would wade through it all, and write an excellent submission.

But – I was wrong – it’s now up to 134 submissions published. Not counting the earliest 2 pro-nuke ones, I’m just coming across angry submission after angry submission saying NO to this AUKUS proposal. I’m sure I will come to the pro-nuclear ones – but not so far.

Anyway – gotta stop now and have A Nice Cup Of Tea.

It is good to know that not all Australians are suckers for American militarism.

September 12, 2024 Posted by | Christina reviews | Leave a comment

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