Nuclear news – week to 2nd October
Some bits of good news – Brazil – Major win for the protection of Indigenous Rights. Indonesia – Deforestation halted on Awyu Indigenous Lands
TOP STORIES It’s Time to Admit the Truth About the War in Ukraine—and Course Correct. People Are Dying For Inches In Ukraine, The “World’s Largest Arms Fair”. Canada’s Honoring of Nazi Veteran Exposes Ottawa’s Longstanding Ukraine Policy. The Mad Propaganda Push To Normalize War Profiteering In Ukraine.
Is World War III About to Start? Part II: Are the Military-Industrial Complex and Deep State Driving Us to War?
France pushes pro-nuclear momentum to host global talks at OECD, to get tax-payer funding for the nuclear industry.
Climate. Antarctic sea ice at lowest winter level ever. Portuguese youhs sue UK and 32 others for climate change failure. The solar world we might have had. ‘We’re not doomed yet’: climate scientist Michael Mann on our last chance to save human civilisation.
Chistina notes. Don’t let’s be beastly to the Nazis.
Nuclear. Not strictly nuclear – but could lead to nuclear war. All-too easy acceptance of Nazi philosophy, Nazi influence, in Ukraine’s fight against Russia. The recent Canadian experience of national leaders fawning all over a Nazi war criminal is a reminder of Nazi influence around the world – and Australia has its share, too. Over-zealous hatred of Russia, and Russia’s reaction to this, could tip things over into nuclear war
AUSTRALIA. Nuclear power is a non-starter . Uranium clean-up way over budget, running late… sounds like true nuclear power. Nuclear power on Surf Coast “incomprehensible”, says Greens MP. Australia does not need a new “nuclear medicine” factory – clean, safe, cyclotrons can do the job. New nuclear medicine factory to replace ageing site at Lucas Heights reactor. Sydney smashes 1 October heat record as Victoria fights bushfires.
CLIMATE. A “New Cold War” on an Ever-Hotter Planet.
ECONOMICS. France’s nuclear power sector is not delivering. Governments have unpopular decisions to make to achieve their nuclear aims.
EDUCATION. UK’s nuclear lobby to take over education site?
ENERGY. Solar and wind farms can easily power the UK by 2050, scientists say. Chart: China’s solar export dominance grows with surging European orders.
Microsoft May Go Nuclear to Support Its Energy-Hungry Artificial Intelligence. UK risks power supply crunch in January as nuclear plants halt.
ENVIRONMENT. Water. Microsoft Is Using a Hell of a Lot of Water to Flood the World With AI. Oceans. Japan to release second batch of wastewater from Fukushima nuclear plant next week
ETHICS and RELIGION. Vatican at U.N. : Risk of nuclear war is ‘at its highest in generations’.
HISTORY. Monuments to Ukrainian Nazis in Canada.
LEGAL. US Flouts International Law With Pacific Military Claims.
MEDIA. Mainstream “Newsweek” Wakes up to Reality: “$113 Billion in Modern Arms Hardly Dented Russian Lines”. Film examines France’s nuclear history in Algeria.
NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY. Trudeau warned of nuclear weapon risk over emerging small modular reactors. A mature design or junk? EDF plan for Sizewell C continues to rely on controversial EPR reactor. The Cyber Threat to Nuclear Non-Proliferation. Microsoft Sees Artificial Intelligence and Nuclear Energy as Dynamic Duo.
OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR : Protests. ‘The World Is at Stake’: Defuse Nuclear War Kicks Off Nationwide Week of Action, Greenpeace disrupts nuclear power meeting in Paris.
PLUTONIUM. Nuclear experts raise new concerns about industry-led policy proposals to separate plutonium in Canada
POLITICS. Editorial: Japan city’s rejection of nuclear waste site probe casts doubt on gov’t stance.
Ottawa yet to decide whether reprocessing spent nuclear fuel should be allowed in Canada. Flagging Support: Zelenskyy Loses Favour in Washington. Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr Will Run For President As An Independent: REPORT.
Democrat congressman Adam Schiff funneled millions to defense contractors after taking donations. North Korean parliament enshrines nuclear ambitions in constitution. Scottish independence would end the UK’s nuclear delusion. Byron Blake Critical assessment of nuclear energy in Jamaica’s future
POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.
- European Commission is ‘willing to consider’ subsidies for nuclear technology, says von der Leyen.
- Polish minister calls for extradition of Ukrainian Nazi honored in Canada.
- American Meddling Failed To Prevent Robert Fico’s Victory In The Latest Slovak Elections.
- Qatar calls for Israeli nuclear facilities to be subjected to IAEA safeguards.
- North Korea slams UN nuclear agency as US mouthpiece.
- US Pacific Security Deal With Marshall Islands at Risk Over Nuclear Payments Description,
- Nuclear Arms Control: U.S. May Face Challenges in Verifying Future Treaty Goals.
SAFETY. Bring radiation regulations up to international standards, say Nuclear Free Local Authorities.
Fresh concerns over Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant: Emerging Europe this week. ‘Unprecedented nuclear crisis’ at Russian-controlled power plant with 148 attacks.
SECRETS and LIES. Canadian Parliament Gives Standing Ovation to Man Who Served in Waffen SS. German ambassador applauded Ukrainian Waffen SS Nazi – Berlin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko3catBWKb8 . Nazigate: Canada’s top general won’t apologize for applauding Ukrainian Waffen-SS vet. The Zelensky lie is coming to an end.
Chinese Balloon Was Not Spying, US Government Admits Months Later. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgWv3kXUn10&t=31s
SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. Star-crossed States: No result from the UN Working Group on Reducing Space Threats. Elon Musk’s satellites litter the heavens as astonishing video shows how 5,000 Starlink aircraft are whizzing around the Earth and will soon outnumber the stars.
SPINBUSTER. New Brunswick Indigenous communities and Canadians need facts about Small Modular Nuclear Reactors, not sales hype.
WASTES. Nuclear waste ship makes unprecedented port call at Novaya Zemlya
What will happen to 140-tonne stockpile of combustible sodium at Dounreay? UK government decides not to take Allerdale further in GDF nuclear waste siting process due to limited suitable geology. Many years for UK government to find a nuclear waste site with suitable geology and a willing community. British communities torn between the lure of government bribes and the realities of hosting toxic radioactive trash virtually forever.
Japan city forgoes applying for government survey on nuclear waste site. Finland’s nuclear waste: delay in completing the review of operating licence application and safety assessment. Fate of Indian Point Wastewater Still Unclear.
WAR and CONFLICT. Kiev’s counteroffensive is unlikely to achieve its goals – US officials to New York Times. New York Times Says ‘Evidence Suggests’ Ukrainian Missile Misfire To Blame For Market Tragedy. US and UK involved in attack on Crimea – Russia. Caitlin Johnstone: Neocons Love the Ukraine War.
WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. UN warns of ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ in growing nuclear arms race. Pentagon discloses military deal with Elon Musk. Return of US nuclear weapons to UK would be an escalation, says Russia. NUCLEAR BRINKMANSHIP IN AI-ENABLED WARFARE: A DANGEROUS ALGORITHMIC GAME OF CHICKEN.
Nuclear news – week to 25 September
A bit of good news. Water voles are back in the swim of things on the River Ver.
TOP STORIES.
A powerful minority makes the nuclear decisions, in a strategy of concealment.
Alarmed by Risk of Nuclear Escalation among Major Powers, Speakers in General Assembly Warn Growing Distrust, Divisions Are Driving Multilateral System towards Dysfunction.
Andreyeva Bay cleanup slows to a snail’s pace since invasion of Ukraine. In 2023, the risky part of Andreyeva Bay nuclear cleanup starts.
We’re Being Prepared For The Ukraine War To Last Into The 2030s.
Top nuclear experts urge Biden to not allow Saudi uranium enrichment in mega-deal.Climate. Introducing Southern Frontlines – news on the climate crisis from Latin America and the Caribbean
Nuclear. So much stuff about impending war – it’s almost exhausting, but little concern for the soldiers,
On the strictly nuclear front – I’m amazed that the Western media can go on about nuclear submarines, and pretty much ignore their waste problem. The Russian experience – Andreyeva Bay – should give everyone pause to worry about this.
Christina notes. The harrowing truth about the war in Ukraine. Wonderful nuclear submarines!! Let’s not spoil the joy by thinking about their WASTES.
AUSTRALIA. Mission to Free Assange: Australian Parliamentarians in Washington. South Asian leader slams AUKUS pact. The push for nuclear energy in Australia is driven by delay and denial, not evidence. Push for nuclear energy ignores glaring problem.
Nuclear too costly, too slow, too risky for Australia. Modelling shows estimated cost of Peter Dutton’s nuclear energy plan. Bowen demolishes case expensive for nuclear power. ‘Build renewables, not nuclear’: energy execs reject reactors.
Australia must do more than pay lip service to nuclear disarmament. Let’s Label #USPropaganda – Call it out.- Our crews at Boeing and disrupting General Mick Ryan.
CLIMATE. Elephant In The Climate Room: Rocket Launches.
ECONOMICS.
- Bidenomics: Millions to Rebuild Maui, Billions for Ukraine.
- UK launches search for private investment in Sizewell C nuclear project. UK’s Sizewell Nuclear Investors to Face Security Checks. Sizewell nuclear investment may prove radioactive.War
- Profiteers Are A Sign Of A Profoundly Sick Society.
- Fukushima: China’s seafood imports from Japan down 67% in August.
ENVIRONMENT. Water. Cooling system at Zaporizhzhya stabilised – but military action in the area continues
ETHICS and RELIGION. On The Idiotic Notion That It’s Brave To Support Nuclear Brinkmanship In Ukraine. Pope says world on brink of nuclear war like 1962 Cuban missile crisis.
HEALTH. Mental health. The Ukrainian Morale in the Battlefield: A Snapshot
HISTORY. Our nuclear legacy and the weight of history.
LEGAL. Sizewell C seeks outside investment as Together Against Sizewell C Limited (TASC) granted permission to appeal against the project. Campaigners win permission to appeal against Sizewell C Nuclear Power Station ruling. Nuclear bomb test veterans relaunch legal action.
MEDIA. New York Time’s Incredibly Low Bar for Labeling Someone ‘Pro-Putin’.
NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY. Bill Gates’ nuclear firm Terrapower fears falling behind in Small Nuclear Reactor race.
OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Floating for Peace on the Golden Rule. Time to arrest deployment of nuclear weapons in Constable’s County, Nuclear Free Local Authorities tell Ministers. If Fukushima water is safe, store it in Japan, says Prime Minister of Solomon Islands. In Kenya, police break up an environmental meeting that was explaining nuclear hazards.
PERSONAL STORIES. Nuclear test veteran from Ipswich among first to receive medal.
POLITICS. UK. Conflating councils with communities causes confusion in nuclear dump areas. Sizewell C nuclear, if built, will be late and obsolete. Tory MP inexplicably asks for nuclear powered frigates. EDF and French government clash over nuclear strategy. Building Irish nuclear energy plants ‘does not make economic sense’, Eamon Ryan, Green Party leader. USA -another reason to oppose expanding nuclear power.
USA. “Republicans for Ukraine”s refreshingly honest Ukraine war ad
Crown prince confirms Saudi Arabia will seek nuclear arsenal if Iran develops one.
POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.
- U.S. HELPED PAKISTAN GET IMF BAILOUT WITH SECRET ARMS DEAL FOR UKRAINE, LEAKED DOCUMENTS REVEAL. Biden’s Whoppers at UN on Ukraine Burger King worthy.
- Saudi Arabia Says It Will Get Nuclear Weapon If…
- Antony Blinken wary on Iran, doesn’t criticise Saudi Arabia. Netanyahu at UN issues ‘nuclear’ threat to Iran, later retracted. Foundation for the Defense of Democracy and The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center urge Biden against helping Saudi Arabia to enrich uranium.
- Pakistan’s new nuclear brinkmanship.
- Nearly 10 million Ukrainians have fled to EU.
- United Nations Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty Continues to Gather Strength.
- Why Japan should stop its Fukushima nuclear wastewater ocean release.
SAFETY. Possibly contaminated iron scraps from near Fukushima plant sold
SECRETS and LIES. This War Wasn’t Just Provoked — It Was Provoked Deliberately. New York Times exposes Zelensky lie about Donbass missile strike. US government and media lying about Ukrainian counteroffensive – Seymour Hersh. Canadian parliament and its visitor Zelensky applaud Nazi Waffen SS veteran (VIDEO).
WASTES. South Korea will expand the number of spots for water testing amid concerns over the release of nuclear waste from Japan’s crippled Fukushima power plant. China not invited to participate in nuclear water testing – Chinese embassy in Japan.
WAR and CONFLICT. The President’s Power To Launch Nuclear Weapons Highlights A Troubling Paradox In U.S. Strategy. ‘Biden’s phase’ of Ukraine war is beginning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KIqR3ORYLE Cannon Fodder: Number of Ukrainian Amputee Soldiers Going Through the Roof. NATO Chief Admits NATO Expansion Was Key to Russian Invasion of Ukraine. Is World War III About to Start? Part I: Drift Toward War.
WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. Pentagon exempts Ukraine operations from potential government shutdown. The risk that nuclear weapons could be used is tremendous – Finnish President on war in Ukraine. White House Close To Providing Kiev With Cluster-Armed ATACMS. Ukraine could get long-range missiles armed with U.S. cluster bombs. Poland Says It’s No Longer Arming Ukraine Amid Grain Spat.
Russia shows N Korea’s Kim hypersonic missiles, nuclear-capable bombers. Maintaining the USA nuclear arsenal, at $750 billion over the next decade. Yes, nuclear weapons are immoral. They’re also, practically speaking, useless. Okinawa Disproves The US Narrative About Overseas Bases.
TODAY. Wonderful nuclear submarines!! Let’s not spoil the joy by thinking about their WASTES
Well, nobody knows what to do with them, you see. So the supposedly brilliant men who run the world have us convinced that we need nuclear submarines – to defend ourselves. But how are we going to defend ourselves from the thousands’ year toxicity of their ionising radiation?
The picture above gives a hint of the problem of nuclear submarine wastes on Russia’s Kola Peninsula. For 35 years, highly radioactive fuel assemblies have been stored in these rusty, partly destroyed steel pipes. Some 22,000 spent fuel assemblies are stored in the tanks, coming from 90-100 reactor cores powering the Soviet Navy’s Cold War submarines – about two times the amount of fissile material inside the exploded Chernobyl reactor in Ukraine.
Well – that’s the naughty Russians, isn’t it? So international countries, led by Norway, had to pay $billions to try to clean up their mess, which endangers Europe.
But surely the West is fine in their submarine waste management?
Throughout the Cold War, the Soviet Union and the United States built more than 400 nuclear submarines. Nuclear wastes from US submarines are also currently held in temporary storage, after 30 years and $7 billion, without arriving at a permanent storage solution. Britain has a number of dead nuclear submarines – but nowhere to put their wastes.
And that’s not counting the sunken nuclear submarines that continue to pollute the oceans with radiation
But let’s not worry , because the brilliant men are enthusing us about NEW nuclear submarines. And, after all, these heroes will probably be dead and gone when the radioactive shit hits the fan, whether by accident, or by the slow poisoning of future generations.
And anyway, Rafael Grossi has us convinced that releasing radioactive water into the seas is just fine.
Nuclear news this week – (miles too long)
Some bits of good news. Why tackling biodiversity loss could solve the climate crisis. A believed-extinct butterfly flitted back to the Scottish hills
TOP STORIES. Chris Hedges: Craig Murray on the ‘Slow Motion Execution’ of Assange. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x9Bltb7ZYE
Nuclear submarines challenge trains 10 year old children for war. The Discharge of Fukushima’s Radioactive Water could be a Precedent for Similar Actions.
Hyping Ukraine Counteroffensive, US Press Chose Propaganda Over Journalism.
What is the Digital Prison?
Climate. Global stocktake UN urges radical changes in climate policy plans at Cop28. Fossil fuel industries have captured global UN negotiations on climate change. Antarctic sea-ice at ‘mind-blowing’ low alarms experts.
Christina notes. Blatant hypocrisy and lies from Rafael Grossi and the International Atomic Energy Agency. Digital confusion.
AUSTRALIA.
- 63 Members of Parliament call on US to free Assange.
- The normalisation of nuclear power and militarism in our schools.
- Eating the three-eyed fish: where is Australia on nuclear wastewater in the Pacific? Protesters call on Labor to protest Fukushima nuclear waste dumping.
- Two years after AUKUS announcement, American politicians are divided on delivery of submarines to Australia.
- Peter Dutton wants Australia to jump on the VERY UNECONOMIC “nuclear train”. ”. Replacing Australia’s retiring coal power stations with small nuclear reactors could cost $387bn, analysis suggests.
- Nuclear energy remains weapon of choice for climate deniers and coal lobby.
- Sovereignty mocked in the ‘proxy war’ in Ukraine.
- Waste site: Govt reveals bill for dumped Kimba nuclear facility.
- Big batteries and solar push new boundaries on the grid
ART and CULTURE. Nuclear Free Local Authorities back councillor’s call to preserve bunker as museum to folly of nuclear war.
CLIMATE. Don’t underestimate ravages of climate crisis when storing nuclear waste. Kings Bay nuclear submarine hub dodged a bullet named Hurricane Idalia.
ECONOMICS. A new French fairy tale: “Cheap” nuclear electricity in France is not what it appears. Marketing. Top candidate for head of European Investment Bank cautions about defense, nuclear investments. USA can’t get investors for Small Nuclear Reactors: no problem – flog them off to Ghana! ‘War Is Good for Business,’ Declares Executive at London’s Global Arms Fair.
EMPLOYMENT. 1000 Sellafield Ltd. contractors to be balloted for strike by Unite.
ENERGY. Ukraine plans up to 1GW wind farm in Chernobyl nuclear disaster zone. Endless energy use needed for endless data storage – so, small nuclear reactors for Sweden. Windfarm bid withdrawn after Ministry of Defence raises nuclear testing station concerns. Solar energy boost for France. Renewables boost in Germany: turning the corner after a bad year?
ENVIRONMENT. Earth ‘well outside safe operating space for humanity’, scientists find. Radioactive discharge from Fukushima nuclear plant raising concerns on California coast.
ETHICS and Religion If The US Really Was What It Pretends To Be. “A world free from nuclear weapons is possible”. The US Air Force Is Clearing Out Jungles In The Pacific To Prepare For War With China.
HUMAN RIGHTS. JULIAN ASSANGE AND THE END OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY.
INDIGENOUS ISSUES. British activists join Nuclear Free Local Authorities in supporting Swedish Sami against uranium mining. Uranium Mining Protections Needed Across the West. Forced removal of Chagos islanders gave the US a nuclear base and the UK a deal on nuclear weapons.
LEGAL. French nuclear cartel fined €31m. Small island nations take high-emitting countries to court to protect the ocean.
MEDIA. Fukushima’s nuclear waste: Stigmatising Russia, approving Japan.
NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY. Small modular nuclear reactors for Ukraine (safe?)
OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Peace boat’s message is clear: Golden Rule mission urges support for nuclear ban treaty. Activists want California nuclear reactor closed over safety concerns
POLITICS.
- The U.K.’s Goldilocks Moment For Nuclear Power. Huge nuclear lobbying aimed at British Parliament . Sunak gives China green light to build UK nuclear plants despite nation being ‘threat to our way of life’. Nuclear Free Local Authorities’ plea to new Energy Secretary: ‘Don’t make Sizewell C Suffolk’s nightmare.’
- Germany advises against nuclear power in Uganda.
- Israel’s nuclear commission head refuses to side by High Court – in the case of a constitutional crisis
- Public Need Versus the Business of War.
- 50 US Lawmakers Reintroduce ‘CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act’ to Protect ‘the American Way of Life’.
POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.
- Germany’s Scholz: Fresh nuclear disarmament talks should include China.
- Guam residents inch closer to compensation for US nuclear testing.
- How the ‘nuclear football’ remains a potent symbol of the unthinkable.
- US incapable of negotiating – Russian diplomat. Ukraine joining NATO ‘would not promote peace’ – ex-French president. Zelensky Implies Ukrainian Refugees in Europe Will Resort to Terrorism If West Curtails Aid.
- Congress should seek ‘poison pills’ for any US-Saudi nuclear agreement.
PUBLIC OPINION. A push-back against Western influence is reportedly prompting countries to reject the pro-Ukraine agenda.
RELIGION. Kiev orders closure of Christian churches
SAFETY.
- Why this Ukrainian nuclear plant is now on brink of a ‘Fukushima’ disaster.
- Safety fears : the problem of Britain’s ageing nuclear submarines. Nuclear Free Local Authorities concerned over safety risks regarding nuclear-armed U.S. base planned for RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk.
- Are They Already Cutting Corners on Worker Protection at DOE’s New Plutonium Processing Plant? Environmental groups urge regulators to shut down California reactor over safety, testing concerns. Cracks at V.C. Summer nuclear plant raise concern from federal regulators.
- Risk assessment and the nuclear cultists.
- UN Nuclear Watchdog Risks Running Out of Money on US, China Standoff. UN nuclear agency slams Iran for barring inspectors from monitoring program.
- A nuclear bomb is still missing after it was dropped off the Georgia coastline 65 years ago.
- Japan to start old nuclear reactor checks in October. Incidents. Radioactive material leaks detected at Japan’s plutonium nuclear fuel research facility’.
SECRETS and LIES.
- Blinken, Assange, And The 20th Anniversary Of The Palestine Hotel Bombing.
- SNC Lavalin changing its name to AtkinsRéalis in effort to shed parts of its past. From the archives: Crooked Canadian company Lavalin trying to sell ?zombie nuclear technology to China and UK.
- IAEA sees no problem with depleted uranium weaponry – Grossi.
- Antony Blinken mouths complacent lies: “very confident in Ukraine’s ultimate success”.
- The UK Government Knows How Extreme the Online Safety Bill Is. G20 Announces Plan To Impose Digital Currencies And IDs Worldwide. Elon Musk’s X venture – leading us into a digital prison?
- Ex-Ukrainian president pictured wearing Nazi symbol (PHOTOS). Ukrainians blame Zelensky for corruption – poll.
SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. Pentagon’s new plan to counter China includes swarms of smart satellites. 7 October – 14 October KEEP SPACE FOR PEACE WEEK.
SPINBUSTER. Blinken: US Does Not Oppose Ukrainian Attacks Inside Russia With US-Supplied Missiles.
WASTES. Decommissioning. September 14, 2023: Dounreay decommissioning end date that proved to be unachievable.
WAR and CONFLICT. NATO’s Steadfast Defender Drills Near Russia Signal Bloc’s Shift to ‘War Footing’, Pentagon blames Russian e-warfare for failed Ukraine counteroffensive.
WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES.
- Banish Nuclear Weapons ‘to History Books, Once and for All’, Urges Secretary-General, Marking International Day.
- With long-range missiles for Ukraine, US crosses own red line.
- Pakistan nuclear weapons, 2023. Pakistan has 170 nuclear warheads, and may increase it to 200 by 2025, say American atomic scientists.
- Zelensky Issues Veiled Threat To Destabilize Europe If Weapons Flow Curtailed.
- Making Britain a target for nuclear retaliation.
- US to Shift Some Military Aid from Egypt to Taiwan.
WOMEN. Women with medical education to be banned from leaving Ukraine and forced to sign up for military service – Kyiv Post.
The week in nuclear news
Park in Beijing April 2023
Some bits of good news. Chinese people are living two years longer thanks to ‘war on pollution,’ report says. From Blacktop to Green: Cities Are Depaving for a Cooler Future.
TOP STORIES.
- What’s Behind Talk of a Possible Plea Deal for Assange?
- Crew sailing ‘original peace boat’ reflect on mission to promote end of nuclear weapons.
- Revisiting John Pilger’s 2016 Warnings About US Warmongering Against Russia And China.
- Ukraine’s defeat could mean the end of NATO in its current form.
- Biden’s horse-trading on nuclear technology and fuels is an unprecedented proliferation risk.
- Taiwan’s ‘clear and present’ spent nuclear fuel danger.
Climate. World meteorologists point to ‘vicious cycle’ of heatwaves and air pollution.
Christina notes. Social media is becoming more influential, while corporate media is more than ever in the grip of powerful government and business interests. Trying to make the best use of Substack. Continuing through the maze of social media. About how to use Substack – (I recommend reading their instructions). The labyrinth of social media – The promise and the pitfalls.
AUSTRALIA. Educating the US Imperium: Australia’s Mission for Assange. Lifetime War Abolisher of 2023 award to David Bradbury. Nuclear shift and net zero feud stir Nationals’ leadership tensions. Australia’s Navy Pursues Nuclear Submarines and AI-Powered Ghost Sharks.
ARTS and CULTURE. Exhibition for nuclear-free world opens online.
CLIMATE. The Bugey and Saint-Alban sites could reduce their production due to the heat. The Pentagon is the Elephant In the Climate Activist Room.
ECONOMICS. Today Hinkley C contract would cost £180 per MWh around 3xs the cost of offshore wind. “A Good Investment”: The Ukraine War and the US Arms Racket
EMPLOYMENT. Unite urges employer to pay a fair wage and avoid nuclear plant shutdown. Health and safety concerns raised with Dounreay management.
ENERGY. How a nuclear disaster spurred Fukushima to become a renewables leader. Could new nuclear kill one of the world’s most promising offshore windmarkets?
ENVIRONMENT. Disproportionately High Contributions of 60 Year Old Weapons-137Cs Explain the Persistence of Radioactive Contamination in Bavarian Wild Boars.
ETHICS and RELIGION. Senators brag that only Ukrainians die in US proxy war against Russia. Act, or die: the climate and nuclear juggernaut. The Four Billionaires Who Want to Control the Universe. If Everyone Understood That The US Deliberately Provoked This War. Japan’s Insane Immoral, Illegal Radioactive Dumping.
HEALTH. Radiation. Important new British Medical Journal article increases our perception of radiation risks.
INDIGENOUS ISSUES. Nuclear Waste Dump Threatens Kichi Sìbì (Ottawa River). The deep roots of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste fight — and why it continues to this day.
LEGAL. RADIOACTIVE TSUNAMIS: NUCLEAR TORPEDO DRONES AND THEIR LEGALITY IN WAR. Japan’s nuclear-contaminated water discharge should consider hazard accountability and compensation mechanisms. Vinci and Bouygues among six firms fined €31m for bid rigging in nuclear work. Residents file suit to halt wastewater release from Fukushima plant.
MEDIA. US Intelligence Official: Media Misleading Americans About Ukraine’s Battlefield Success.
PERSONAL STORIES. Ukrainian POWs Say Families of Dead Denied Compensation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn_671tZmLQ
POLITICS. Illinois legislators have a lot to learn about nuclear power. Nuclear energy touted at West Virginia Chamber forum, but key cost, oversight and waste management questions linger. Oregon hasn’t said never to nuclear power, but it should.
Guam nuclear energy ban focus of hearing. Japan announces emergency relief for seafood exporters hit by China’s ban over Fukushima water. Public opinion. USA & NATO responsible for Ukraine war, German & French public say in poll. Ukrainian Dissident Resists NATO’s Proxy War.
POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.
- Ukraine war: Kyiv denounces G20 declaration.
- Poland begins to extradite to Ukraine men who left it after February 24, 2022.
- Germany, Italy highlight growing European nuclear divide. Eastern European NATO Countries Fear Peace Talks Between Ukraine and Russia. Fyodor Lukyanov: Why the ‘world majority’ sees the Ukraine conflict as an example of declining European and North American power.
- Why Swiss Neutrality is essential for American national security.
- The West’s blueprint for goading China was laid out in Ukraine.
PROTESTS. South Korea: Mass protests continue against Fukushima nuclear waste dumping.
SAFETY. IAEA warns of nuclear safety threat as combat spikes near Ukraine power plant. Ukraine war realises predictions of nuclear power plant threat, says Leicester civil safety expert. Nuclear reactors: Malaysia lacks maintenance culture. Generators of Kudangulam nuclear power plant stuck in sea.
SECRETS and LIES. Russian hackers suspected to have leaked sensitive UK military and defence material on the dark web including information about nuclear submarine base and chemical weapons lab. Ukraine wasted $17 million on faulty drones – media.
URANIUM. Does Europe need Niger’s uranium?
WASTES. UK and Japan’s governments funding research on problem of nuclear waste. Plutonium. UK / ‘No Easy Options’ For Disposal Of Plutonium Stockpile, Says Report
WAR and CONFLICT. America is not worried about the huge losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine . Nation-States as “Business Models”: Ukraine as Another Neoliberal Privatization Exercise. Scott Ritter: A comprehensive Ukrainian defeat is the only possible outcome of its conflict with Russia. NATO isn’t able to help Ukraine win. Ukraine – health care women compulsory military service. Counter-offensive threatened by slow Western aid – Zelenskyy.
NATO Chief Openly Admits Russia Invaded Ukraine Because Of NATO Expansion. Slow mindless grind towards nuclear Armageddon?
WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES.
- Saudi Arabia could build a nuclear bomb, experts say – and the US might help it.
- US to Arm Ukraine With Toxic Depleted Uranium Ammunition. Depleted Uranium Won’t Bring Peace to Ukraine. Russia says US supplying depleted-uranium shells to Ukraine could lead to war between nuclear powers. Ukraine used cluster munitions against civilians – Human Rights Watch.
- 22 Years of Drone Warfare and No End in Sight.
- Ukraine’s ‘Biggest Arms Supplier’ Orchestrated 2014 Maidan Massacre, Witnesses Say. Is Ukraine’s new long-range missile technology bringing us closer to WW3?
- Russia warns return of US nuclear weapons to UK would be seen as escalation.
- Senators raise concerns over US missing nuclear submarine target.
- US Air Force tests nuclear-capable long-range missile.
to 4th September – nuclear news this week
Some bits of good news. How UNESCO is supporting Afghan girls and women with literacy classes. Wind-powered shipping is back as a quiet revolution sweeps the seas. Plant-based filter removes up to 99.9% of microplastics from water.
TOP STORIES.
Australian Teachers in boycott of nuclear submarine project.
US Victim of Own Propaganda in Ukraine War. Sen. Blumenthal: US Getting Its ‘Money’s Worth’ in Ukraine Because Americans Aren’t Dying. Nuclear “lobbying” blurs into bribery
Climate. The extreme summer weather that scorched and soaked the world.
Nuclear and war. Over the years, I have been surprised, and encouraged, at the interest that people have shown in stories about ETHICS. Some pretty shocking stories about Ethics have come up this week – the number of influential politicians and journalists who actually rejoice in the carnage of the Ukraine war – because it’s all making money for American shareholders while cleverly organised not to risk any American lives – only Ukrainian ones – who apparently don’t matter.
AUSTRALIA. Only Idiots Believe The US Is Protecting Australia From China. Challenging Australia’s blind allegiance to USA against China.
Nuclear power is no alternative. Australian Financial Review gets it not quite right about why nuclear power is the wrong solution. ‘Big question-mark over new nuclear’: German utility CEO. NUCLEAR WASTE – PLANNING RESPONSIBLY FOR THE FUTURE. Allowing Tassie to host nuclear vessels would make state a ‘target’: Woodruff.
CLIMATE. Chinese government acknowledges problems for nuclear power due to climate change.
ECONOMICS.
- Nuclear discharge leading tourists to rethink travel plans.
- US Doubles Imports of Russian Uranium to Largest Amount Since 2005.
- Nuclear is the new green – (Really?)
- Tax-payer funding to develop small nuclear reactor business? Easy, get Defense and the Air Force to buy them. New small nuclear reactor company merges with a dubious ‘special purpose acquisition’ company, -reactors for use by USA Air Force in Alaska.
- UK government announces a further £341m to speed up Sizewell C development.
- Georgia Power customers could see monthly bills rise to pay for the Vogtle nuclear plant.
- New Brunswick Power has its head stuck in uranium.
ENERGY. The UK Government’s seventh Energy Secretary in the space of four years has “a huge amount of catching up to do” to kickstart a renewables revolution. Focus on renewables, not nuclear, to fuel Canada’s electric needs
ENVIRONMENT. Radiation. Fukushima floodgates: dilution of the wastewater will not alter the total amount of radionuclides released. Brink of catastrophe: Japan as Pacific polluter. The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Still Casts a Shadow Over Japan. We are all Hibakusha- the global footprint of nuclear fallout.
Nuclear weapons testing cause of radioactivity in wild boars, study says.
ETHICS and RELIGION. US Officials Keep Boasting About How Much The Ukraine War Serves US Interests. Rocket-Launching Billionaires Promise a New Pie in the Sky. Archbishop Caccia recalls harm done by nuclear energy.
LEGAL. Federal appeals court blocks plan to ship nuclear waste to West Texas. Top prosecutors back compensation for those sickened by US nuclear weapons testing.
MEDIA. Why is The New York Times Burning Peace Activist Jodie Evans at the Stake? Critics Picked Up on Oppenheimer’s All-Too-Timely Warning on Nuclear War. ‘Then the black rain fell’: survivor’s recollections of Hiroshima inspire new film.
NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY. Hinkley Point C Nuclear Station will need daily 4,200 Olympic swimming pools’ amount of cooling water.
OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . A bottomless pit of public money for the UK government’s nuclear vanity project. ‘Unrealistic and irrational’: Government announces Sizewell C nuclear station £341m speed-up despite local backlash in Suffolk. Anger over claims RAF Lakenheath could host US nuclear weapons.
POLITICS. An Argument for the Relevance of RFK, Jr. ‘Peaceful Atom’ Sparks Fierce Debate In Kazakh Village Slated To Host Nuclear Power Plant. German Chancellor Scholz speaks out against new nuclear power, Deutschlandfunk reports. Chancellor Scholz dismisses talk of keeping nuclear energy option open in Germany.
UK Government’s investment in Sizewell C nuclear plant passes £1bn. Money thrown at Sizewell C to win hearts and minds.. South Koreans worry about Fukushima water: more disapprove of President Yoon. Peace a winning strategy for Democrats in ‘24.
POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.
- There should be no Saudi uranium enrichment. Saudi Arabia’s Nuclear Ambitions Have Put The U.S. Into A Bind.
- Young Vietnamese Diplomat, Lê Nguyen An Khanh, Envisions Nuclear-Free World.
- Rush to accept Ukraine into EU could spell ‘disaster’ – Austrian FM. Ukraine war: how China can get the world to step back from nuclear Armageddon.
- China Outlines ‘Obstacles’ to Resuming High-Level Military Talks With U.S.
- The State of Nuclear Instability in South Asia: India, Pakistan, and China.
SAFETY. Atomic Blackmail: Ukraine war realises predictions of nuclear power plant threat, says Leicester civil safety expert. Over 100 security incidents at UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) nuclear weapons body. USA Nuclear Regulatory Commission ready to remove “barriers” so as to speed up licensing of new untested nuclear reactors.
WASTES. Germany facing up to its nuclear waste problem.
WAR and CONFLICT. Ukraine’s army is running out of men to recruit, and time to win. Ukraine conflict may be lengthy – Canadian PM. The Economist says West enables Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian civilian targets. NATO’s ‘proxy war’ blues: How the US-led campaign to use Ukraine to ‘cripple’ Russia has failed.
Report: US, Israel to Conduct Joint Drills Simulating Attacks on Iran. Living on a War Planet.
WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES.
- Kazakhstan’s 40-Year History of Nuclear Testing: Call to Action for Nonproliferation Education.
- Vivek Ramaswamy: Cut funding for Ukraine or face ‘post-Zelensky warlord’. Why Ukraine’s Western backers are happy to feed Zelensky’s fantasies about American F-16s. Russia puts advanced Sarmat nuclear missile system on ‘combat duty’. Ukraine war: the implications of Moscow moving tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus.
- US fighter jets capable of nuclear bombing to be based in UK.
- North Korea says it has simulated a nuclear missile attack to warn US of ‘nuclear war danger’.
Week to 28 August – nuclear news
A bit of good news. Welcome to the world’s first zero-waste island. Ecuador voted to just stop oil.
TOP STORIES
At Fukushima Daiichi, decommissioning the nuclear plant is far more challenging than water release. Fukushima waste-water decision disregards scientific evidence, violates the human rights of Pacific region communities.
Lauding Lise Meitner, Who Said ‘No’ to the Atomic Bomb. #StepUp4Disarmament on International Day against Nuclear Tests. NASA joins the lunatic fringe. Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule
Ukraine Providing an Important Testing Ground For Space-Based Weapons. Sustainability has lost its meaning as the nuclear lobby triumphs.
Climate. Why Scotland must get real on climate crisis: The time has passed for protecting the public from reality. China’s summer of climate destruction.
Nuclear. I felt a bit desperate, watching all the rejoicing about India sending a rocket to the moon. Don’t people realise that all this space research, (at tax-payers’ expense) is geared towards weaponry in space? Another upsetting news item today – intrepid journalist Ronan Farrow, in a terribly long article, explores and exposes the powerful influence of Elon Musk over the American government. It is a scary thought.
Christina notes. The nuclear lobby is gearing up for a takeover of COP 28.
AUSTRALIA. Rex Patrick demolishes Richard Marles’ slick lies about AUKUS and the nuclear submarines. All the way with Anthony A – Labor locks in AUKUS support despite union opposition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MlVW8qJ-TEACHERS ACT AGAINST SCHOOLS NUCLEAR SUBS PROGRAM.
Green light for nuclear ships, submarines in Tasmanian port. South-east Australia marine heatwave forecast to be literally off the scale.
Coalition’s campaign for nuclear energy implausible, experts say. Ontario nuclear model may not suit Australia. Australian Financial Review’s sloppy journalism makes a nonsense of its case for nuclear SMRs.
ARTS and CULTURE. What ‘Downwinders inherited at Trinity.
CLIMATE. EDF Warns of French Nuclear Output Cuts in Weekend Heat Wave. France issues ‘red alert‘ over heatwave in south. France heatwave curbs cooling water supply to St Alban nuclear plant.
ECONOMICS. French Winter Power Twice as Pricey as Germany’s on Nuclear Woes. Georgia’s new nuclear reactors a cautionary tale. Why the US and Europe Still Buy Russian Nuclear Fuel.
China bans Japanese seafood after Fukushima wastewater release.
ENERGY Degrowthers Gain Support as Planet Cooks. Power-starved North Korea turns to solar energy to keep the lights on. French energy regulator: Nuclear alone not enough for carbon neutrality
ENVIRONMENT. Japanese fishing industry leader is “greatly concerned” over the pending disharge of Fukushima radioactive water into the ocean. Japan’s nuclear wastewater – should we be worried?. ‘Animals could become MUTATED’ from the 1.3 million tons of radioactive waste dumped from Japan’s nuclear power plant in the Pacific. Endless fallout: the Pacific idyll still facing nuclear blight 77 years on. Marshall Islands sea turtle found to have nuclear contamination.
Hinkley Point C: Millions of fish under threat after permit change.
Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety Urges State Legislature to Protect the Española Aquifer from LANL Pollutants.
ETHICS and RELIGION. Nuclear deterrence is a dangerous fraud . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH6xkjMNdnk&t=116s
HEALTH. Exposure to Low-Dose Ionizing Radiation Linked to Solid Cancer Mortality.
LEGAL. Texas nuclear waste storage permit invalidated by US appeals court.
MEDIA. Chicago Tribune should support Vivec Ramasramy’s call for end to perpetual war in Ukraine
NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY. The ageing nuclear reactors. How to keep them going for decades, (best to forget coming climate extremes). On the warpath: AI’s role in the defence industry.
OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Fukushima: What are the concerns over waste water release? For the sake of Suffolk, Nuclear Free Local Authorities urge Centrica to ‘Say Non to Sizewell C’. Calls for West Sussex to be made a nuclear free zone.
PERSONAL STORIES. Respect for hibakusha, and hope in younger generations
POLITICS. Much hype, enthusiasm, tax-payers’ largesse, for Britain’s “new nuclear”. (What could possibly go wrong?) The role of nuclear in the UK’s energy mix. Sizewell C project descends into farce. Kudankulam Nuclear plant will destroy Southern Tamil Nadu, warns Vaiko.
Senate extends nuclear liability-limiting law without public scrutiny. Here’s why we should care.
POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.
- China outraged at water release from wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant. Seafood war looms after Japan releases nuclear plant water.
- Bibi Isn’t Serious About Preventing a Regional Nuclear Arms Race. Saudi Arabia weighs nuclear power offers from China and France in bid to sway US. Israel will not agree to Saudi nuclear program: Netanyahu.
- UK financially props up Ukraine’s nuclear industry, while renewable sources there grow.
- The Last Time A Foreign Military Threat Was Placed Near The US Border, The World Almost Ended.
SAFETY. French nuclear watchdog ASN issues first lifespan extension to 40-year-old reactor. Cattenom nuclear plant reports ‘significant safety event‘.
SECRETS and LIES. Why we cannot trust the International Atomic Energy Agency.
SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. Threat from the skies: India steps up the fight against a major space danger.
WASTES. The Fukushima nuclear plant will start releasing treated wastewater. Here’s what you need to know.. Fukushima: wastewater from ruined nuclear plant to be released from Thursday, Japan says. Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station is still continuing to release radioactive materials. More nuclear challenges await Japan after Fukushima water release. More countries take actions to handle Japan’s nuclear-contaminated water dump, while US ‘double-standard exposed hypocrisy’.
North County Report: What’s the Deal with San Onofre’s Nuclear Power Plant? . Decommissioning. Dismantling of deactivated Fort Greely nuclear power plant to resume.
WAR and CONFLICT. US derides wimpy Ukrainians that have become ‘casualty adverse’. US and Ukraine ‘at odds’ over counteroffensive tactics – WSJ . Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Has Failed—It’s Time to Reevaluate.
Ukraine will ‘capitulate unconditionally’ – Scott Ritter. Zelensky Cracks Down on Draft Dodgers, Forces Men to Fight & Die in This War . German officials believe Ukraine destroyed Nord Stream – media. UN warns Ukraine over attacks on Russian civilian targets.
WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. Biden’s rival, Robert F. Kennedy Junior, labels F-16s for Ukraine ‘a disaster for humanity’. ‘Powerful’ Ukrainian brigade loses US-made demining vehicles – Forbes, (but plenty more available) US to reduce military aid to Ukraine in 2024 – WSJ.
End Nuclear testing Forever, Says Secretary-General in Message for International Day. Neocon Dark Money Front Launches Desperate Ad Blitz, as Support for Ukraine Forever War Craters. Japanese students urge end to nuclear weapons in 1st visit to U.N. Geneva in 4 years.
Week to 21st August – in nuclear news
A bit of good news. Montana Rules a Healthful Environment Is a Constitutional Right.
TOP STORIES
Nuclear Power Plants as Targets of War — A New Worry?.
Ukraine likely to fail in key counteroffensive aim, says US intelligence. Amid ‘staggering’ Ukrainian toll and souring US polls, Biden seeks billions more for war. Why the Glut of ‘Wonder Weapons’ to Ukraine Won’t Make a Difference.
Huge study of nuclear workers in France, the United Kingdom, and the United States confirms low dose radiation as a cause of cancer. Risk of cancer death after exposure to low-dose ionizing radiation underestimated, suggests nuclear industry study.
Climate. Climate Scientists warn nature’s ‘anaesthetics’ have worn off, now arth is feeling the pain, as ocean heating hits record.
Nuclear. You’d think that the fact that the Ukraine ‘counter-offensive’ is stalling might induce a Western mindset more favorable to the idea of a negotiated end to the war. Not so -the US-NATO plan is for more, and more lethal weapons. It might even put off the idea of a war against China. But no -and sadly, in Australia the mood among the “top people” is all for throwing $billions at preparing for the China war. (The bottom people aren’t consulted)
Christina notes. Bribery and Blackmail: these are the tools for continuing success of the nuclear industry. Perfecting “planned obsolescence” – how the USA and its allies’ taxpayers are locked into perpetual buying of useless weapons.
AUSTRALIA.
- Assange Be Weary: The Dangers of a US Plea Deal. For What Crime? – Good Journalism?. An Assange Plea Deal? A profound change’: AUKUS debate looms for Labor’s rank and file.
- So much Labor hope is riding on an empty vessel. Albanese defends against attempt to strike nuclear submarines out of Labor platform. AUKUS a cover for the Coalition’s nuclear power agenda. ‘Unbelievable’: Defence spends $8.5m on consultants for AUKUS nuclear regulator. The Australian Government, especially Defence Minister Richard Marles, move to squash Labor Party dissent about AUKUS and nuclear submarines.
- Why the Coalition backs nuclear. Stop renewables and wait for nuclear: Nationals stunning rejection of science and industry. Gina Rinehart: Australia’s wealthiest person uses Bush Summit speech to push for nuclear power.
- Game changer: defence industry ‘revolving door’ database to be created.
CLIMATE. The nuclear icebreakers enabling drilling in Russia’s Arctic .
ECONOMICS.
- How the “Nuclear Renaissance” Robs and Roasts Our Earth. Nuclear power plants will mortgage all future generations, says expert.
- Japan’s controversial nuclear waste water plan could impact the UK’s decarbonisation agenda.
- US tightens export controls of nuclear power items to China.
- The nuclear industry needs to show it can deliver economically viable big reactors in time and on budget.
- Finland’s OL2 nuclear reactor off grid; power prices rise.
ENERGY. US climate law introduces billion-dollar ‘game-changer’ for nonprofits.
ENVIRONMENT. Anger as Hinkley Point C allowed to discharge sewage into Bristol Channel and drop fish protection.
ETHICS and RELIGION. The Oppenheimer Imperative: Normalising Atomic Terror. Japanese and US Bishops pledge partnership for a nuclear-free world. Poisoning the planet. Big Brave Western Proxy Warriors Keep Whining That Ukrainian Troops Are Cowards.
HEALTH. Japan mothers’ group fears Fukushima water release could revive health concerns.
LEGAL. Marshall Islands reacts to US expansion of nuclear compensation.
MEDIA. The Connection between Oppenheimer and Gentilly-2: Edward Teller and the H bomb
NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY. Risks of further delays at Hinkley Point C, EDF warns. Even the UK’s very first small nuclear reactor could could not be decided upon until 2029 . Nuclear Fusion: Energy Breakthrough or Ballyhoo?.
OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . South Korea’s opposition party to file UN complaint against Japan over nuclear waste .
PERSONAL STORIES. The Financial Legacy of the Nuclear Tests on Bikini Atoll/
POLITICS.
- Biden should promote peace over war in Ukraine for 2 good reasons.
- Pritzker was right to keep moratorium on new Illinois nuclear plants.
- New York governor blocks discharge of radioactive water into Hudson River from closed nuclear plant.
- Zelensky holds court with Ukraine’s most notorious neo-Nazi.
- UK ‘s Minister for Nuclear and Networks very upbeat about nuclear energy’s future.
- OPPENHEIMER AUTHOR ENDORSES NORTON BILL – Nuclear Abolition and Conversion Act, H.R. 2775 .
POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.
- NATO Official Suggests Ukraine Could Cede Territory to Russia to Join Alliance. Lukashenko shares thoughts on future of Ukraine.
- Iran says it is committed to resolving nuclear dispute through diplomacy.
- Tussle in Europe as France succeeds in getting nuclear energy accepted\ as a ‘”transitional” technology for EU’s green taxonomy .
- Fukushima water release poses test for Japan-South Korea unity.
- France and Russia co-operate on developing a plant in Russia for processing depleted uranium . French cruise ship makes rendezvous with Russian nuclear icebreaker near North Pole.
- Austria cautions against nuclear power in the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
PROTESTS. Gwynedd anti-nuclear march ‘sent powerful message’. Japanese citizens’ group protests nuclear discharge.
SAFETY.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Risky Rule Change Ignores History. More Nuclear Emergency Planning Needed, Not Less.
Power-Line Cut Raises Alarm Over Russian-Held Nuclear Plant In Ukraine, But Expert Says Little Has Changed. Russia And Ukraine Trade Blame Over Outages At Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Plant.
SECRETS and LIES. Most ‘experts’ pushing for endless conflict in Ukraine share a common benefactor.
WASTES. Japan’s nuclear plants are short of storage for spent fuel. A remote town could have the solution.
WAR and CONFLICT. Ralph Nader: Develop an Exit Strategy for the Endless War in Ukraine. The Inevitable Defeat: Retired US Colonel Speaks Candidly On Ukraine’s Losing Battle Against Russia. Back in another quagmire – in Biden’s relentless “Big Muddy” of Ukraine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXnJVkEX8O4 US, Finland Negotiating Defense Agreement That Would See Deployment of American Troops.
Niger is Far From a Typical Coup.
WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES.
- Lethal weapons to Ukraine – endless war prioritised over diplomacy: Address to United Nations Security Council. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS44mvuo7Ow Germany will ‘never’ place troops in Ukraine – Scholz.
- Over Budget and Delayed—What’s Next for U.S. Nuclear Weapons Research and Production Projects? The Pentagon Is Spending $1 Billion a Year on ‘Directed Energy Weapons’.
- What Happened When the US Set Off Nuclear Weapons in One of the Most Geologically Active Places on Earth?
This week in nuclear news
Some bits of good news: For Outdoor Workers, Learning About Heat Protection Is a Lifesaver. Climate leaders on what brings them hope. A rare monkey came back from the brink.
TOP STORIES
Atomic Bombing of Japan Was Not Necessary to End WWII. US Gov’t Documents Admit It. Racism and the choice to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
US/France Threaten Intervention in Resource-Rich Niger: Fears of War in West Africa.
Counting the dead at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The terrible emptiness of “Oppenheimer”.
Climate, July was world’s hottest month on record, climate scientists confirm. Four fifths of humanity ‘hit by heat linked to climate change’ in July.
Virtually certain’ extreme Antarctic events will get worse without drastic action, scientists warn. Antarctica ‘suffering’ because of burning fossil fuels, say scientists. Antarctica could become ‘global radiator’ if ice loss continues at the current rate .
Nuclear. “Oppenheimer” continues to make its impact. The USA pulls quite a swiftie on Australia. as the AUKUS ‘Security’ deal quietly organises for American nuclear submarine’s highly toxic radioactive wastes to be dumped on Australia, (just as Aboriginal group has won a legal battle against nuclear waste dumping). Racism is becoming a more obvious feature of the nuclear industry worldwide.
Christina notes. The “modern” nuclear industry manages its radioactive sewage in a medieval way. The Australian Labor Party embraces militarism– has it lost its soul?
AUSTRALIA.
- Suggestions that Julian Assange might be returned to Australia, with a “plea deal”.
- Melissa Parke to spearhead International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, as Oppenheimer thrusts issue into spotlight.
- Marcus Strom: AUKUS is a mad, bad and dangerous war policy, Labor Against War.
- The US grip on Australia keeps tightening. Can we break free and avoid war?
- Yes in my backyard: Nationals happy to go nuclear. The Coalition’s likely embrace of nuclear energy is high-risk politics. Why the nuclear option is clever in opposition but a nightmare in government. Coalition’s aim for nuclear energy criticised by the Australian government. How will they explain themselves to their grandchildren?
- Nuclear waste dump plans scrapped for South Australia. Barngarla’s voice is heard as the Federal Government abandons Kimba nuclear waste dump. Australia’s peak environmental body welcomes ‘king hit’ for nuclear waste dump at Kimba. Government abandons plan to dump nuclear waste near Kimba, sparking new hunt for dump site.
CLIMATE. Is it “Hello” or “Goodbye” to Great British Nuclear Power?
CIVIL LIBERTIES. McCarthyism Is Back, and It’s Coming for the Peace Movement.
ECONOMICS.
- How the “Nuclear Renaissance” Robs and Roasts Our Earth.
- Uranium profits in Niger. France is grabbing it all.
- War is a Racket… U.S. and NATO Arms Industries Make Record $400 BILLION in Sales from Proxy War With Russia. Ukraine biggest recipient of US aid since WWII – Washington Post. Biden to ask congress for an additional $13 billion for Ukraine – total aid given would soar to $113 billion.
- UK government backs Sizewell C nuclear, but their target investors are backing away.
- Nippon Life bans investments in nuclear arms firms, tobacco companies.
- Redundancies made as loss-making nuclear services firm sold for just £3 enters administration. Company involved in decommissioning of the Dounreay nuclear plant has gone into administration. Plush new building for UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) .
- Should You Sell Nuscale Power Corp (SMR) Stock Wednesday Morning? Small Nuclear Reactor (SMR) Stock Analysis Overview.
EDUCATION. United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) held a public youth pitch event “‘Peace & XX’ Ideation – Nuclear Disarmament and Sustainable Futures”
EMPLOYMENT. Hinkley nuclear site workers win after unofficial walkouts. Hinkley Point C unrest continues as steel erectors down tools.
ENERGY. TVA should focus on a better grid and renewable, not nuclear, energy .
ENVIRONMENT. Fish Hell – impacts of sea water nuclear cooling systems . Agency to test for tritium in fish after Fukushima water discharge,
ETHICS and RELIGION. ‘Oppenheimer’ depicts a man becoming powerful—and irrelevant. Nuclear weapons since Oppenheimer: Who’s in control?.
U.S. group marks 1945 atomic bombings, at interfaith service in Hiroshima, urges abolishing nuclear weapons and building better world. Sombre ceremony outside Manitoba Legislature illuminates push to eradicate nuclear weapons.
HEALTH. Reducing the risks of nuclear war — the role of health professionals. Medical Journals Issue Urgent Call for Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. Carcinogens found at Montana nuclear missile sites as reports of hundreds of cancers surface. Radiation. Additional information on tritium. Still more information about Tritium .
MEDIA. Nevada’s atomic fallout: How nuclear explosions in the Silver State reverberate through lives today. The Illusory Truth Effect And The “Unprovoked” Invasion Of Ukraine. YouTube Deletes military analyst Scott Ritter’s Channel. Famed director Oliver Stone gets it so very wrong about nuclear power .
NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY. Nuclear fusion – a step forward, but is it in a sensible direction? Small Modular reactors– a US view.
OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR .
- As Japan set to dump nuclear-contaminated wastewater in late August, Japanese nuclear expert vows to ‘fight it to the end’.
- Bringing the Pacific people together in solidarity to address nuclear legacy issues in the Pacific – Lesuma.
- #3DNukeMissile on Hiroshima/Nagasaki Days:A reminder of increased nuclear threats –And a call to the NPT Prep Com. Oppenheimer, Japan bombings put nuclear energy in a harsh light.
- Background to Proposed radioactive waste dump in Deep River -opposition from indigenous and non-indigenous groups. Proposed radioactive waste dump in Deep River met with opposition at final hearing.
- Welsh groups call on the National Eisteddfod to reject funding from USA nuclear and arms company Westinghouse.
POLITICS. Democracy Needs Healthy Debates About War And Peace. Poll Shows Majority of Americans Oppose Further Aid in Ukraine.
Biden vows to compensate New Mexico residents sickened by nuclear weapons radiation after 1945 testing. Illinois Gov. Pritzker vetoes bill that would have allowed new nuclear construction.
Sweden to clear obstacles for new nuclear reactors. Sweden criticised over plan to build at least 10 new nuclear reactors.
Public participation for the Flamanville EPR reactor commissioning project (INB 167). Philippines House panel OKs bill outlining nuclear damage compensation. Who decides whether Bataan should go nuclear?.
POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. As Threat Remerges, Global Community Must Speak as One, Commit to Nuclear-Free World, Secretary-General Says on Anniversary of Hiroshima Bombing. The BRICS Revolt: How Ukraine War Eroded U.S. Authority.
PROTESTS. Demonstrators protest development of nuclear weapons in Oak Ridge. Ten arrested at protest against nuclear weapons at Volkel airbase. Anti-nuclear protesters at Faslane charged after blocking entrance. In South Korea, activists march against Tokyo’s waste plan.
SAFETY. Dounreay inspectors raise further red flag about sodium storage. Ukrainian Minister Warns Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Plant ‘One Step Away’ From Blackout. Ukraine: Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant initiates reactor shutdown following water leak, reports IAEA. 2 minor earthquakes strike near North Korea’s nuclear test site.
SECRETS and LIES. Zelensky Fires All Military Enlistment Office Chiefs Over Corruption Allegations. Secret Pakistan cable documents US pressure to remove Imran Khan. Sweden’s “Energiforsk” should remove misleading reports on nuclear power”.
WASTES. Scottish ministers test attitudes to building radioactive waste facilities near homes. Hearing on the Chalk River Megadump . Theddlethorpe nuclear waste site: Public to vote by 2027.
Chinese UN mission releases working paper on Fukushima nuclear-contaminated wastewater issue, urging Japan to discharge in responsible manner. Concrete tomb filled with deadly nuclear waste is leaking as it’s starting to crack.
WAR and CONFLICT. Ukrainian counteroffensive ‘highly unlikely‘ to succeed, US officials tell CNN. Ukraine fights narrative battle as counteroffensive stalls – NBC. Zelensky fears peace pressure from West – NYT. Ukraine facing ‘difficult’ autumn – foreign minister. Poland admits Ukraine’s counteroffensive won’t succeed.
‘Oppenheimer’ the movie versus our nuclear reality. A warning from the Caribbean – none of us is safe from nuclear disaster. At Nagasaki Memorial, Guterres Cautions of Nuclear Disaster Risk .
WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. Rapid Dragon: the US military game-changer that could affect conventional and nuclear strategy and arms control negotiations. We don’t need nuclear cruise missiles at sea. Another Washington declaration: U.S. nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula, Egypt rejects multiple US requests to arm Ukraine: Report.
To 7 August – nuclear news this week
A bit of good news – The largest landfill in Latin America has now been restored into a thriving mangrove ecosystem.
TOP STORIES
Wilfred Burchett: The Atomic Plague,
Those who will fire the nuclear weapons are thoroughly trained to have no hesitation. We must stop them.
US rejects Australian plea to drop Assange case.
UK government must come clean, to tax-payers and consumers, on the financial figures before signing up to new nuclear programme. ( Full report. See in particular paras 41 -44)
Senate passes $886 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA): No audits necessary.
Aggressive U.S. Push for Military Supremacy in the Arctic Could Trigger Nuclear War.
Climate. A Vital Atlantic Ocean System Could Collapse Sooner Than Previously Thought . The Chilling Truth: Antarctica Just Lost an Ice Mass the Size of My Country .
Nuclear. Well – It’s been THAT memorable week – the 78th anniversary. I can’t add to the many fine stories this week. Except to note that all nuclear-weapons nations are sticking to their policies, and the nuclear industry is enthusiastically propagandising -because we all know that small nuclear reactors etc have nothing to do with military use, don’t we?.
Christina notes. Forget Oppenheimer. The real nuclear hero is Joseph Rotblat. The persecution of Wilfred Burchett and Julian Assange .
AUSTRALIA.
- Australian MPs Blast Blinken Over Assange.
- Building for War: The US Imperium’s Top End Spend. USA flexes its belligerent muscles in Western Australia, showing off its nuclear submarines. AUKUS, Australia and the drive to war. A Client State. U.S. aggression against China ignores lessons of Hiroshima. The Day Australian Sovereignty Died.
- Parramatta Labor Party’s FEC unanimous anti-AUKUS motion.
- Nuclear issues turn Radio-Active dial up.
CLIMATE. Nuclear war would be more devastating for Earth’s climate than cold war predictions – even with fewer weapons. What you won’t learn about in Oppenheimer: the potential effects of a nuclear winter.
ECONOMICS. How the “Nuclear Renaissance” Robs and Roasts Our Earth. First new US nuclear reactor in 3 decades may well also be its last. Nuclear power’s landmark project stumbles across the finish line. The unpalatable facts of the costs to consumers of electricity from new nuclear power. The High Costs and Failures of Nuclear Reactors.
ENERGY. The digital data industry is an energy-and-water-guzzling climate disaster. For Scotland, energy is our best argument for independence.
EMPLOYMENT. Hinkley Point scaffolders begin industrial action over pay and shift patterns.
ENVIRONMENT. Environment Agency allows Hinkley Point C permit variation to remove fish deterrent system. Nuclear Weapons: Devastation Inside the U.S. Do right by the whales. Water. Water Wars: Cooling the Data Centres. Environment Agency grants contentious Hinkley C water discharge permit.
ETHICS and RELIGION. Scared to Death! Oppenheimer and the threat of nuclear destruction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xthzy1PxTA&t=5s
HISTORY. Western Media Has Falsely Presented the Donbas’ Drive For Autonomy as Being Instigated By Moscow.
LEGAL. Judge tosses charges against executive in South Carolina nuclear debacle, but case may not be over.
MEDIA. Like ‘the tolling of a distant temple bell’, Ibuse Masuji’s Black Rain remembers the horrors of Hiroshima and warns of the inhumanity of war. ‘Barbenheimer’ highlights U.S. ignorance of nuclear reality. Greg Mitchell on “Oppenheimer” & Why Hollywood Is Still Afraid of the Truth About the Atomic Bomb. Why no Hollywood movie on Nagasaki A Bombing? Humans Might Be About to Break the Ocean? Don’t Stop the Presses.
OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Campaigners against Sizewell C nuclear plan welcome call for financial clarity from Science, Innovation and Technology Committee.
Together Against Sizewell environmental group angry at the coming destruction of marine life, as acoustic fish deterrent will not be installed at Hinkley Point C nuclear. Pacific anti-nuclear groups condemn Fiji’s Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka for backing Fukushima wastewater stance.
PERSONAL STORIES. Oppenheimer’s nuclear fallout: How his atomic legacy destroyed my world.
POLITICS.
- Why The Niger Coup Has Sparked Concerns About Nuclear Power.
- BRING IT HOME-Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
- UK has no coherent plan to develop nuclear energy . Ambition alone will not build UK nuclear power. Another kick in the teeth for UK taxpayers as EDF pockets another £170m of public money for their Sizewell C White Elephant. Ministers diverted £136m from electric car fund to Sizewell C nuclear project despite infrastructure concerns.
- Sweden’s Nuclear Power Ambitions Quashed.
- Why is Ontario Government bent on building a new nuclear reactor, at a much greater cost than solar or wind technologies? New Brunswick Power is kicking the can down the road while the planet burns. ADVANCE Act on nuclear sends us backwards.
POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.
- Requiem for NATO’s Nightmare – the Vilnius summit. Mexican president urges end to ‘irrational’ Ukraine war, wants Russia at peace talks. CIA Director Affirms U.S. Regime Change Strategy in Russia in Address at British Foundation.
- United Nations wants to resurrect a global disarmament mechanism last used in the 1980s.
- Saudi Arabia could convert civilian nuclear to military, Israeli expert warns.
- Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is reiterating his call for the case against Julian Assange to be dropped.
PROTESTS. Protests held in Tokyo against nuclear water discharge,
SAFETY. UN nuclear watchdog finds no explosives at Zaporizhzhia plant. Russia’s Kola nuclear power plant turns 50. That is not necessarily something to celebrate. Non-compliant fire program halts decommissioning of Whiteshell Nuclear Laboratories.
URANIUM. Niger stops uranium and gold export to France.
WASTES.
- Niger’s 20 million tonnes of radioactive waste.
- The nuclear arms race’s legacy: Toxic contamination, staggering cleanup costs and a culture of government secrecy.
- Sellafield seeks partners for £4.8bn nuclear decommissioning works. UK’s Radioactive Waste Management holds meetings in Lincolnshire, seeking a location for nuclear waste dump
WAR and CONFLICT When facts cut through the fog of war. Is the US preparing to dump the proxy war in Ukraine so it can start another in Taiwan? Nuclear catastrophe threat is ‘great and growing’, warn over 100 top medical journals. Veterans, descendants of nuclear testing era urged to apply for British medal.
Decades Later, the U.S. Government Called Hiroshima and Nagasaki ‘Nuclear Tests’, Japan marks 78th anniversary of US atomic bombing on Hiroshima, calls nuclear deterrence ‘folly’. Japan condemns Russia nuclear threat on Hiroshima anniversary.
WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES
The Sky’s the Limit on Nuclear Weapons Spending, But What Does It Really Get Us? US cluster munitions will bring more pain and death to Donbass civilians, and Washington doesn’t care. Kiev’s broken record: no matter what advanced weaponry the West sends, there is no magic wand to conjure a Ukrainian victory. Military Initiative by Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States (AUKUS) is Another Major Step in Prospective War on China. How Have Nuclear Weapons Evolved Since Oppenheimer and the Trinity Test?
TODAY. Forget Oppenheimer. The real nuclear hero is Joseph Rotblat
If only other scientists had followed his example.
If only scientists could learn from Joseph Rotblat, and abandon their dogmatic belief that science is “neutral”
To the end of his life, he believed scientists have personal responsibility for their inventions.
Yeah – you’ve never heard of him, have you? That’s because we have all been brainwashed, in the patriarchy, into believing that heroes are brave tough guys. Joseph Rotblat was brave, but, alas, not a tough guy. So – he don’t qualify.
Robert Oppenheimer might have regretted it later, but he was in favor of using the atomic bomb, seeing it as a terror weapon, that would need to be used only once
Leo Szilard was a “wimp” who did not want the atomic bomb to be dropped on Hiroshima.
But Joseph Rotblat went further than Slizard. In 1943, when it was clear that Germany was not developing atomic weapons, Rotblat saw the danger of atomic warfare, and risk of a nuclear clash with Russia. Rotblat abandoned his role in the Manhattan Project, and left America. USA army intelligence tried hard to depict Rotblat as a Russian agent
After the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Rotblat was determined to prevent the development of future nuclear weapons. He devoted the rest of his life to protesting nuclear testing and weapons production.
During the post-war period, Joseph Rotblat did an enormous amount of work in the cause of peace, dialogue and disarmament through the Pugwash movement, with which he shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995.
Joseph Rotblat passed away on August 31, 2005. To the end of his life, he believed scientists have personal responsibility for their inventions. Rotblat implored: “Above all, remember your humanity.”
Nuclear news – week to 31 July
Some bits of good news – Syrian refugees in Jordan empowered through heritage restoration work, employed by UNESCO. “A Thousand Colours” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz4pLmi6tDY This new UNESCO-Khalili Foundation film “A Thousand Colours” aims to humanize the notion of cultural diversity. Why is cultural diversity important? What are some of the current challenges that undermine it? And what can we do to protect and promote cultural diversity? These are some of the questions addressed by the short film, which gathers testimonies from a number of key global actors including UNESCO Goodwill Ambassadors and advocates. Saving the world is cheaper than ruining it.
TOP STORIES
If Albanese’s such a buddy of Biden’s, why is Assange still in jail? Australia Agrees To Build US Missiles; US Dismisses Australian Concerns About Assange.
William Hartung, Cashing in on a Perpetual Nuclear Arms Race.
Why investing in new nuclear plants is bad for the climate. Small Modular Nuclear Reactors (SMRs) are supported by ideology alone.
Aboriginal Australians defeat nuclear dump,
Western media as cheerleaders for war.
Climate. ‘Era of global boiling has arrived,’ says UN chief . ‘Project 2025’: plan to dismantle US climate policy for next Republican president.
Nuclear. Militarism rules – not always nuclear-related, but pretty much so. I am currently feeling overwhelmed by the speed of my own country, Australia, in its hurtling rush to be a servant of the USA’s NUCLEAR-MILITARY-COMPLEX. No voice from the people – just a straightout government sellout.
Christina’s Notes. Jobs! jobs! jobs! – IN THE DEATH INDUSTRY. Aliens in outer space – a little sad on watching earthlings.
CIVIL LIBERTIES. AUSMIN and Assange: The Great Vassal Smackdown
ECONOMICS. Money talks: 109 global institutions restrict investments in nuclear weapons. There’s no such thing as a new nuclear golden age–just old industry hands trying to make a buck. Keeping contentious nuclear plant open could cost Californians $45B: report. As UK’s Hinkley nuclear plants costs rise to £32 billion ($41.5 billion) EDF Sees Higher Risk of Delays. Government must back Rolls-Royce on nuclear, says ex-boss Sir John Rose.
EDUCATION. University of New Mexico Course Expands Understanding of Nuclear Impact.
ENERGY. Oppenheimer and nuclear energy: Is India and the world moving away from this power source? Old Nuclear Weapons Sites Targeted for Clean Energy Projects.
ENVIRONMENT. Failed Fukushima System Should Cancel Wastewater Ocean Dumping.
HISTORY. St. Louis link in ‘Oppenheimer’ is latest reminder of city’s nuclear legacy. Oppenheimer sent ‘chilling message’ to Jawaharlal Nehru about US building a deadly weapon, ‘begged’ him not to give access to raw material available in India.
LEGAL. Key British Assange supporter says Wikileaks founder could cut deal to secure freedom.
MEDIA. Oppenheimer’s Long Shadow- Reads on the atomic bomb and its creator. Nauseating subservience of Australia’s media and politics to American militarism. Readers disgusted with pro militarism report on Australia getting a “missiles industry”. Australian media’s alarm over Chinese spy ship highlights stark double-standard.
NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY. To avoid nuclear instability, a moratorium on integrating AI into nuclear decision-making is urgently needed: The NPT PrepCom can serve as a springboard
OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . 90 Seconds to Midnight – nuclear weapons are still a threat, not a lesson in history.
POLITICS.
- USA. More Warmongers Elevated In The Biden Administration. Massachusetts rejects Holtec’s request to discharge radioactive water from closed nuclear plant into bay. Past and Future Collide over Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant . No new nuclear facilities along vulnerable coasts, Alaska regulators say. Connecticut governor should veto bill funding unneeded nuclear.
- UK. UK govt to pour another £170million of taxpayers’ cash into planned Sizewell C nuclear plant: is it value for money? UK’s nuclear power ambitions for 2050 lack clear plan, say MPs. UK Government’s infrastructure advisors cast doubt over UK’s biggest energy projects including nuclear clearup. Now, not in 15 years’: Call for public vote on Theddlethorpe nuclear waste dump. Cumbria set for more nuclear reactors as questions are raised over why land isn’t being used for renewable energy.
POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.
- Japan Doesn’t Want to Fight for Taiwan and Neither Do Other US Allies. Will the small states of Oceania be able to maintain their independence in the face of a new Sino-American Cold War?
- Russia prepared to seek diplomatic solution in Ukraine, NATO refuses to talk. The coming Russian-Polish war.
- Iran says ready to settle remaining dispute with IAEA over nuclear program. Rising Global Interest to Join Nuclear Damage Compensation Treaty.
SAFETY. The misguided push to weaken nuclear safety standards is gaining steam. The Global Crisis at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Site Demands Immediate United Nations Intervention. Will this experimental nuclear reactor escape federal scrutiny? Aware people in Suffolk are astonished that very few people or organisations are consulted about changes to Sizewell C Nuclear’s Emergency Plan.
SECRETS and LIES. UPDATE – The Zaporozhiya Nuclear Plant: Zelenskiy’s Next Simulacra? CIA-Linked Security Company Targeted Former Ecuador President Who Granted Assange Asylum.
SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. NASA solving climate crisis by facilitating escape to Mars? Funny How The UFO Narrative Coincides With The Race To Weaponize Space. Legal action over dangerous crowding of satellites and debris in space. NASA is planning to use nuclear power for the first human trip to Mars. Military interest in nuclear-powered space travel, but solar-powered is just as good, -and safer.
WASTES. IAEA report on Fukushima waste-water is wrong – nuclear scientist. Not in our backyard: Securing a referendum over Canada’s plan for a nuclear waste dump. AUKUS nuclear dump deal decades in the making by nuclear evangelists with prescience.
WAR and CONFLICT. Overnight drone attack on Moscow injures one and temporarily closes an airport as Russia suffers ‘consequences’. US admits to pushing Ukraine into a fight it can’t win . Discarding Illusions, Ending Wars. Nuclear weapons on the table if Ukraine counteroffensive succeeds: Russia’s Medvedev. Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow is ‘international terrorism’ – Russia’s Foreign Ministry.
70 Years Later, The Korean War Must End. Washington’s looming war against China. The vanishing profession of preventing nuclear war.
WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. Trident nuclear project can’t be delivered, says watchdog. Bombs away: Confronting the deployment of nuclear weapons in non-nuclear weapon countries. Following the pattern of weapons to Ukraine, Pentagon to send $1billion of weapons to Taiwan . What would George Washington do? He would have audacity to end nuclear weapons.
TODAY. Jobs! jobs! jobs! – IN THE DEATH INDUSTRY
Quite suddenly, any vestige of Australia being an independent country has disappeared overnight.
An entire continent has been handed over to the American military machine, by Australia’s cowardly and self-serving politicians.
And the Australian media exultantly choruses “ Jobs! Jobs ! Jobs! “
I have often wondered why that chorus is repeated endlessly – in awed, religious, joy?
If you work in a caring industry, or in nurturing animals, plants, the environment, in growing food or in one of the many jobs that support life – you can derive some pride in your work. It’s good to be paid some money, but it’s especially good to be able to derive some dignity, self-respect, genuine joy, in knowing that you are genuinely contributing to well-being – to the common good.
It’s a matter of integrity – dare I mention this? – some spiritual satisfaction. You can hold your head up high.
Where is the integrity in making killing machines, things for massacring thousands of people, destroying the land and animals?
And just to make sure that the Americans really mean it, we have the odious Antony Blinken now emphasising that the USA will certainly punish our courageous Australian truth-teller Julian Assange.
PM Albanese, and wimp Foreign Minister Penny Wong just kow tow and agree!
It really IS a climate emergency – but here is nuclear news, anyway
What went right this week: the good news you should know about. A pathway emerged to an Aids-free future, Deforestation fell in the Colombian Amazon. California Military Base is Being Transformed Into one of the Largest City Parks in the U.S.
TOP STORIES
If Everybody’s Going to Join NATO, Then Why Have the United Nations?
The Empire Knows It’s Pouring Ukrainian Blood Into An Unwinnable Proxy War.
The Forever Dangers of Small Modular Nuclear Reactors.
‘Artificial Escalation’: Imagining the future of nuclear risk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9npWiTOHX0
Nuclear trash on indigenous land ?- a court decision puts Australia in a very difficult spot. UK campaigners call on Australian PM to withdraw Kimba nuke dump threat.
CLIMATE. Heatwaves are new normal as 50C hits US and China – UN. How deadly are these heatwaves – and how hot will they get? (nb. kids under 5 especially endangered) Europe heatwave: EU sends planes to Greece as thousands flee fires. Highof 48C expected on continent as red spreads across the European weathermap. From body bags of ice to pavement burn: US grapples with new extreme heat reality. Rain fury: Floods batter North Indian states – nearly a foot of rain in 14 hours recorded.
Christina notes. Is it now OK to talk about ethics again? We need decision-making by women, if we’re going to survive in this nuclear age.
Nuclear. Again – it really is the climate that is the overwhelming news this week – while global leaders busily focus on new ways to plan to kill each other’s populations .
AUSTRALIA.
- Prime Minister Albanese must abandon South Australian nuclear waste dump. Examining the impact of the legal decision against the planned Kimba nuclear waste dump. Court rules in favour of Barngala people, preventing nuclear waste facility in Kimba. South Australian Greens Welcome Court Decision to Stop Nuclear Waste Facility in Kimba. Start from scratch call as nuclear dump plan shelved. Time for dump to be dumped for good.
- Black mist memories.
- AUKUS’ nuclear waste dump is the secret no-one talks about. So what’ll it cost? Congressional Concerns: Stalling Nuclear Submarines for Australia.
- Dutton’s Nuclear Folly: Small Modular Reactors a political mirage. Brisbane 2032 Olympics boss Andrew Liveris says nuclear power must be in the mix to make the Games ‘climate-positive’.
- Nevil Shute’s ‘On the Beach’ warned us of nuclear annihilation. It’s still a hot-button issue with a new play at the Sydney Theatre Company.
CLIMATE. “Nuclear Power Is Already a Climate Casualty”
ENERGY. Does Nuclear slow down the scale-up of Wind and Solar? France and Germany can’t agree.
ECONOMICS. Is the UK Government unable to fund its promised nuclear renaissance? These are the companies that will get the British government’s nuclear bribes. US Asset Managers Have ‘Significant Investments’ in Nuclear Weapons and Cluster Bombs: Analysis. France needs to invest 25 billion euros ($28 billion) each year to maintain its nuclear energy programme. The Big Problem With Small Nuclear Reactors.
ENERGY. Not nuclear, but wind and solar still cheapest – CSIRO
ENVIRONMENT. Cesium 180 times limit found in fish at Fukushima nuke plant 12 years after disaster. Hong Kong tightens radiation inspection of Japanese seafood imports.
ETHICS and RELIGION. Will we ban nuclear weapons, or will Biden and Putin get us all cremated equally?
HEALTH. Nuclear power: Is it safe to use nuclear energy ?- there are the health risks with it.
INDIGENOUS ISSUES. Nuclear Projects Torment Life on Earth.
MEDIA. The Nuclear Age Grimly Descends in “Oppenheimer”. ‘Oppenheimer’ is a pitch-dark American nightmare. We cannot look away. What We Can Still Learn From J. Robert Oppenheimer. Anti-nuclear groups welcome Oppenheimer film but say it fails to depict true horror. The Dynamics of War Insanity: NATO’s Ukraine Roulette.
NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY. UK nuclear future: “China is the world leader in renewables” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob0R-h4GV8s Repeating This Nuclear Power Mistake Will Be Catastrophic For Artificial Intelligence – Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. Oppenheimer biographer supports US bill to bar use of AI in nuclear launches.
OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Best foot forward: Campaigners are marching again for a Nuclear Free Wales. Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) condemns additional billions for Britain’s nuclear arsenal. Scottish CND hit out over ‘nuclear threat‘ in MPs’ military report. Putting the Nuclear Genie Back in the Bottle.
PERSONAL STORIES. Karina’s father went blind at Emu Field. Now, she’s fighting for a treaty on nuclear weapons.
POLITICS. UK government launches”Great British Nuclear” with big bribes, and big promises, for the “small nuclear reactor” industry. Don’t believe the UK government’s hype about small nuclear reactors and Great British Nuclear. Tory nuclear expansion programme.
Council defers decision over Test of Public Support on the issue of disposal of high level nuclear waste. Ontario – Ford government’s electricity plan takes wrong approach. Ontario opts for high-risk nuclear over low-risk energy sources.
POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.
- Disunity in NATO? Only neutral countries can bring peace to Ukraine – Brazil. NATO Is a Warfare Alliance, Not a Force for Global Peace or Stability.
- Why EU sanctions don’t include Russian nuclear industry
- US Republicans threaten to block AUKUS deal.
- UN proposes elimination of all nuclear weapons as first step under new agenda for peace. The Elders publish new policy paper on nuclear weapons.
- NewsReal: As Ukraine Counter-Offensive Fails, Putin Warns Warsaw Against Joining War.
RADIATION. Science and Global Security Maps Radioactive Fallout from U.S. Nuclear Weapon Tests, Beginning with July 1945 Trinity Test. Backgrounder on health consequences of nuclear radiation fallout and the Anthropocene. China’s blanket radiation testing could spell trouble for Japanese seafood imports.
SAFETY. Safety lapses at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Incidents. A 90 million gallon nuclear tragedy. The US should end its use of nuclear power plants – the intractible problem of dangerous spent fuel rods. An inherent potential for catastrophe.
SECRETS and LIES. Europe’s black hole: How much of the more than $185 billion given by the West to Ukraine has been stolen? Corruption In Ukraine & The U.S. Mutually Rewarding.
SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. SpaceX Starlink satellites had to make 25,000 collision-avoidance maneuvers in just 6 months — and it will only get worse. US DOE delivers plutonium-238 for NASA missions.
SPINBUSTER. UK government announces fantasy small modular reactor programme as a cover for Sizewelll C failure. Great British Nuclear: High on hype, Low on substance.
WASTES. Dumping doubts: Releasing Fukushima’s wastewater. To the Pacific islands, the West’s support for Japan’s Fukushima nuclear waste ocean dumping is hypocrisy. The dilemma of continuing to produce nuclear trash which will remain harmful for millennia. Feds digging up nuclear waste in Los Alamos for disposal at Carlsbad-area repository.
WAR and CONFLICT. Ukraine’s Lack of Weaponry and Training Risks Stalemate in Fight With Russia. Ukraine Again Bombs Crimean Bridge. Kiev strikes ammunition depot in Crimea – official. Architect of Annihilation: Oppenheimer’s Deadly Legacy of Nucle ar Terror. Putin warns of Poland’s intentions in Ukraine and Belarus.
WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. Nuclear Notebook: French nuclear weapons, 2023. US turning Ukraine into ‘burial ground’ for lethal waste – Russian envoy. In Ukraine, US Adds to Barbaric Cluster-Bomb Legacy. USA government – more money, $19 billion, grant for making deadly plutonium. The True Symbol Of The United States Is The Pentagon.
WOMEN. Brussels: Global Women For Peace United Against NATO Meet With EU Parliament, NATO Representatives.
This week’s nuclear news, but climate is a bigger story
Some bits of good news: Positive tipping points could save the climate – this man is showing us how. Deforestation rates plummeted in Brazil.
Last week it was a “watershed week”. And it seems that this one is also, – though for a largely different reason. The Ukraine-NATO thing is a mess. The Western media continues to religiously recite the story of Ukraine’s successful “counter-offensive”. But there’s whisper of dissension in NATO, and even some whispered criticism of Volodymyr Zelensky .
But really – the big watershed thing is global heating. At last, the media seems to be abandoning the pretense that global heating effects happen to hit one country, then another – sort of separately. It is becoming obvious that global heating is a global event – at least now enveloping the Northern part of the globe. (We in the cooler South are still comfortably preoccupied with sport, as the major event)
Climate. Temperatures above average almost every day this year. UK to see biggest increase in ‘uncomfortably hot’ days in the world as climate change bites. More than 113 million Americans under extreme heat alerts as relentless temperatures continue. The US says it will not “under any circumstances” pay reparations to developing countries hit by climate change-fuelled disasters. Greenpeace: Asset managers are ‘ignoring’ climate impact of bitcoin.
Christina notes. “As long as it takes” – WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? Zelensky mania! – But are cracks appearing in NATO?Nuclear power is SO IRRELEVANT – to climate! It’s almost funny, -but it’s NOT funny.
TOP STORIES
Julian Assange Is “Dangerously Close” to Extradition for Revealing US War Crimes.
Climate Change Threatens U.S. Nuclear Strike Capability.
A Scott Ritter Investigation: Agent Zelensky – Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLeBb6hPUC8 Will the Ukraine war be the undoing for the European Union?
IN KOSOVO, NATO ALLIES BLAME DEPLETED URANIUM FOR CANCER CASES.
Cuba condemns US deployment of nuclear submarine in its waters.
Failed Fukushima Fixes Falling Like Dominoes.
‘Atomic Fallout’: Records reveal government downplayed, ignored health risks of St. Louis radioactive waste for decades.
AUSTRALIA.
- Labor must hear Indigenous voice against Kimba nuclear site.
- NATO’s talk of further Asian engagement should be feared by Australia. Supporting US military against China could draw Australia into nuclear war, expert warns.
- USA cannot sell nuclear submarines to Australia. Australia on track for exemption to accelerate AUKUS nuclear subs deal. Australia needs a nuclear power school to develop AUKUS capability: Navy chief. .
- Nuclear power too expensive and slow to be part of Australia’s plans to reach net zero, study finds.
- Merri-bek City Council is a Nuclear-Free Zone.
- Dutton wants Australia to join the “nuclear renaissance” – but this dream has failed before. Taiwan solution is diplomacy rather than nuclear hell.
CLIMATE. Extreme weather increasingly disrupted generation of nuclear power in last 30 years: State of the Climate in Europe 2022. Heatwaves: Why this summer has been so hot. High river temperatures to limit French nuclear power production. France Cuts Nuclear Output as Heat Triggers Water Restrictions. How much water do French nuclear plants use? Hungary’s nuclear power plant reduces output due to the hot weather.
ECONOMICS. UK govt discusses sale of Wylfa nuclear site. Michigan ratepayers will foot the bill for Resuscitation of Palisades Nuclear Reactor. Small nuclear reactor industry in big trouble? France to decide on nuclear financing by end of 2024.
EMPLOYMENT. Nuclear safety staffing in the United States: a crisis with no easy fix.
ENERGY. The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hTjLH4T6X8 Welsh campaigners call for Wylfa to be at heart of Ynys Mon ‘green energy’ island.
ENVIRONMENT. Oceans ‘Grave concerns’ as Japan’s plan to release Fukushima wastewater to the Pacific. Safe or septic – Japan’s nuclear wastewater dumping. Dumping Doubts: Releasing Fukushima’s Waste Water. 12 years on, Fukushima’s citizen-scientists continue to test local fish for radioactive substances.. Nuclear bomb plutonium fallout marks dawn of new epoch in which humanity dominates planet.
ETHICS and RELIGION. Archbishop to denounce nuclear arms on Trinity test’s 78th anniversary.
HEALTH. Nuked blood: PM Rishi Sunak is urged to uncover the truth on veterans’ missing health records. Radiation. New Evidence on Tritium Hazards How the world’s most radioactive man cried blood while his skin melted as he was kept alive in 83-day nightmare after horror accident at Japanese nuclear power plant.
INDIGENOUS ISSUES. Nuclear waste issue must be resolved before new facility can be explored, says Saugeen Ojibway Nation.
LEGAL. Sizewell C faces fresh legal action in fall out over water supply.
MEDIA. Terrible truths about nuclear energy exposed. The War on journalism: the Case of Julian Assange. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90OIGGpfHDo&t=366s Oppenheimer: what you need to know before watching. A Pro-Nuke Snoozer.
NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY. Small size, big problems: NuScale’s troublesome small modular nuclear reactor plan. An Unholy Alliance: billionaire technocrats delight in planning Artificial Intelligence to run nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons!
OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR. Kenya has restated its commitment to ensuring nuclear energy and nuclear weapons are not used in the continent. Postpone plans for Kilifi nuclear power, Kenya. Protests stopped nuclear waste dumping at Bradwell in the 80s, and now will likely do so again. Nuclear power is still an option at Comanche 3. These Pueblo activists want to change that. France detonated nearly 200 nuclear ‘tests’ in French Polynesia — now this activist is calling for accountability.
PERSONAL STORIES. Listening to Oppenheimer, Seven Decades Later. Oppenheimer’s tragedy — and ours.
POLITICS.
- U.S. Congress votes down amendment to block cluster bomb shipments to Ukraine. Rep. Gaetz Says He Will Co-Sponsor Amendment to Block Cluster Bombs to Ukraine. BRING IT HOME- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Kennedy accuses Biden of preparing for ‘war with Russia’.
- What to expect from NATO Summit 2023.
- UK delays ‘Great British Nuclear’ launch. Rolls-Royce, mini-nuke sector left in dark as Great British Nuclear launch delayed.
POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.
- Cracks in NATO’s Ukraine Project. “War Effort In Shambles As Hawks Turn On Each Other” At NATO Summit. NATO to keep Ukraine at arm’s length. Zelensky slams Biden’s ‘unprecedented and absurd’ stance on NATO membership. SCOTT RITTER: NATO Summit, a Theater of the Absurd. The Dissolution of NATO May Be the Only Way to Prevent WWIII. Nato isn’t defending Ukraine. It’s stabbing it in the back. The Biden doctrine: “As long as it takes,” or “No matter how many die”.
- An Accident Waiting to Happen: NATO Looks to Asia. Biden Keeps Lying About The US “Not Trying To Surround” China. NATO is ‘malicious poison’ – former Australian PM, Paul Keating, (some agreement with this, in Paris) N Korea slams US move to deploy nuclear submarines to peninsula. Asia is rowing about Fukushima nuclear wastewater.
SAFETY. The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is a ‘dirty bomb’ waiting to happen – a nuclear expert explains. Security concerns for Britain as China might be controlling its nuclear power stations. Incidents. Novouralsk Nuclear Plant Blast—What We Know, as Russians Rushed to Hospital. Russia says West is sponsoring ‘nuclear terrorism’ after Ukrainian drone strike.
SECRETS and LIES. White House opposes independent oversight of Ukraine aid. FBI colluded with Ukraine in social media crackdown – lawmakers. China says Japanese govt’s fund subsidizing local fishing industry ‘hush money’.
SPACE: EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. SpaceX’s Starlink satellites are leaking electromagnetic radiation that’s ‘photobombing’ our attempts to study the cosmos.
SPINBUSTER. Exposing the lying claims of pro nuclear shill Zion Lights.
URANIUM. CANATOMIC: Canada’s Neglected Uranium History.
WASTES. Global Impact: Japan, nuclear watchdog under intense scrutiny over discharge of Fukushima nuclear-contaminated water. Dumping Doubts: Releasing Fukushima’s Waste Water. Japan to Release 1.3 Million Tonnes of Water Used During Fukushima Nuclear Accident. US could stop Ukraine conflict instantly – Hungary.
Takeaways from AP’s examination of nuclear waste problems in the St. Louis region. Canada’s Civil Society Groups Call for Public Debate on Radioactive Waste Management Strategy.
WAR and CONFLICT. NATO fails to reduce nuclear risks at Vilnius Summit. The NATO ultimatum to Ukraine – invitation to win by winter or die . Ukraine admits responsibility for terror attack on Crimean bridge. Drone crashes in Russian ‘atomic city’ – governor. Russia prevents Ukraine attack on Crimea’s Sevastopol. Need more cannon-fodder: Ukraine stepping up mercenary recruitment effort . Ukraine’s chances of victory in 2023 are ‘vanishingly small’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH2mmqhTpi8
Crimea invasion to cost Kiev 200,000 soldiers: Ex-Zelensky aide. WHY ARE AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN UKRAINE? Indonesia Warns Nuclear Weapons Put Southeast Asia a ‘Miscalculation Away’ From Disaster.White House: Ordering the Selected Reserve and Certain Members of the Individual Ready Reserve of the Armed Forces to Active Duty.
WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES.
- U.S. Cluster Bombs Have Arrived in Ukraine. Cluster Bombs for Ukraine? A Warning From Kosovo. Germany Rejects Cluster Bombs For Ukraine As Clip Surfaces Of Biden Admin Previously Calling Them A ‘War Crime’.
- 20% of Ukrainian weapons destroyed in just two weeks – New York Times.
- France to supply Ukraine with long-range cruise missiles with the ‘capacity to strike deeply’.
- Peace Boat arrives in Albany to raise awareness of dangers of nuclear weapons.
- US to deploy 3 armored brigades to Poland and Romania, positioning B-52s in Alaska, closer to Russia.
- Russia’s Northern Fleet will not send nuclear sub to main Navy parade.
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