Lots of non-corporate nuclear news this week.
Some bits of good news – in Romania’s Tarcu Mountains, European bison are proving that rewilding can change an ecosystem, not just save a species. China just launched a nationwide healthcare insurance system for people with disabilities, with a three-year target to cover its entire population. Marine life rebounds off Vancouver Island after decades of loss.
TOP STORIES.
From Risk to Target: The New Reality for Journalists in War Zones-https://www.youtube.com/watchv=0YhrSX6QRZs
The Empire Backs Down, For Now.
Norwegian Nuclear Committee says no to nuclear power in Norway.
Trump accelerates new nuclear warhead production, nearly doubles funding for plutonium “pit” bomb core production.
Trump and Netanyahu: Two Madmen Playing God. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Statement Condemning Trump.
The unforeseen consequences of Iranian resistance.
Can Prospects for Nuclear War Get Any Worse?- Sure, We Can Put AI in Charge.
US War Machine Is Built on Decades of Lies – The Assault on Iran Is No Exception.
Climate. ‘Non-survivable’: heatwaves are already breaching human limits, with worse to come, study finds.
AUSTRALIA.
- At last, a hint of backbone in Australia’s foreign policy.
- Ignoring genocide-The bill for Australia’s silence has arrived. “Genocide Grants.” Government awards millions to F-35 suppliers. The Capture of Australia: How a Dying Ideology is Taking Over Our Country. Name it, blame it, shame it– Israel and Trump must be stopped.
NUCLEAR-RELATED ITEMS
| ART and CULTURE. Trump’s Genocidal Threats on Iran Are Enabled by a Vast Apparatus of Destruction. Trump, Hegseth and the Language of War Crimes. |
| CLIMATE. John Gibbons: I’ve changed my mind on nuclear power — we don’t need it any more |
| ECONOMICS. All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars: Iran and the Bankers’ Endgame. Anas Sarwar’s ‘nuclear plot would hammer Scottish bill payers’ Could a New Nuclear Reactor Double or Triple Electricity Rates in New Brunswick? Audit cites DOE oversight failures on NuScle nuclear project. Cenovus pulled the plug on its much-ballyhooed ‘multi-year’ study of ‘small modular reactors’ in 2024 after a year. Trillions Hidden, Humanity Starving: The Super-Rich vs. the Rest of Us. The Myth that Won’t Die: “War is Good for the Economy”. |
ENERGY. Faced with new energy shock, Europe asks if reviving nuclear is the answer
ETHICS and RELIGION
- Prominent New York synagogue hosts presentation on why U.S. Jews should support the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.
- How the neoconservative influence over U.S. war-making paved the way for Trump’s war crimes in Iran.
- The bomb and the ayatollah: Islamic just war and the nuclear question in post-Khamenei Iran.
- The Eve Of A Radical Evil.
- US Troops Need To Start Disobeying Orders In Iran.
- Pope Leo’s first Easter ‘Urbi et Orbi’ message: ‘Let those who have weapons lay them down’
- “Heretic”: After Trump spiritual adviser Paula White-Cain likens Trump to Jesus during Easter, right-wing media figures lash out.
- Warhawks licking your lips’: Details on Iran’s nuclear program leaked.
- Flotilla coalition prepares renewed mission to break Gaza siege.
| LEGAL International law or foreign military bases: a choice must be made.NuScale Power Corporation Class Action Reminder – Robbins LLP Encourages SMR Stockholders to Contact the Firm for Information About Their Rights .“Locked and Loaded”: Hegseth Says Trump’s War‑Crime Warnings Were Dead Serious. |
| MEDIA. U.S. Media finally acknowledging Israel’s central role in Trump’s criminal war on Iran .A good documentary on Chernobyl on SBS available On Demand for the next 4 weeks.100 Strikes in 10 Minutes: Lebanon Bombed as Gaza Burns and Journalists Are Killed.Tony Blair’s latest deceit-riddled column vilifies the UK left to justify genocide.The Mass Media Are Evil But They’re Also Really Dumb.The Iranian people achieved decisive victory against America’s criminal war on them. |
| OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Anti-nuclear group to continue fight against Sellafield plan.Making London councils allies in the campaign to oppose Britain’s nuclear expansion.Arrests at Lakenheath nuclear base blockade. |
POLITICS.
- Trump threatened a civilisation – We must respond to nuclear threats.
- They Reject American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)—But Not the War Machine. Former presidents must call for end to Trump’ criminal Iran war destabilizing the world…but won’t.
- An Open Letter to Washington: The World Cannot Afford Silence.
- UK Government reviewing fallout report after nuclear test concerns.
- Labour and SNP clash over nuclear power for Scotland amid Holyroodcampaign – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2026/04/11/3-b1-labour-and-snp-clash-over-nuclear-power-for-scotland-amid-holyrood-campaign/
- Norway should not work towards nuclear power generation now, commission finds.
POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.
- War has given Iran new leverage for nuclear programme, say US former envoys.
- America Is Losing the World—and It Doesn’t Know How to Stop – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmXwmacMgi4
- The World Can Have Peace Or Israel, But Not Both.
- Ceasefire with Iran: Don’t hold your breath – Israel and US lie all the time.
- Ceasefire on the Brink — The Day Genocide Became a Negotiating Tactic.
- Trump says Tuesday deadline for Iran to accept ceasefire ‘final, won’t change’; Israel takes out experienced IRGC intel chief.
- Xi–Zheng Meeting Sends Clear Signal: Peaceful Reunification Framed as Strategic Imperative for China’s Future.
| PLUTONIUM. Blocking Iran’s Other Option: A Plutonium Bomb. |
| SAFETY. WHO warns of catastrophic risks after strike on Bushehr nuclear plant.TEPCO halts cooling of spent fuel pool at Fukushima Daini plant.Incident. 60 Years Nuclear Accident of Palomares – Lost hydrogen bombs and their consequences. Defra plots faster planning process for Sizewell C nuclear plant. |
| SECRETS and LIES. THE “SPIES” WHO CRIED GENOCIDE.US Satellite Firm Blacks Out Iran War Images Per US Government Request.The Ambassador of Duplicity: How Israel’s UN Representative Blames Others for the Crimes His State Commits. |
| SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. As Rocket Launches Increase, They May Be Polluting the Skies. Creating military bases on the Moon.Mysterious Flashes in 1950s Skies Linked to Nuclear Tests and UAP Sightings: Study. |
| TECHNOLOGY. Nuclear fusion – triumph of hope over expectation – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2026/04/09/1-b1-nuclear-fusion-triumph-of-hope-over-expectation/ |
| URANIUM. Secrets and Shortcuts: The US Uranium Enrichment Rush.Canada’s government faces calls to begin enriching uranium-Should it? Protecting Our Wells: The Rural Costs of Uranium Exploration in Rural Nova Scotia . |
| WASTES. Finland’s plan to bury spent nuclear waste carries risk to future generations. |
WAR and CONFLICT.
- Trump’s vaunted 14 day ceasefire barely lasted 14 hours.
- Israel Carpet Bombs Lebanon After Announcement of Iran Ceasefire.
- US, Israel Insist Iran Ceasefire Doesn’t Apply In Lebanon, Which Suffers Huge Airstrikes.
- “Because They’re Animals”: Donald Trump, the War on Iran, and the Rules Nobody’s Enforcing.
- Trump pivots from “destroying Iranian civilization” to complete surrender in one day.
- Why an attack on Bushehr nuclear plant would be catastrophic for the Gulf.
- No sane soldier would follow Hegseth into illegal, failed war. https://nuclear-news.net/2026/04/08/2-b1-no-sane-soldier-would-follow-hegseth-into-illegal-
- Area around Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant has been attacked for the fourth time
- The Unwarranted Iran War: US-China Stakes, Regional Costs, Global Losses
| WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. Inside Iran’s ‘underground fortress’: How Iran’s missile bases survive most powerful US and Israeli bombs, |
Not the Corporate Nuclear News – week to 5 April
Some bits of good news –
UNESCO’s new Global Education Monitoring Report reveals a dramatic expansion in global education since 2000. Lead in archived hair documents a decline in lead exposure to humans since the establishment of the US Environmental Protection Agency with regulation of leaded petrol and other major sources. Australia’s tiny marsupial ampurta is making a big comeback
TOP STORIES. Chernobyl at 40: The World’s Worst Nuclear Power Accident and Where It Stands Now.
A ‘small’ nuclear war would still be global catastrophe.
From ISIS to Iran: Joe Kent Says Washington Keeps Repeating the Same Catastrophic Playbook – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teapZxaBgDI
Golden Dome as a Leaky Golden Shower: Trump’s $4 Trillion Missile Defense System Ridiculed in DC. – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8zcu-ZM0jQ&t=1s
Christian Nationalists in US Government Push Attacks on Iran as Holy War.
It’s all about the nukes.Israeli nuclear city emerges as focal point in escalating Iran–Israel confrontation.
Climate. Data centers are creating ‘heat islands’ on land around them – warming them by up to 16 degrees, researchers warn. Funding gap threatens next round of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) climate science reports. Climate change will push venomous snakes towards highly populated coastlines, study finds. US scientists are escaping to Norway because of Trump’s anti-climate agenda, minister says.
AUSTRALIA For Australia the Price is Always Right.
The war they sold us, the price we pay. US war on Iran exposes Australia’s frail defence, AUKUS even more. UniSuper members ‘divest from death’ on Palestine Land Day . Zomi Frankcom killing– Press Club takes on Israel’s ambassador. The Platform of Shame: How Australia Normalised a Genocidal Regime. 15 April – Zoom –Nuclear Power is Not the Solution
21 April Webinar: No Nuclear Weapons in Australia.
ATROCITIES.
‘The rope is for Arabs only’: Israel’s new death penalty law for Palestinians recycles a colonial playbook. ‘This Arrogant Enemy’: Israel’s Colonial Reversion to the Noose.
- Trump’s $1.5 Trillion Pentagon Budget Will Make US Weaker.
- So much winning.
- New Brunswick power bills will continue to rise, panel warns.
- Who Else, Besides Pete Hegseth, is Trying to Use the War in Iran to Get Rich?
- Ukrainian Economy ‘Collapsing’.
ENERGY. Will the New Brunswick Power Review finally shake up New Brunswick Power? DONALD TRUMP: THE GREAT ILLUMINATOR. How Iran war energy crisis strengthens case for renewables.
| ETHICS and RELIGION. Trump’s Divine War: How Christian Nationalists Are Running U.S. Policy in Iran and at Home.The Empire Is Losing Its Ability To Hide Its Ugly Nature.On Good Friday, Pope Leo speaks with presidents of Israel and Ukraine, calling for an end to war.Kucinich Statement on President Trump’s Address on Iran. |
| EVENTS 7 April – WEBINAR – Australia and the Doomsday Clock – Preventing nuclear war through NoFirstUse and other policies.14 April – Zoom –Nuclear Power is Not the Solution21 April – No Nuclear Weapons in Australia – Civil Society Declaration. |
| HISTORY. Trump’s “New” Mideast: False Promises of Peace Through War. |
| INDIGENOUS ISSUES. Progress, push back and Indigenous rights. |
| LEGAL. NuScale’s ENTRA1 “Veterans” Had Zero Nuclear Projects — Investors Lost 70%.Legal challenge against nuclear site plan rejected. |
| MEDIA They attack, we defend: how the media toe the line on Iran. Washington Post Promotes Nuclear Agenda Tied to Bezos’ Investments.Inspiring the Authentic Journalist: The Pentagon’s Renewed attack on Press Credentials.No To Nuclear- Why Nuclear Power Destroys Lives, Derails Climate Progress and Provokes War. |
| OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Back to Pentagon on Good Friday.Protestors target RAF Lakenheath amid evidence of US nuclear weapons and role in illegal war on Iran. |
| PERSONAL STORIES. US negotiator in 2015 Iran nuclear deal says Donald Trump ‘delusional’ on nuclear and regime change. |
POLITICS. New US war team needed to end Iran war on Iran’s sensible terms. Scotland won’t pursue ‘unproven’ SMRs and ‘experimental’ fusion as focus remains renewables.
POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.
- Trump and Greenland: Key war fighting base for Arctic control
- Ukraine actively involved in US-Israeli aggression against Iran: Envoy to UN.
- Dimona’s shadow: How Israel’s nuclear monopoly warps Middle East security.
- Why is Iran being singled out while others escape scrutiny? : Erase nuclear apartheid.
- How the Iran War undermines the nuclear nonproliferation regime.
- Trump’s Non-Address: The Strait of Trump and the Vandalism of Global Order.
| PUBLIC OPINION. War front updates: America opposes war on Iran |
| RADIATION. The Impact Of Radiation On Health | March 25, 2026. |
| SAFETY. UN nuclear agency chief ‘deeply concerned’ by reports of latest attack on Iran power plantUS-Israel war on Iran heightening nuclear accident risk – CND.EBRD donors back plan to repair Chornobyl’s protective shield. |
| SECRETS and LIES. Massacre of UK aid workers: two years of obfuscation from Britain.UK submarine captain steps down after link to Chinese spy case. |
| SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. The US has declared ‘space superiority’ over Iran – What does that mean?. |
| SPINBUSTER. The “Nuclear Energy Paradox”– Investigating nuclear imaginaries in energy projections.No Three Mile Island in Suffolk!Sanctity Lost: Even Neocon Pantheon Declares US a ‘Rogue Superpower’. |
| TECHNOLOGY. Bypass the Strait of Hormuz with nuclear explosives?- The US studied that in Panama and Colombia in the 1960sFusion power unlikely to become competitive.Atlanta robot security dogs now giving commands to Americans. |
| URANIUM. Does the Trump administration understand how ‘enriched’ uranium is made into weapons? |
| WASTES. France plans inquiry as cost of nuclear waste project hits €33bn.Scenario Analysis for Partitioning and Transmutation(P&T) in a Phase-out Scenario.Decommissioning. Manchester Professor appointed expert reviewer for Government nuclear decommissioning review |
WAR and CONFLICT.
- Ambassador Chas Freeman: Trump PUSHES ESCALATION — Israel’s Strategy COLLAPSES Overnight. Escalating To Catastrophe.
- Experts Warned For Years That A War With Iran Would Happen This Way.
- After murdering thousands in criminal Iran war, Trump to surrender during address to nation tonight.
- Implications of a Possible US Ground Invasion of Iran.
- Two Faces of Peace: How Trump’s “Peacemaker” Presidency Waged War Across the Globe.
- Trump Willing to End War on Iran without opening Hormuz Strait?
- Netanyahu woke up on Iran war day 31 with a 3-front war he cannot win.
- Israel is making sure Trump can’t find an off-ramp in Iran.
- Trump weighs highly-complex military plan to fly special ops forces into Iran’s nuclear facility and seize enriched uranium.
- Thousands of Iranians Who Live on Kharg Island Face Possibility of US Invasion
- What Happens When a Nuclear Site Is Hit?
WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. Did Trump bomb Iranian schoolgirls with UK-made weaponry?
What to Know About the ‘Massive’ Military Bunker Beneath Trump’s Ballroom.
It Takes Years To Refuel A Nuclear Submarine – Here’s Why.
Non-corporate, and even some corporate, nuclear news this week
Some bits of good news –
Chile made waves with its conservation plans. Teen leaders take on child marriage in Bangladesh.
Virunga National Park Sees Hundreds of Elephants Return and Rare Gorilla Twins Born During Hopeful Year.
TOP STORIES. Israel launches strikes on nuclear sites as Iran warns of retaliation.
Doomsday Double Standard: U.S. Silent on Israel, Loud on Rivals.
Trump’s $200 billion Iran spending request reveals scale of US war plans.
US/Israel War against International Law.
Nuclear Power Equals Trump ProfitsThe Nightmare of Fukushima 15 Years Later.
Renewables are taking the wind out of new nuclear’s sails – ALSO AT
From the archives – Iran’s president vows to never build a nuclear bomb in his United Nations General Assembly speech.
Climate. Oceans take in a lot of heat as Earth’s energy imbalance hits record – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=574S9kGALng What a recent court win reveals about the Trump administration’s unlawful attacks on climate science.
Noel’s notes. Titanic misconceptions that things will be OK
AUSTRALIA. The high costs of Albo’s rubber-stamp war in the Middle-East. How climate and renewables “disinformation networks” are fuelling a major national security threat. Western Australia submarine’s base the only reason for AUKUS. The war against Iran:Lessons still unlearned. The weakest link: Australia’s submarine hopes depend on the UK, but Britannia no longer rules the waves. The Iran war is Australia’s margin call.
Trump is the most dangerous man in the world
NUCLEAR-RELATED ITEMS
| ART and CULTURE War Becomes Spectacle in Trump’s Horrific Propaganda Promoting War in Iran. The Inheritance of Fear: From the Cold War to Trump’s World. |
| CLIMATE. Fears huge nuclear dump buried under concrete dome could be unleashed into the sea. Coastal erosion raises questions over protection for £40bn Sizewell C nuclear plant. |
| CIVIL LIBERTIES. Conscientious objector and human rights defender Yurii Sheliazhenko detained. |
| ECONOMICS. ‘Worst case scenario’: Wall St craters, oil surges as nuclear sites hit. Does SMR Stand for Spending Money Recklessly? Ontario’s nuclear push risks another costly policy failure. A Great British Nuke-Off in Wales? |
| EDUCATION. Taxpayers to cough up £65.6 million for nuclear “industry-informed” education in British universities. Deader than a doornail –UK’s new nuclear. |
| ENERGY. Energy fallout from Iran war signals a global wake-up call for renewable energy. |
| ENVIRONMENT. Nuclear Power: The Real Effects 14m (Gordon Edwards 2026). |
| ETHICS and RELIGION. Sure, killing kids is fine, just don’t put American boots on the ground! ‘We Won’t Die for Israel’: Military Members Seek a Way Out as U.S. War Expands.Pentagon Whistleblower Criticizes “Bloodthirst” of Iran War, Says Hegseth Is Enabling War Crimes – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQOYVX8fWiw Secretive tech mogul Peter Thiel brings his Antichrist lectures to the Vatican’s doorstep | DW News |
| EVENTS. Tell the Ukrainian Government to Drop Prosecution of Peace Activist Yurii Sheliazhenko |
| HEALTH. ‘Robust and consistent’ signal: Cancer mortality rates higher near nuclear power plants. |
| LEGAL. Iranian man freed pending further inquiries after UK nuclear submarine base arrest. |
MEDIA. NEW FILM – ORWELL: 2+2=5. Orwell, Trump and the persistence of fascism: ‘He was giving us a warning’ – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tKAaEqoJq0
Fox News’ united front in support of Trump’s Iran war may be breaking down.
Israel’s primary role in Iran war scrubbed from mainstream media.
Pete Hegseth’s War on Journalists (and Iran Too).
Russia summons Israeli envoy over missile strike on journalists in Lebanon- Zakharova: “Cannot be called accidental”.
New Film: Earth’s Greatest Enemy
PERSONAL STORIES. The Warmongers Will Never Admit They Were Wrong And Will Never Learn From Their Mistakes.
| POLITICS. Sizewell C Inquiry. The Deafening Abdication of Four Ex-Presidents on Trump. Republican Lawmakers Led By Nancy Mace Begin To Break With Trump On Iran War: ‘We Were Misled’. US Congress near totally complicit in Trump’s criminal Iran war. |
| POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. Macron slams ‘unacceptable’ Israeli attacks on Lebanon. Iran’s Retaliation Reignites Discontent With US Military Bases in Middle East. |
| SAFETY. Nuclear Deregulation – DOGE Goes Nuclear: How Trump Invited Silicon Valley Into America’s Nuclear Power Regulator. IAEA Database: About 55% of Nuclear and Other Radioactive Material Thefts Since 1993 Occurred During Transport Nuclear plant told to improve after ‘near misses |
| SECRETS and LIES.Trump White House plagiarized Iran war manifesto from Israel-aligned think tank.Israel’s Mossad promised it could ignite regime change in Iran, says report.Tremors in MAGA: Joe Kent, the Iran War and the Antisemitism Smear.A MAN and woman have been arrested after attempting to enter Faslane naval base. |
| SPINBUSTER. On lost Iran war Trump mimicking Hitler’s delusion at end of WWII. |
| TECHNOLOGY. Inside the Dirty, Dystopian World of AI Data Centers. Next-gen nuclear has a chicken-and-egg problem. UK bets big on homegrown fusion and quantum — can it lead the world? The Depletion of Judgment Capital. |
WASTES.
Decommissioning. ‘Significant milestone for nuclear sector’ as Hunterston B relicensed for decommissioning. Nuclear decommissioning in the UK.
A Sunken Nuclear Submarine Is Leaking Radiation Into the Ocean. How Worried Should We Be?
Fife Council approve Babcock plan for nuclear waste storage building.
This Infamous Radioactive ‘Tomb’ Is Leaking, And Experts Are Worried.
Drone video from inside a Fukushima reactor shows a hole in pressure vessel, likely fuel debris.
Third and final shipment of vitrified waste from the UK to Germany.
WAR and CONFLICT .
- Operation Epic Flurry. Iran says it never requested US energy strike pause: Escalation proceeding on all fronts.
- Donald Trump’s ‘new’ 15‑point plan is the biggest sign yet that Washington fears it is losing this war.
- Greenpeace warns Trump’s threat to bomb Iran’s power grid risks humanitarian and nuclear disaster .
- Operation Epic Fury and US Unreadiness for War. Trump’s battle plan for Iran.
- A War Built on Lies, Sold by Lobbyists, with Innocent Children as its Price.
- Why US likely losing war on Iran.
- Trump ready to put boots on the ground in Iran.
- No Good Exit
- Russian hospitals hit, strikes on kindergartens: Does Ukraine think everyone’s distracted by Iran?
- ‘Iran Posed No Imminent Threat’: Trump’s Counterterrorism Director Resigns in Protest.
- Iran Is Forcing The World To Care About US-Israeli Warmongering.
WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. Israel wants to destroy Iran’s nuclear program- But should it have nuclear weapons itself?
Switzerland Just Exposed Project Ranger’s Weakness. Switzerland Blocks Arms Sales to U.S. Over Iran War.
UK’s Astute nuclear submarine timeline is very unlikely to be met.
A Remotely-Piloted Weapon That Targets Civilians in War Zones.
Fortnight to 21 March in nuclear-related (non-corporate) news
Some bits of good news – Nigeria unlocks $552 million for basic education. The Iran war is turning energy security into an electrification story Canada’s Supreme Court has opened Quebec’s daycare system to refugee claimants. Big cities breathed a little easier.
TOP STORIES. Principled: Trump-appointed counterterrorism director Joe Kent resignsin protest over US war with Iran.
Trump hints U.S. will turn to Cuba after Iran: ‘Just a question of time’ – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lKxS-NmJVY
Israel planned this war on Iran for 40 years- everything else is a smoke screen.
In US/Israeli war on Iran, all roads point to rise in global nuclear weapons. .
Small modular reactors – smaller regulation?
Oxfam responds to mass forced displacement in Lebanon and ready to respond to wider regional crisis.
While Hinkley Nuclear Was Being Built, The UK Grid Decarbonized.
Climate. Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds.
Noel’s notes. Why should Trump get all the blame?
AUSTRALIA.
- The Software Upgrade Australia Didn’t Need.
- The Architecture of Silence: Palantir, AUKUS, and the Business of Genocide.
- Shhh! Don’t Mention the War! – Scam of the Week- Pointless sending of UK nuclear submarine HMS Anson to Australia?
- The Perfect Storm: How the Far-Right Surge and Labor’s Silence are Reshaping Australia.
- Penny Wong’s Iran war lies exposed – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjcjyK6oglw .
- Millions in tax-deductible donations to IDF, illegal settlements
- The Toxic Legacy of Britain’s Nuclear Testing in Australia.
- “Grow your own and buy local”: Networks seek change and flexibility to manage a 100 pct renewable grid.
- More Australian news at https://antinuclear.net/2026/03/08/5-australian-nuclear-news-week-to-14-march-2026/
NUCLEAR_RELATED TOPICS
| ARTS and CULTURE. Is a Mass Revolt Against Technocracy Starting to Happen? |
| ECONOMICS. For Denmark, Large uncertainties on the expected costs of SMRs in the 2040s and 2050s Re/insurers must plan for nuclear-powered ships, says Axa XL. |
| EDUCATION. UK universities getting more enmeshed in the nuclear lobby. |
| EMPLOYMENT. UK’s nuclear research body consults on plans to cut about 200 jobs – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2026/03/21/1-b1-uks-nuclear-research-body-consults-on-plans-to-cut-about-200-jobs/ Trident workers to strike in row over nuclear job cuts. |
ENERGY.
- As the oil and gas crisis drives the world economy towards another financial crash, green energy is the only viable future.
- The Strait Is Closed: How Trump’s Strike on Iran Triggered a Global Energy Crisis.
- ‘Punching them while they’re down’: US & Israel bomb Iran’s schools & hospitals, with ‘no stupid rules of engagement’.
- Bill Gates’ TerraPower Finally Has a Permit for a Nuclear Reactor, but No Reliable Way to Fuel It.
| ETHICS and RELIGION. Cardinals McElroy and Cupich denounce Iran war: ‘War now has become a spectator sport.’ |
| MEDIA. A chilling reminder of the deceit & violence of Iraq war. |
| OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Coalition Grows Against Hochul’s Nuclear Plan. The Welsh dragon is getting ready to roar. |
POLITICS.
- Scottish National Party face an uphill battle in home of UK’s nuclear subs.
- Macron accosted.
- “AIPAC Is Toxic”: Illinois Races Expose a Shifting Democratic Landscape.
- Senator Joins Police to Eject Antiwar Marine From Hearing, Breaking His Arm – https://youtu.be/HIo4uY1N0Tg? t=27
- Marco spills the beans…’Bibi made us do it’
- As proposals for nuclear stations proliferate across Canada, ‘fleet-based’ reactor deployment remains elusive – ALSO AT …..
- Canada will soon release new electricity and nuclear strategy, minister says .
POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. Israel’s Manipulation of Trump on Iran.
Washington’s Public Swagger Meets Private Panic Over Iran. Alone at the Apex.
Trump’s NATO Warning Sounds More Like a Threat.
| SAFETY.Safety meltdown: Trump’s weakening of nuclear reactor regulations sparks opposition. |
| SECRETS and LIES. Scottish Labour donation linked to ‘astroturf’ nuclear campaign.‘We deserve to know the truth’: 11 questions about US bases in Britain.Pro-nuclear group faces questions over ‘links’ to major London PR firm. A Japanese ‘conman’ tried to sell an undercover DEA agent nuclear materials – but how did he get them? Hungary detains Ukrainians transporting tens of millions in cash and gold. |
| SPINBUSTER. Debunking Nuclear ‘Hopium’ – Dr. GordonEdwards. |
| URANIUM. Iran’s nuclear materials and equipment remain a danger in an active war zone. |
| WASTES NRC ends work on three proposed rules for securing spent fuel |
| WAR and CONFLICT. UN preparing for nuclear catastrophe ‘worst case scenario’ including use of nukes in Middle East. Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant ‘hit in strike’ as radiation update issued. As Trump Talks of Taking Cuba, Havana Promises “Impregnable Resistance”. Trump, Netanyahu down to last card in criminal Iran war.Iran signals a ‘fight to the end‘ with choice of new ayatollah .Back on its heels, will Israel nuke Iran? Starmer’s Self-Defence Fudge: The UK’s Growing Involvement in the Iran War. |
| WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. Macron names next $11.5 billion nuclear-powered aircraft carrier ‘France Libre’ as a symbol of independence. |
What a week in non-corporate nuclear news!
Some bits of goodnews –
Chile eliminates leprosy Kazakhstan is rebuilding habitat for the return of wild tigers more than 70 years after the species vanished from Central Asia. Croatia Declared Landmine-free After More Than 2 Decades of Demining Efforts
Green energy gave the UK’s flat economy a boost
TOP STORIES. Preemptive War, Permanent Emergency: The Real Cost of Trump’s Iran Strike.
Negotiation to Detonation.Trump’s 3 day ‘quickie’ war turning into a 3 year catastrophe.This Illegal US-Israeli Attack on Iran Is Also an Assault on the United Nations.
Trump’s War of Choice: Oman Reveals Iran Agreement Was Imminent. – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg5sXQDR8NY
‘Bombs Will Be Dropping Everywhere’: Trump Launches Illegal Regime Change War Against Iran.
Climate. Global sea levels have been underestimated due to poor modelling, research suggests
AUSTRALIA. The Mushroom Treatment: A Government That Treats You With Contempt Cannot Be Trusted. Australia and the “Epstein Coalition”- Invasion of Iran a disaster. The Ghost in the Kill-Chain:The Invisible Cost of “Surgical” War. More Australian nuclear news at https://antinuclear.net/2026/03/07/this-weeks-australian-nuclear-news-2/
NUCLEAR-RELATED ITEMS
| ECONOMICS. U.S. and Japan Ponder Nuclear Energy Project in Massive $550 Billion Deal. |
| ENERGY. Nuclear power falls below half its historic peak share of global electricity generation. Study: Energy Efficiency Can Address Surging Electricity Needs at Half the Cost of Gas Plants. |
| ENVIRONMENT. Conservationists challenge effectiveness of £700 million fish safety system. Water. Could a huge data centre revitalise Ayrshire – or ruin it? |
| ETHICS and RELIGION. A Catholic guide to understanding the war with Iran.Good grief…Jesus freaks taking over military indoctrination. The US War Machine Is Run By Deranged Armageddon Cultists. Iran Is Morally Superior To The United States. U.S. Military Leaders Tell Troops Trump Is Waging Iran War To Bring Forth Second Coming Of Jesus. |
| EVENTS. 14 March – Protesters to rally at Faslane base in anti-nuclear demonstration. Advocating for a nuclear free beach – https://www.samuellawrencefoundation.org/ |
| HEALTH. Two pieces of news re Radiation and Health. |
OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Welsh Anti-Nuclear Alliance relaunched amid concerns over new projects planned for Wales.
POLITICS.
- Kucinich: “Iran Could Be the Graveyard of the American Empire”
- As Trump Bombs Iran, We Need to Reckon With the American War Machine.
- Tulsi Gabbard’s Own Testimony Resurfaces as Iran War Narrative Escalates
- Labour panned as nuclear project ‘to cost more than Scotland’s block grant’. Residents invited to have say on Hunterston nuclear forum.
POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.
- In Iran, Israel’s morbid military cult now has the US fully in its grip.
- IAEA says no evidence Iran is building a nuclear bomb.
- Trump Threatens Full Trade Embargo Over Spain’s Refusal to Be Complicit in Iran Attacks.
- Stop Trump’s New Mass-Murder Spree.
- Iran Demands Emergency United Nations Action Amid ‘Criminal Aggression’ by US, Israel.
- Trump Says He Must Have a Say in Picking Iran’s New Leader.
- “America First” in the Middle East: A Strategy of Domination, Not Conflict Resolution.
- US Attacks in Venezuela and Greenland Lay Groundwork for Billionaire Fiefdoms.
- UN nuclear watchdog says it’s unable to verify whether Iran has suspended all uranium enrichment.
| SAFETY.NRC buckles to White House and licenses dangerous TerraPower reactor. Natural Resources Defense Council supports restart of NextEra’s Duane Arnold nuclear station, a known danger. Coastal erosion risks to planned Sizewell C nuclear power station. Sellafield recruitment opens for Authorised Firearms Officers. Incident – New Addition to List of Nuclear Near Catastrophes. Capenhust-based nuclear facility faces prosecution after uranium leak. |
| SECRETS and LIES. When will US, Israel stop censoring massive damage to US facilities and Israel? Debunking the lies of the Iran War. Mendacious Rationales: The Lies Behind Operation Lion’s Roar. |
| SPINBUSTER. According to Pete Hegseth – “They are toast”. Golden pipedreams – UK Advanced Nuclear plan. |
| TEPCO planning to send probe into Fukushima nuke reactor. Japan Eyes Pacific Island for Nuclear Waste Disposal Site.TEPCO removing empty tanks to advance Fukushima plant decommissioning work. |
WAR and CONFLICT.
- Who Bombed Girls’ School in Iran? Reporter Nilo Tabrizy on What We Know About Massacre of 175 People – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4zE2pAqJck
- America’s Thelma & Louise Moment: Rubio Shows How Israel and Trump Drove Off the Cliff Together.
- A War for Oil: Economist Michael Hudson on U.S. Quest to Control the World’s Oil Trade.
- President Trump Says He May Have ‘Forced Israel’s Hand’ Into Iran War.
- NewsReal: Historic Miscalculation? US & Israel ‘Decapitate Iranian Regime’, Yet Iran is Striking Back HARD.
- Iran says Natanz nuclear site hit in US-Israeli strikes
- Beyond Nuclear condemns attack on Iran.
- US-Israeli War on Iran is NOT About Nuclear Weapons– It’s About Imperialism.
- Trump’s unprovoked attack on Iran risks terror, turmoil and the spread of nuclear weapons – the consequences will be dire.
- Exiled Iranian Denounces War: ‘The People Will Suffer, Not Gain!’
- International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) condemns strikes against Iran, calls for return to negotiations.
- Trump Says ‘Heavy and Pinpoint Bombing’ of Iran Will Continue “As Long As Necessary”.
- US and Israeli attack on Iran: At least 51 girls reported killed in strike on school.
- Trump calls for regime change in Iran as US and Israel launch‘massive’ strikes.
- A War With Iran Would Not Be a One-Off Event But a Disastrous Ongoing Rupture.
WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES
‘Not One Damn Penny’: Pentagon Expected to Ask Congress for Billions to Fund Iran War.
Macron plans to deploy nuclear weapons to Britain. France to increase its number of nuclear warheads, Macron says – as it happened. France officially enters Nuclear Arms Race. Golden Dome to Rio Rancho: Public Infrastructure, Private Weapons, Public Consequences. Nuclear flashpoints to fallout.
The non-corporate nuclear news this week
Some bits of good news – This City Turned Its Rooftops into a Climate Shield. Wales passed a ‘life-changing’ homelessness bill. a form of blindness.
TOP STORIES.
Trump Advisers Want Israel To ‘Attack Iran First’ For Better Optics: Politico.
National analysis of cancer mortality and proximity to nuclear power plants in the United States.
Year 4: The Timeline That Tells the Tale
“Selling a dream”: the French nuclear start-up that ran aground.
AUSTRALIA.
AUKUS & potential terrorism threats.
- Is Australia-US Alliance Hurting Australia?
- Jewish groups call on Tony Burke to cancel Israeli journalist visa.
- Good enough for Gina Rinehart should be good enough for Palantir.
- Australia invests $310m to fast-track parts for first AUKUS nuclear submarines.
NUCLEAR-RELATED ITEMS.
ATROCITIES. ‘Flagrant War Crime’: Investigation Recreates 2025 Israeli Massacre, Cover-Up of 15 Gaza Aid Workers. Israeli troops fired900+ rounds at Gaza medics – report
EVENTS
Webinar “Debunking Nuclear Hopium – Small Modular Nuclear Reactors, Advanced Nuclear Reactors, and Fusion” at https://www.grassrootsinfo.org/forums
| HEALTH. Middle-aged women ‘most at risk of cancer’ from nuclear power plants. |
| INDIGENOUS ISSUES. The hidden health crisis tied to America’s nuclear arsenal: How Native American families suffer the grisly side-effects from uranium mines. |
| LEGAL. Appeal court refuses TASC’s appeal against the High Court’s Sizewell C JR application decision. |
| MEDIA.New Book: The Dangers of Ionising Radiation Israel Responsible for Two-Thirds of Journalist Deaths in 2025: Press Freedom Group |
| OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . No to uranium mining in Greenland. Britain must rethink its disastrous nuclear expansion – public protest can make it happen! |
| POLITICS Schumer, Jeffries blink…Senate, House to vote on War Powers Resolution next week to stop Trump’s criminal war on Iran . Democratic congressional leaders are working to stop War Powers Resolution opposing Trump’s criminal Iran war. |
| POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. “The Surgery of the World”: Netanyahu Arrives in Washington to Deliver the Final Blow to Diplomacy and Ignite a Major War. DOOMSDAY: The Suicide Pact Nobody Voted For. US-UK tech talks restart with a focus on nuclear projects– ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2026/02/28/3-b1-us-uk-tech-talks-restart-with-a-focus-on-nuclear-projects/ |
| SAFETY . ‘Making America Unsafe Again’: Alarm Over Environmental Review Exemption for Nuclear Reactors. UK regulators to begin formal assessment of TerraPower’s 345MWe sodium-cooled fast reactor. Nuclear power station workers ‘failed to ensure safety‘ after incident. Babcock CEO responds to Rosyth nuclear handling concerns. |
| SECRETS and LIES. National Endowment for Democracy leader cut off in Congress after boasting of ‘deploying’ 200 Starlinks to Iran amid violence. |
| SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. SpaceX and Blue Origin abruptly shift priorities amid US Golden Dome push |
| SPINBUSTER. The Innate and Inseparable Ties Between Nuclear Weapons and Energy |
| WASTES. Decommissioning. The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) group Strategy Effective from March 2026 |
| WAR and CONFLICT. Could Hungary’s fight over oil change course of Ukraine War? |
| WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. Hegseth Demands Anthropic Let Military Use AI However It Wants—Even for Autonomous Killer Drones and Spying On Americans– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CFkZOmAUFE The Bombs Which Polish the Skulls of the Dead. Nuclear waste leaks show the need for focus on renewables. Zelenskyy says he’d accept nuclear weapons from UK, France ‘with pleasure’ |
This week’s NOT the corporate nuclear-related news
Some bits of good news – Planting Billions of Trees Turned Barren Desert into a Carbon Sink That Lowers CO2.
Town Enthusiastically Switches to Restorative Justice and Reoffending Almost Vanishes.
Dramatic recovery of various fish species after California’s ban on trawling
TOP STORIES
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate.
What if Nuclear Deterrence was an Obsolete Concept?
Why can’t western leaders accept that they have failed in Ukraine?
Murica: US throws pennies at massive UN debt.
Climate. The Apocalyptic President. Donald Trump has revoked the official doctrine that carbon dioxide is a danger to human health. Brace for Trump’s brave new world of 1.7°C global warming.
The challenges in projecting future global sea levels. Excruciating tropical disease can now be transmitted in most of Europe, study finds.
AUSTRALIA.
- British submarine arrives for ‘extraordinary’ AUKUS visit.
- Submarine boasts, yet nuclear waste dumps submersed in secrecy.
- Radiation Protection -worker and public health protection standards at risk.
- China’s Retaliation: when will it happen
- Australia-based Bannerman Energy join China’s CNNC for debt-free construction of its Namibian uranium project.
- Australia’s culture of complicity.
NUCLEAR RELATED ITEMS
| ECONOMICS. A $33 billion nuclear bailout is coming to your electric bill. Cost of Hinkley Point C nuclear plant jumps again to nearly £50bn. – EDF has further pushed back the start-up of the UK’s flagship HinkleyPoint C nuclear plant. British taxpayers bankroll French nuclear giant while Hinkley Point C quietly receives 500-tonne reactor heart. Investigation: France’s future nuclear reactors could cost three times more than expected. Scotiabank subsidiary fully divests from Israeli arms firm. Nuclear power: EDF assesses the cost of reactor modulation for the first time (but its calculation is incomplete). |
| ENERGY. Why can’t people grasp that there’s much more to renewables than wind? |
| ENVIRONMENT. Major leak at Highland nuclear site triggers hunt for mystery bunkers. New Mexico Environment Department Holds LANL Accountable for Hexavalent Chromium Plume. |
| ETHICS and RELIGION. Pope Leo rejects Trump invitation to join Gaza ‘Board of Peace’ |
| HEALTH. DNA Mutations Discovered in The Children of Chernobyl Workers. Harrowing six final words of nuclear worker as his skin fell off during 83 days of agony. |
| LEGAL RAF Lakenheath protesters to face no further action. Further charges on health and safety offences at a nuclear construction site. |
| MEDIA. Fukushima review – a devastating account of disaster and denial in 2011 nuclear catastrophe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8HuMGIsiTo Ch4 doc shows Starmer’s ban on Palestine Action was done to protect the arms industry. DoJ Released Much More on Epstein’s Israel Ties—But Media Still Aren’t Much Interested. |
POLITICS. Democrats Aren’t Resisting Trump’s Iran War Because They Secretly Support It. A Dangerous Equation: Trump’s Iran Plans and the Democrats Who Expect to Benefit.
The Unelected Overlord: How Kushner Turned the White House into Israel’s Backroom Deal Den. Trump Team Didn’t Just Collude with Israel, Kushner was Acting as Foreign Agent for Tel Aviv.
POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.
- Iran will not bow down to US pressure in nuclear talks, Pezeshkian says. Iran war described as‘biggest opportunity’ at US oil lobby’s DC summit. No US War on Iran: An Open Letter to the UN Security Council. Very traumatic for whom Mr. Trump?
- The Veto May be the Weapon of Elimination in the Election of Next UN Chief.
- Rubio Declared a Return to Brutal Western Colonialism – and Europe applauded. Rubio at Munich: No More Guilt for Colonialism.
- More Shockingly Honest Confessions From The Empire Managers.
- No Netanyahu pushing to turn US into ‘slave state for Israel’s expansionist dreams’: Analyst
- Trump officials plan to build 5,000-person military base in Gaza, files show .
- 66 years of US sanctions and embargo degrading Cuba have become depraved under Trump.
| SAFETY. Ministry of Defence’s nuclear clean-up project brings new risks – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2026/02/22/3-b1-ministry-of-defences-nuclear-clean-up-project-brings-new-risks/ Massive military convoy carrying ‘nuclear weapons’ passes through Glasgow.. |
| SECRETS and LIES. The global elite in the shadow of Jeffrey Epstein. The Israeli Government Installed and Maintained Security System at Epstein Apartment. Why Epstein’s Links to the CIA Are So Important. Epstein, Yermak and Zelensky. Uranium Neo-colonialism in Mongolia: Crime but No Punishment. Beijing moves to contain Mossad’s expanding reach in Iran. |
| SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. Space-based missiles, killer robots key to U.S. effort to gain orbital dominance. |
| SPINBUSTER. Lies Of Omission As Fresh American War Crimes Loom. |
| TECHNOLOGY. Algorithms and AI have turned Gaza into a laboratory of death.Small modular nuclear reactors for developing countries: Expectations and evidence Open Access. Deep Fission Wins Fresh Investor Backing for Nuclear Reactor Burial |
| WASTES. “Dumping Radioactive Wastewater into the Hudson River” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxf4e1j5Zr4 |
WAR and CONFLICT.
Israel and American Hawks are pushing US to Iran War with Catastrophic Consequences. Munich Security Conference Evangelizes European War. The Ticking Time Bomb Looming Over Gaza, And Other Notes.
WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES.
- Proposed Saudi-U.S. deal could allow uranium enrichment, arms control experts warn.
- Trump buildup for war with Iran mimics George W. Bush’s buildup for 2003 Iraq war.
- German Chancellor urging France to beef up ‘Europe’s nuclear deterrent”.
- Air Force urged to build 200 B-21 bombers.
- What a naval ‘hellscape’ in the Pacific could actually entail: New Navy drone warship and undersea robot weapons.
The non-corporate nuclear-related news this week
Some bits of good news
France launches its largest ever rewilding project in the Dauphiné Alps.
Chile’s dark skies look set to stay that way.
Colombia Cedes Vast Amazon Land to Indigenous Peoples as Deforestation Surges
TOP STORIES.
As Landmark Treaty Expires, No Binding Limits on US-Russia Nuclear Arsenals.
The right to have nukes.
The Future of Los Alamos Lab: More Nuclear Weapons or Cleanup?
If You Think Our Rulers Do Bad Things In Secret, Wait Til You See What They Do Out In The Open.
Left to Bleed: How Israeli Forces Treat the Killing of Palestinian Children as Routine.
WANTED: Volunteers to host nuclear waste, forever.
Climate. These US states want polluters to pay for the rising insurance costs of climate disasters.
Noel’s notes. The complex, long-form writers – but is anybody listening?
AUSTRALIA. Aussie Flotilla Team to Gaza Announced. . In Australia The Police Beat You Up For Opposing Genocide. Selective context: Why Isaac Herzog’s visit deepens Australia’s moral failure. Albanese v Albanese.
For more see Australian nuclear-related news this week
NUCLEAR-RELATED ITEMS
| ATROCITIES. Israel Destroyed Gaza’s Hospitals – Now It’s Banning Doctors Without Borders. |
| ECONOMICS. Electricity: A confidential EDF report anticipates an explosion in costs and risks. |
| EMPLOYMENT. Nuclear weapons workers vote for strike action. Dounreay workers among 200 allowed to leave Nuclear Restoration Services’ UK in early exit scheme |
| ENERGY. Nuclear Power –A White Elephant in the Energy Debate. |
| ENVIRONMENT ‘Green laws hold up nuclear plans —but we can’t say where’– ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2026/02/14/4-b1-green-laws-hold-up-nuclear-plans-but-we-cant-say-where/ A Business Necessity: Align With Nature or Risk Collapse, IPBES Report Warns. Trump nixes nukes from environmental reviews. £700m plan with ‘fish disco’ could save 90% of marine life, says Hinkley Point C study. New Mexico Environment Department Takes Necessary Action on Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Hexavalent Chromium Plume. |
| ETHICS and RELIGION. Rot at the Top: The Elite’s Darkest Secrets Spill Out. |
| EVENTS. 19 February – VIRTUAL EVENT-Decision Time: AI and Our Nuclear Arsenal |
| HEALTH. Residential proximity to nuclear power plants and cancer incidence in Massachusetts, USA (2000–2018). |
| INDIGENOUS ISSUES. Submissions to the Federal Court of Appeal about UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) .Sizewell C opponents to appeal High Court decision. Palestine Action protesters found not guilty of Elbit burglary. |
| MEDIA. Leading PapersCall for Destroying Iran to Save It. Whitehaven’s Polluted Harbour is “Riviera of the North” NuSpeak Lives. |
| OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . An environmental coalition defends Environmental Justice (EJ) against the Canadian Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s (NWMO) latest Deep Geological Repository (DGR) scheme. |
- Is the UK keeping up with the nuclear revival? – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2026/02/14/4-b1-is-the-uk-keeping-up-with-the-nuclear-revival/ REVEALED: Labour said Scottish nuclear study could be seen as ‘waste of money’.
- France slashes renewable energy targets, expands nuclear power with new law.
- Japan Restarts Nuclear Power at Kashiwazaki Kariwa After 14 Years. Japan to restart world’s biggest nuclear plant on Monday.
- The West Bank- Israel’s atrocities in clear sight, but out of mind.
- Sixth Trump meeting with his de facto boss…good day to fire him.
- Our Leaders Couldn’t Fix Our Problems If They Wanted To (And They Don’t Want To). US Military Helping Trump to Build Massive Network of ‘Concentration Camps,’ Navy Contract Reveals.
POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.
- Russia says it will stick to limits of expired nuclear treaty if US does the same.
- Without an economic reset with Russia, a peace deal for Ukraine may render Britain and Europe weakened relics of a unipolar past.
- Collapsing Empire:US Bows To African Revolutionaries.
- Bad Beginnings:The End of New START. Last arms control treaty expires.
- Iran’s Comprehensive Peace Proposal to the United States. Trump warns Iran of ‘very traumatic’ outcome if no nuclear deal. Trump is not threatening war on Iran over its nuclear program, but because it challenges U.S. dominance. Has Trump been trumped by large, powerful, resolute Iran? Why Iran–US negotiations must move beyond a single-issue approach to the nuclear problem. Iran offers to dilute enriched uranium in exchange for full sanctions relief. Iran suggests it could dilute highly enriched uranium for sanctions relief.
| RADIATION. Shrimp with a side of cancer? – Radioactive contamination is real. |
| SAFETY. Russian nuclear agency insists it can run seized Ukrainian atomic power plant. France must start to plan nuclear closures – safety chief. |
| SECRETS and LIES. UK ignores corruption scandals when awarding major military contracts. |
| SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. Hegseth calls for U.S. space dominance. |
| SPINBUSTER. Ontario – Lecce’s nuclear spin –and the $3.3 billion he forgot to mention EDF makes distorted claims about Hinkley C fish deterrent. |
| TECHNOLOGY. US campaign puts case for disposal, not reprocessing, of used nuclear fuel. |
| WASTES. Hanford begins removing waste from 24th single-shell tank. |
WAR and CONFLICT.
- 66 years after France’s firstnuclear test in Algeria, justice is still denied.
- Eight Decades Later, It Remains One World or None. On the road to nuclear war. The risk of nuclear war is rising again- We need a new movement for global peace.
- Over 2,000 Britons served for Israel amid Gaza genocide.
- The Calculus of Conflict: How Russia’s Military Doctrine is Reshaping Modern Warfare .
- Department of War Partners With Department of Energy in Historic Nuclear Energy Initiative.
- Uncharted Nuclear Territory. People Are Not Upset Enough About the End of New START
- The 24-site US military network in Britain worth £11 billion.
The non-corporate nuclear news – week to 8th February
Some bits of good news
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The malaria vaccines are working. Toronto’s Don River was declared “biologically dead” decades ago — now fish are returning after a major wetland restoration. Australia returns an extinct frog to the wild after four decades.
TOP STORIES The Military’s AI Strategy Threatens Everything We Love.
Russia says will act responsibly despite New START nuclear treaty expiry.
The only remaining US-Russia nuclear treaty expires this week- Could a new arms race soon accelerate?
We Asked Two AIs What’s Driving the Doomsday Clock: The Answer Was Human Power.
I spent decades in energy -Here are the problems with UK nuclear plans – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2026/02/05/4-a-i-spent-decades-in-energy-here-are-the-problems-with-uk-nuclear-plans/
Small Modular Reactors: Game changer or more of the same?
The long half-life of France’s nuclear tests in Polynesia.
Climate. Europe feels the impact of weeks of wet weather and freezing cold. What Trump’s plans for the Arctic mean for the global climate crisis.
Noel’s notes. Beware these dangerous writers in the world of journalism.
AUSTRALIA.
- Why I Cannot Stand By: Protesting Israeli President Herzog’s Visit to Australia. Cancel Herzog tour; defy police intimidation. ISIS vs IDF- Selective justice and the fall of Australian law. Precarious Invitations: Israel’s President Isaac Herzog’s Visit to Australia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwRRuLQx5X8&t=36s Australia: HRF, Jewish Council and ANIC Demand Arrest or Entry Ban of Israeli President.
- US congressional report explores option of not delivering any Aukus nuclear submarines to Australia. Possibility of US ever selling Australia nuclear submarines is increasingly remote, Aukus critics say. Let’s stop pretending AUKUS makes us safer – ALSO AT https://antinuclear.net/2026/02/05/3-lets-stop-pretending-aukus-makes-us-safer/
- Southern suburbs residents call for City of Cockburn to be nuclear-free as AUKUS partnership rolls on.
- The Rules-Based Order: Where America Gets Away with Murder, and Everyone Else Gets the Bombs.
- As Trump Threatens Weekend Strike on Iran, Albanese Pretends Pine Gap Isn’t Complicit.
- The Opportunity Cost of Permanent War: How Australia is Bankrupting its future.
NUCLEAR RELATED ITEMS
| ATROCITIES. Why Trump’s Denunciations of the Iranian Killings Ring Fatally Hollow. |
| ECONOMICS. Britain courts private cash to fund ‘golden age’ of nuclear-powered AI. Will soaring electricity rates kill Ontario’s nuclear expansion? Ontario’s Nuclear Rate Shock Reveals a Deeper Affordability Problem. How Flexibility, Not Nuclear, Can Secure Ontario’s Electricity Future. |
| EDUCATION. University of Cumbria, Nuclear Waste, AI / Bitcoin and a Strange Tale of Tapping Epstein for Money.. |
| EMPLOYMENT. Mediterranean Dockworkers Launch Historic International Strike |
| ENVIRONMENT. Controversial plans for 139 homes on old Marchon site approved.Sellafield is Awash with Acid Chemicals – Rivers, Sea, Soil, Nothing is Off Limits for “Disposal” of This Toxic Brew Mixed with Dangerous Radioactive Isotopes at the Arse End of Atomic “Clean Energy”Harbour activity to increase at Sizewell C amid more work. |
| ETHICS and RELIGION. The Plutocrats Who Rule Our World Aren’t Even Enjoying Themselves.Hedonism’s Dance: How the Governing Classes Fell for Jeffrey Epstein.HerStory: Feminism is the Route to Peace. |
EVENTS. 9th February Protesting Israeli President Herzog
Stop the AUKUS nuclear submarines! Online public meeting Feb 11
12 February – Webinar The Big Push: New Nuclear Projects in Canada.
| MEDIA. The Media is Whitewashing Trump’s Board of Peace. “Journalism Deserves Better”: Ex-Washington Post Staffers Slam Billionaire Bezos for Gutting Paper. |
| OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . One year on, the Green party continues to voice concerns about the Last Energy Nuclear Power plant in the Llynfi Valley. From the ashes, arises a Phoenix: Scottish Nuclear Free Local Authorities resolve to chart a new path. |
| PERSONAL STORIES. Radiation – and a cancer ward, letter in this week’s Westmorland Gazette. |
| POLITICS. Lawmakers spark backlash with controversial fee imposed on residents: ‘Colossal financial risk. Labour backbenchers revolt over Starmer’s nuclear plans -ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2026/02/05/4-b1-labour-backbenchers-revolt-over-starmers-nuclear-plans/SNP rules out any new nuclear power plants in Scotland. ‘Deeply ideological’: the rationale behind Iran’s insistence on uranium enrichment. Malaysian Officials take action as concerns arise about nuclear power plants: ‘Preparing for that possibility’. Trump to Congress: “I don’t need your stinkin’ approval to fund Israeli genocide in Gaza” |
| POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. The U.S. occupation of Gaza has begun. Europe in Panic: Trump’s Power Play Shakes the World Order. In nuclear race with Russia, Trump goes back to a Cold War future. Sorrowful day for peace largely ignored thruout America. US and Russia negotiating New START deal – Axios. With Trump silent, last US-Russia nuclear pact set to end. Without START, everything could end. Sir Keir Starmer backs a USA strike on Iran. The US Keeps Openly Admitting It Deliberately Caused The Iran Protests .Iran says US nuclear talks off to ‘good start’ but draws line at missile, proxy issues. Trump says he believes Iran wants to make deal as he extols size of US ‘armada’. Is it time to replace NATO with EATO? |
| RADIATION.Finland detects small amount of radioactivity, sees no health impact |
| SAFETY. Trump slashing nuclear reactor safety and security rules. ‘Significant’ fire risks at nuclear plant site. |
| SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. NASA wants a nuclear reactor on the Moon – What would happen during a meltdown? Jeff Bezos and the audacious bid to put nuclear reactors on the Moon – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2026/02/04/jeff-bezos-and-the-audacious-bid-to-put-nuclear-reactors-on-the-moon/ |
| SPINBUSTER. No evidence to support US claim China conducted nuclear blast test: Monitor. Looking to Blame Anyone But Israel for Youth’s Anti-Israel Turn. Dissecting The Belief That The US Should Forcibly Remove Tyrannical Governments . A Nuclear Renaissance for Scotland? There’s a lot of hype around small modular reactors. |
| TECHNOLOGY.U.S. Tech Park in Israel May Have a Nuclear Power Plant .Iran’s mysterious Pickaxe Mountain a ‘candidate’ for new nuclear activities. Germany: Ministry of the Environment: Mini‑reactors [SMNRs] not an option . |
| WASTES. Northwatch Comments on the NWMO’s Initial Project Description of a Proposed Deep Geological Repository for High-Level Nuclear Waste. Comments on the Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada’s Used Nuclear Fuel Project December 2025 APM-REP-05000-0211 Growing stockpiles of radioactive waste beside the Ottawa River upstream of Parliament Hill causing widespread concern. Decommissioning. Impact Assessment of the Planned Dismantling of the Core of the Gentilly-1 reactor. Decommissioning of Gentilly 1. |
| WAR and CONFLICT. It is 85 seconds to midnight. Israel’s War on Iran – The Overkill No One Calls War |
| WEAPONS AND WEAPONS SALES. The new era of Israeli expansionism and the war economy that fuels it . Iran resumes activity at sites, satellite images show.Israel’s War on Iran: The Overkill No One Calls War. Trump’s $1.5 Trillion “Dream Military”. |
The past week in nuclear-related news
Some bits of good news – The Whimsical Floating Schools of Kashmir
Rural Communities Unite To Protect Their Immigrant Neighbors.
Australia’s clean energy transition is going better than almost anyone realises.
TOP STORIES.
UN watchdog warns Ukraine war remains world’s biggest threat to nuclear safety.
The UN is Being Undermined by the ‘Law of the Jungle’
The US Is Pushing So Many Regime Change Agendas It’s Hard To Keep Up. The ‘Peace President’ Who Bombed 10 Countries and Wants $1.5 Trillion for War – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Div95RNXX0M
The U.S. plan for Gaza has nothing in it for Palestinians. Trump’s October 10 ceasefire, Board of Peace, simply continues Israeli Palestinian genocide in slow motion. Greenland Is Not a Prize
Is Zelensky still the most reckless, dangerous leader in the world? They poisoned us‘: grappling with deadly impact of nuclear testing.
Another miserable year for nuclear power as renewables surge.
Climate. How climate change is threatening the future of Winter Olympics
Noel’s notes. Harsh realities in the world of journalism.
AUSTRALIA.
- The Afterlife of Failed Prime Ministers. The Preaching Pentecostal: Scott Morrison in Israel.
- United Israel Appeal- Charity channels tax free donations direct to IDF soldiers. Hate speech- Protecting Israel’s reputation in Australia just got cheaper.
- UK to deploy nuclear-powered submarine to Australia.
- ‘From day one, an absolute pleasure’: Nuclear science expert receives Australia Day honour.
- Australia’s New AUKUS Protest Police, and the Quiet Redefinition of Dissent.
- Australia’s Lack Of Speech Protections Means We Should Be MORE Hostile To Speech Regulation.
- *&^%$#@! / * Day Northern Water Desalination Plant.
NUCLEAR-RELATED ITEMS. To see nuclear-related stories in greater depth and intensity – go to https://nuclearinformation.wordpress.com/
| ARTS and CULTURE. The United States of Consumption. |
| EMPLOYMENT. From Net Zero to Nuclear: the skills gap that could stall UK growth. Fears raised that specialist Vulcan MoD work could shift to Sellafield |
| ENERGY. Is nuclear clean, renewable energy? Scottish communities need obstacles to local energy removed . |
| ENVIRONMENT. The War Intervention: AI, Data Centers, and the Environment. Fingleton Review UK: NGOs rail against controversial nuclear report ‘inaccuracies’. |
| ETHICS and RELIGION. The US’s Multi‑Front War: A House of Cards. No Healthy Person Wants To Rule The World Or Become A Billionaire. |
| EVENTS. Stop the AUKUS nuclear submarines! Online public meeting Feb 11. Follow No Nuclear Subs SA on facebook, instagram, X/Twitter |
| HISTORY. Michael Parenti (1933-2026): 1918. |
| LEGAL. Rubio Dodges Accountability at Senate Hearing as Deadly Boat Strikes Continue. Rambling Toward Chaos: Trump and the Nuclear Precipice. Tribunal says Swahili ban at nuclear firm was discrimination. |
| MEDIA. The BBC pushes the case for an illegal war on Iran with even bigger lies than Trump’s. After Trump Declared Gaza War ‘Over,’ Media Lost Interest. |
| POLITICS.What does the US want from Iran? Tracking one month of Trump’s changing demands. As Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ presses forward, Palestinians in Gaza fear what lies ahead. Is Trump a Useful Idiot?-Project 2025 Is in Power Now. Democrats vote to hand Trump hundreds of billions for immigration crackdown and global war. The ridiculous 2026 “National Defense Strategy“. Project 2025 : The Architecture of an American Upheaval. Inside Japan’s Controversial Shift Back to Nuclear Energy. |
| POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. Barring last-minute nuclear deal, US and Russia teeter on brink of new arms race. Resisting Trump. Europe Rides the Tiger: Jeffrey Sachs on NATO, Trump, and the Collapse of the “Rules‑Based Order Trump shamelessly plays the Russia/China bogeyman card for Greenland grab. The Global Billionaire Steal: Wealth, Authoritarianism and Media. U.S. Department of Energy signs additional OTAs to accelerate nuclear reactor pilot projects. |
| SAFETY. Since 2021, EDF has detected more than80 significant cracks on its French nuclear reactorsThe Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules.A High-Stakes Effort to Relax Radiation Limits and Restart Nuclear Growth. |
| SECRETS and LIES. Leaked Nuclear Secrets: China Arrests Top Military Leader Close to Xi Jinping. We are back in the Middle Ages’: How the EU literally starves dissenting experts like Jacques Baud. |
| SPINBUSTER. Artificial intelligence will not revive the nuclear industry. |
| TECHNOLOGY. Government by AI? Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence. |
| WASTES. Slow worms blamed for holding up Britain’s nuclear deterrent. |
| WAR and CONFLICT. Trump May Launch Strikes on Iran — Regime Change, Not Nukes, Is the Goal – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6913gyCwTQ Upcoming Trump attack on Iran likely to kill thousands of Americans and Israelis. It is now 85 seconds to midnight. Ukraine KILLED 5520 CIVILIANS in the Donetsk Peoples Republic alone since February 17, 2022, and KILLED 9894 DPR CIVILIANS since 2014 (not including Lugansk or elsewhere in Russia). The Gratuitous Barbarity of Trump’s So-Called ‘Board of Peace’. The Funeral of Hegemony. Aldermaston named on Russia nuclear war UK ‘strike list’. |
| WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. Doomsday Clock setting feels more like 8 or 7 seconds to midnight than 87 seconds. Over 2 Million Ukrainians Are Dodging The Draft. War is Silicon Valley’s new business. US military moves Navy, Air Force assets to the Middle East: What to know. A Note On the 2026 US National Defense Strategy and Extended Deterrence. Brian Goodall concerned about nuclear subs at Rosyth |
The mostly non-corporate nuclear news -week to 24 January
Some bits of good news
– How Community Solar Turned a Superfund Site into Savings in Illinois. How Hamburg Combats Loneliness With ‘Culture Buddies’How a Tiny Australian Town Relocated 500,000 Flying Foxes …and didn’t harm a single one.
TOP STORIES
.Every Nation in the World Should Reject Trump’s Absurd and Dangerous ‘Board of Peace’ . Kushner Reveals Dystopic Plan to Build Data Centers on Ruins of Gaza Genocide.
Betrayed: How Liberals Supported Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979 and Turned Against the Progressive Shah.
Guterres warns of ‘powerful forces’ undermining ‘global cooperation’.
Zionist Billionaires Openly Acknowledge Manipulating The US Government.
Europe Economic Panic.
Summary comments on the Deep Geologic Repository (DGR) Project for Canada’s Used Nuclear Fuel.
Climate. Anti-climate opinion columns becoming a regular feature in UK newspapers.
Noel’s notes. The brave journalists of the old-fashioned media.
AUSTRALIA.
- Australia should reconsider alliance with ‘fiercely unpredictable’ US, former foreign ministers say. Paul Keating’s words ring true.
- “We kill enemies”:Spy firm Palantir secures top Australian security clearance.
- Oppose Israel’s Abuses While You Still Can.
- They’re Trying To Sneak Israel’s President Into Australia Without Anti-Genocide Protests.
- Revealed: Australian taxpayers subsidising the IDF, illegal settlements in Israel.
- Parliament Passes New Hate Speech Laws, What It Really Means. Australia’s Frightening New “Hate Speech” Laws Are Clearly Aimed At Pro-Palestine Groups.
- How Did Australia Get Here?
- Sussan Ley tries to rewrite history.
- Australia’s worst heatwave since black summer made five times more likely by global heating, analysis finds.
NUCLEAR-related ITEMS
| ATROCITIES. A Cruel Truce: Israel’s Ongoing Demolition of Gaza. Deconstructing Trump’s Gaza ‘Peace’ Plan (w/ Norman Finkelstein) | The Chris Hedges Report. |
| CLIMATE. Who Needs CO2 to Heat the Planet When You Have Nuclear? |
| ECONOMICS. DAVOS: THE RULE OF THE RICH. |
| EDUCATION. Government funding for Saskatchewan SMR test facility. World’s Largest Nuclear Station or Lower Electricity Bills? |
| EMPLOYMENT. Fears raised that specialist Vulcan MoD work could shift to Sellafield |
| ENVIRONMENT. Why the Nuclear Regulatory Review is flawed – and how it could turn the nature crisis into a catastrophe. Nature groups question UK’s Fingleton nuclear review. Plans to ease nuclear build rules could spell disaster for nature, says Wildlife Trusts. |
| ETHICS and RELIGION. The Magic System Of Zionism. Zionism: The Etymological and Ideological Unpacking of a “Political Pathogen” |
| EVENTS. 31st January –Challenging the War Machine – a DECLASSIFIED UK SUMMIT. Mayors for Peace Joint Appeal. |
| LEGAL. The end of sovereign immunity: America’s new doctrine of capture. |
| MEDIA. Labeling Kidnapping a ‘Capture,’ Media Legitimate Violation of International Law. Everyone Wants Peace Until They Get Hit With The War Propaganda. |
| OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Canada’s Nuclear project with locals opposed will get federal review . |
| POLITICS. 15 years after Fukushima, Japan prepares to restart the world’s biggest nuclear plant. |
| POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. Trump Lashes Out At Norway Over Nobel Peace Prize In Latest Push To Annex Greenland. Russia Blasts US at UN Security Council Over Iran. The Regime Change Machine Is Turning on Iran Again. IAEA chief warns Iran nuclear standoff ‘cannot go on forever’. A Board of Peace built on the rubble of Gaza. Keir Starmer to rule over Gaza?Venezuela, the Revival of Regime Change. Netanyahu Is Visiting Trump For The FIFTH Time This Year, And Other Notes. Celebrating Five Years of the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty. |
| RADIATION. HIGH LEVEL NUCLEAR WASTE REMAINS UNAPPROACHABLE AND EXTREMELY TOXIC FOR HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF YEARS. Loosening radiation exposure rules won’t speed up nuclear energy production. |
| SAFETY. Today in History – January 24: Pure luck stops two nuclear bombs destroying US city. Chernobyl power plant LOSES external power supply after Russian attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, IAEA warns. Chernobyl cooling systems have lost power but meltdown risk is low. IAEA chief says nuclear accident risk in Ukraine outweighs fear of atomic weapons. Ukraine and Russia agree temporary ceasefire to allow repairs to Zaporizhzhia nuclear power line. TEPCO postpones 1st reactor restart since Fukushima due to alarm trouble. Nuclear reactor owned by Fukushima plant operator TEPCO to shut down again hours after restart. Britain to extend life of ageing nuclear plants to keep the lights on-ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2026/01/22/2-b1-britain-to-extend-life-of-ageing-nuclear-plants-to-keep-the-lights-on/All the president’s yes-men? |
| SECRETS and LIES. Welcome to the Peace IPO: Gaza, Rebranded as a Prospectus.Iran & Israel Secretly Agreed Not To Attack Each Other Through Russian Backchannel.60 years since the Palomares nuclear disaster – “The residents were constantly misinformed”.The Mirage of the Enemy: Deconstructing Contemporary Media Bias.Nuclear lapses overshadow reactor restarts in post-Fukushima Japan – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2026/01/24/1-b1-nuclear-lapses-overshadow-reactor-restarts-in-post-fukushima-japan/The secret nuclear influencer in the heart of Moscow. |
| SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. This country wants to build a nuclear power plant on the moon. |
| SPINBUSTER. 3 Myths About the Shah of Iran — “Dictator, CIA Puppet, Brutal”. |
| WASTES. What Canada’s nuclear waste plan means for New Brunswick.Trump Could Offer Deals to U.S. States to Store Nuclear Waste. Trump offers states a deal to take nuclear waste. |
| WAR and CONFLICT Is the end now in sight for the war in Ukraine? All Unquiet on the Ukrainian Front. Danish MP Warns US Takeover of Greenland Will Start a War. It wasn’t Trump’s mind or morality that stopped his Iran attack. US Evacuating Some Troops From Middle East Bases as It Considers Attacking Iran. US aggression.UK support: The ‘special relationship’. |
| WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. As Trump Uses Military to Threaten Democracy, NYT Declares Military Needs More Resources. Study reveals ‘persistent danger’ from Israel’s white phosphorus strikes in southern Lebanon. |
The non-corporate nuclear news this week
Some bits of good news –Ocean treaty “a landmark victory” for the high seas.
Australia is getting a new national park. Montana Program Makes Youth Offenders Talk with Their Victims and Recidivism Plummets.
TOP STORIES
Trump’s foreign policy: “I don’t need international law because I’m not looking to hurt people”
Caitlin Johnstone: You Know They’re Lying About Iran.
The New German Warfare State.
Who is to blame for blocking a new ‘golden era’ for nuclear power?
Democratic Leaders Silent on the Impeachment of Donald Trump.
This Nuclear Renaissance Has a Waste Management Problem. Nuclear power’s hidden $1 trillion problem – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKIaRg3SdTw
The Coalition of the Willing has achieved nothing.
Climate. Results are in for one of the clearest measures of global heating in 2025– It should be raising alarm bells.
Noel’s notes. The new world of journalism. Raw, Rude, and Angry – in the new world of journalism.
AUSTRALIA. The War On Free Speech In Australia Is Getting Cartoonishly Absurd. Aftermath of the Bondi massacre. Political Futures: Stronger Progressive United Front to Broaden the Hate Speech Legislation.
The biggest Propaganda Campaign in Australian History? The West Report .
Australia’s Response to US Intervention in Venezuela.
Clearas a bell. Australia’s Geopolitical Tightrope.
NUCLEAR RELATED ITEMS.
| ART and CULTURE. Dazed and confused in North America. |
ATROCITIES.
100 days into ceasefire Gaza still deliberately deprived of water as aid groups forced to scavenge under illegal blockade . Here’s who really weaponizes children in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
ECONOMICS.
- How New Venezuela President Will Save Us from Trump’s Crazy. Oil Companies Are Key Partners in Trump’s Imperial Plans for Latin America.
- Ontario Power Generation seeks rate increase for electricity from nuclear plants- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2026/01/16/1-b-1-ontario-power-generation-seeks-rate-increase-for-electricity-from-nuclear-plants/ Ontario utility wants to double the asking price of nuclear, while US wants reactors on the moon.
- Donald Trump calls for emergency energy auction to make tech giants pay for AI power.
- TerraPower and Meta partner on Natrium nuclear plants.
| EMPLOYMENT. Fears raised that specialist Vulcan MoD work could shift to Sellafield |
| ENERGY. Wind is certainly not the only renewable power source in Scotland. |
| ETHICS and RELIGION. The Flotillas to Gaza Are the World’s Conscience. |
| EVENTS. 31 January. London Challenging the War Machine – https://secure.declassifieduk.org/page/180663/event/1 |
| INDIGENOUS. Navajo lands at risk |
| LEGAL. Militant Zionist Group Ceasing Operations In New York FollowingSettlement with Attorney General. Challenge to Latest Sellafield Discharges to the Rivers Calder, Ehen and the Irish Sea. |
| MEDIA. Billionaire’s Mouthpiece Searches for Reasons to Avoid Taxing Billionaires.Whitewashing U.S. barbarism by smearing Russia and China. Genocide isn’t a mistake- Which is why the media can’t tell you the truth about Gaza. “Another Monroe Doctrine”: Journalists Warn U.S. Strikes on Venezuela Signal a New Era of Intervention. The plastisphere: a world choked by plastic. |
POLITICS.
- Trump names son-in-law, Rubio, Blair to Gaza ‘Board of Peace’. Founders of Deadly Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), ‘Shaping’ New US-Backed Administration for Gaza: Report.
- Reza Pahlavi vows to recognise Israel, end nuclear programme if he led Iran.
- Spectral Threats: China, Russia and Trump’s Greenland Rationale.
- Senate Republicans edging toward War Powers Resolution to curb Trump’s crazed Venezuelan war. Senate rejects Trump’s military threats against Venezuela with war powers vote.
- Sanctions, Strategy and Spin: Venezuela Lobbying Soars Under Trump.
- ‘Uninvestable’:Oil execs rebuff Trump’s demands for $100bn investment in Venezuela.
- Zelensky makes another move to avoid election.
- Do the Democrats Have the Guts to Outflank Trump on Defense Industry Looting?
- Spending big on nuclear.
- Sizewell C injects nearly £1bn of tax-payers’ money into East of England as construction hits two-year milestone.
- ‘Wall of money’ to invest in Scottish nuclear power if Labour win election.
POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. President Trump Urges Iran Protests To Continue, Says ‘Help Is on Its Way’.
Is the U.S. preparing to install another Shah to run Iran as a U.S. puppet?
You Can’t Cheer For Regime Change In Iran Without Also Cheering For The US Empire.
Netanyahu Is Visiting Trump For The FIFTH Time This Year, And Other Notes.
“Condemning US imperialism for its illegal invasion and violation of sovereignty.”- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2026/01/13/2-b1-condemning-us-imperialism-for-its-illegal-invasion-and-violation-of-sovereignty/
Russia says it awaits US response on ‘important’ issue of expiring nuclear treaty.
Somaliland: Longtime Zionist Colonisation Target.
It’s time to stop talking about the “denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula” and instead focus on halting U.S. militarism in the region.
| SAFETY. Chubu Electric to Face On-Site Probe over N-Plant Data Fraud. Bill Gates-backed‘Cowboy Chernobyl’ nuclear reactor races toward approval in Wyoming. |
| SECRETS and LIES .Chubu Electric’s data fraud ‘undermines’ Japan’s nuclear energy policy .Revealed: The CIA-Backed Think Tanks Fueling The Iran Protests. From Musk to TikTok: How AI Fakes Fueled a Disinformation Frenzy Around Maduro. Candid Imperialism: Trump, Racketeering and Venezuelan Oil. HOW ONTARIO KEEPS THE TRUE COST OF NUCLEAR POWER OFF YOUR HYDRO BILL. The Nobel Peace Prize, Re-Gifted (Peace Through Strength™ Edition). |
WAR and CONFLICT.
- US Surging Military Assets To the Middle East To Prepare for War With Iran After Trump Postpones Attack
- On the Eve of Destruction: Has His Majesty’s Madness for War Led His Loyal Supporters Astray?
- Cuba Vows to Defend Itself Against Trump to ‘The Last Drop of blood.
- Venezuela today.- Greenland tomorrow?
- Biden knew Ukraine would lose proxy war with Russia….provoked it anyway.
WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES.
- British Ministry of Defense developing ballistic missile for Ukraine to make “deep strikes into Russia”.
- Report: Military Tells Trump It Needs More Time to Prepare for War With Iran.
- ‘Vomiting blood’: Witness claims US used powerful mystery weapon during Maduro raid.
- New owners of Canadian Nuclear Laboratories have extensive nuclear weapons connections.
- Lost Opportunities toHalt Rising Military Spending.
- Faslane nuclear base tugboats may be built in China.
This week in non-corporate nuclear news
Some bits of good news – Attenborough Showcases Wildlife Thriving in the Capital Coming soon: a national park at ‘the end of the world’ A renewables conundrum was cracked.
TOP STORIES. “President of the World”is not a joke – it’s a warning.
US 21st Century regime change ops: Failure, Failure, Failure, Failure, Failure… To Be Determined.
Japan’s ‘most dangerous’ nuclear power plant admits to manipulating earthquake safety data.
The French Resistance at Bure: the campaign to oppose a nuclear waste dump.
New Imperial War: The U.S. Assault on Venezuela Exposes a Desperate Empire.
Climate. Trump Abandonment of Global Treaties, Including Landmark Climate Deal, ‘Threatens All Life on Earth’
. ‘These disasters are not ‘natural”: Heatwaves, wildfires, droughts, and storms cost more than $120bn in 2025. Microplastics are making it harder for oceans to absorb greenhouse gases, study warns.
AUSTRALIA.
- When demanding a Royal Commission isn’t enough. Royal Commission Must Rise Above Politics: Global Flotilla’s Juliet Lamont. Labor’s Bondi Backflip: When Fear Trumps Justice.
- Revealed: Australia’s secret Anti-Protest Force for US Department of War.
- Are nazis in Chris Minns hate speech sights … or just Palestinian peace protestors?
- The Media’s Role in Manufacturing Consent in US-Venezuela Relations. The Venezuela Playbook: How Australian Media Sold Us Another War.
NUCLEAR-RELATED ITEMS
| ATROCITIES. Genocide in Gaza, Apartheid in the Palestinian West Bank: UN Report. ‘Year of bloodshed’: West Bank authorities record nearly 24,000 army, settler attacks on Palestinians in 2025 |
| CLIMATE. It is not the Earth’s future at stake in the climate crisis – it is ours. |
| ECONOMICS. Top 15 US Billionaires Gained Nearly $1 Trillion in Wealth in Trump’s First Year. The cost of America’s nuclear revival – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2026/01/09/1-b1-the-cost-of-americas-nuclear-revival/ Meta Is Making a Big Bet on Nuclear With Oklo1 . Microsoft wants to resurrect Three Mile Island – It will never happen. Following U.S. coup in Venezuela, the CIA’s former station chief is advertising support for corporate exploitation of the country’s oil |
| EDUCATION. Academic Freedom on Life Support: Trump’s War on Knowledge Exposed |
| EMPLOYMENT. Fears raised that specialist Vulcan MoD work could shift to Sellafield |
| ETHICS and RELIGION. Impunity: Venezuela, Palestine, and the End of International Law. Pope Leo again condemns “zeal for war,” deepening rift with Trump. |
| LEGAL. Former SNC-Lavalin CEO stripped of his licence, fined $75K over corruption breaches. Report: Nuclear Power Isn’t Viable In Hawaiʻi |
| MEDIA. Editorial Boards Cheer Trump Doctrine in Venezuela.Bombshell: A Story of Truth in the Face of Censorship. |
| OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Three things ICAN is looking forward to in 2026. |
| SAFETY. Watchdog halts nuclear plant safety review after seismic data found to be fabricated. Japanese nuclear power station rocked by 6.2 magnitude earthquake. New UK roads police team for major construction work |
| SECRETS and LIES. CIA Played Instrumental Role in Maduro Kidnapping. |
| SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. Caught between Trump and Musk’s rockets, a Mexican village despairs. |
| URANIUM. US DOE Awards $2.7B for Uranium Enrichment in Nuclear Power Push. |
| WAR and CONFLICT.‘We’ll Hit Them Very Hard’: Trump Threatens Iran Again as Iran Protest Death Toll Rises. Analysts Warn Venezuela Invasion Could Empower Trump to Take Actions Elsewhere. Fears of Wider War Over Venezuela Oil as US Seizes Russian-Flagged Tanker. Venezuelan leader Maduro lands in New York after capture by US troops – live. J effrey Sachs: U.S. Attacks Venezuela & Kidnaps President Maduro – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhZuTOuwKGA |
| WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. Plunging Toward Armageddon: U.S. and Russia on the Brink of a New Nuclear Arms Race. Babcock to provide dock for new Dreadnought nuclear subs: will they be carrying nuclear weapons? After more than 20 years without sailing, a Russian nuclear giant returned to the sea, and the most disturbing detail is not its size. |
Nuclear news at the start of 2026
Best wishes for 2026. I know that I should start with something positive. And there are positive things happening, and millions of people working on them. As Anne Frank said so long ago “I believe that people are really good at heart”
Nevertheless, I feel like sounding a note of warning.The mainstream news is barely to be trusted. Journalists are self-censoring so as to hang on to their jobs. “Social media” is all too often anti-social, and is not fact-checked.
Now, going back to my original purpose – the nuclear-free movement,I now feel impelled to start 2026 with this advice:Be especially sceptical of any information derived from the nuclear industry. At best, even where it’s factual, still take it with a big grain of salt.
Some bits of good news – The renewables juggernaut thundered on. Scientists treated the ‘untreatable’.
Uganda rapidly got on top of an Ebola outbreak – all stories from – https://www.positive.news/society/what-went-right-in-2025-the-good-news-that-mattered/
TOP STORIES. Exposing the World Nuclear Association’s Bullshit.What Lies Ahead for Ukraine’s Contested Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant?
Palestine Before Nationalism: What Was Lost – and Why It Matters Now. UN Security Council Abandoned Palestinians- Humanity Must Refuse to Follow Suit. Israel Bans Dozens of Aid Groups from Operating in Gaza, Including Doctors Without Borders. Israel’s Ceasefire Violations in Gaza Continue to Pile Up –
AUSTRALIA.
Israel Bans Aid Groups and Puts Targets on Australian Backs | The West Report –https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9mjGsCU6QU How Zionists are weaponising the courts to silence critics | The West Report – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_175A8ws4ak In Australia it is taboo to speak up for Palestinians, Australia being the only Western country that has no free speech, no Bill of Rights. The Embedded Alliance – Australia, The Retreat from Sovereignty, and the Machinery of External Control. A Statement of Omission.
NUCLEAR-RELATED ITEMS
| ATROCITIES. As Israel bans aid orgs in Gaza, notorious mercenary firm seeks “Targeter”. |
| ECONOMICS. Mini nuclear reactors are already losing their glow. Investors Beware: 2 Nuclear Energy Stocks That May Be Radioactive to Your Portfolio |
| EMPLOYMENT. Fears raised that specialist Vulcan MoD work could shift to Sellafield |
| ENERGY. AI Did Not Demand Centralised Power: Vested Interests Did. |
| ETHICS and RELIGION. Israel And Its Supporters Deliberately Foment Hate And Division In Our Society. The Pro-Israel Propaganda Complex. Catholic diocese urges prayer, public witness against proposed nuclear plant in northern Philippines. |
| HISTORY. When the USSR and China saved humanity: How they won the World Anti-Fascist War. Chris Hedges: Decline and Fall. |
| LEGAL. Pike County mom sues revived nuclear plant, alleging radiation led to daughter’s death. |
| POLITICS. U.S. Plans Largest Nuclear Power Program Since the 1970s . Donald Trump’s first step to becoming a would-be autocrat –hijacking a party. Secretary of State Rubio Believes U.S. Recovered Alien Tech And Gave It To Private Military Contractors. Palestinian factions have come together to thwart Israeli plans in Gaza, for now. Energy bills to rise on New Year’s Day ‘to fund nuclear in England’. Dungeness power station tipped for nuclear return as government ‘aware’ of interest. |
| POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. Russia-US nuclear pact set to end in 2026 and we won’t see another. Poor, beleaguered Venezuela, with new pals China and Russia, may be demolishing two century old US Monroe Doctrine. Trump reaffirms his support for another strike on Iran after meeting with Netanyahu. Trump’s team no longer trusts Netanyahu – Axios. Netanyahu to Press for ‘Another Round of War With Iran’ in Meeting With Trump This Week. Netanyahu Is Visiting Trump For The FIFTH Time This Year, And Other Notes. ‘Pay price for wrongdoing’: China Sanctions 20 US defence firms after Trump approves Taiwan arms sale. Trump, Zelenskyy make ‘95% progress’, but ‘thorny issues’ remain – 5 key points. The West is spending big on nuclear plants again – and taking taxpayers along for the ride– ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/12/31/1-b1-the-west-is-spending-big-on-nuclear-plants-again-and-taking-taxpayers-along-for-the-ride/ Patrick Lawrence: New Year’s Notes on Purported Leaders. |
| PLUTONIUM. Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety (CCNS) Nuclear Literacy Program to Educate Nuevomexicano Communities on the LANL Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Plutonium Pit Production. |
| SAFETY. Safety fears as Japan prepares to restart nuclear plant ‘built on tofu’. Trump regulators ripped |
| TECHNOLOGY. The AI Arms Race Is Cracking Open the Nuclear Fuel Cycle. Electric Vehicles and Nuclear Power Are Fighting Over One Obscure Mineral. |
| WASTES. How are geological repository projects progressing (pronuke bias) |
| WAR and CONFLICT. Russia Hands US Evidence That It Says Confirms Ukraine Targeted Putin’s Residence in Drone Attack. Trump Praises Putin, Promises Peace—Kyiv Still Under Fire. CIA, with Trump’s blessing, is using Ukrainians to sabotage Russia’s energy infrastructure and oil tankers – NYT. WAS RUSSIA’S SPECIAL MILITARY OPERATION “UNPROVOKED”? |
| WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. Russia claims to have moved nuclear-capable missile system into Belarus. Russia ‘Confidently Advancing’ In Ukraine, Over 30 Settlements Captured In December. Ukraine Takes Part in NATO War Games, Further Integrating Into Collective Defense Architecture. Pentagon In Panic: China Just Delivered The Final Blow– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEa9E9vhQ0U.The Trillion Dollar War Machine (w/ William D. Hartung) T he Chris Hedges Report. Why talk of a Japanese nuclear option is resurfacing – and why it alarms critics |
The non-corporate nuclear news, week to 27 December
TOP STORIES.
Trump’s Nuclear Obsession.
Palantir’s Palestine: How AI Gods Are Building Our Extinction.
The Sovereign Hook – How Australia and its Jewish Community are Played in a Foreign Game.
Gun vs Keffiyeh- One kills, the other gets you death threats.
“Make Iran like Gaza”: Chilling insider view from Israel weapons expo.
Israel Is Preparing for a Permanent Presence in Gaza,
Satellite Images Reveal. Fukushima Now (29) – Part 1: What Constitutes Responsibility?
Climate. Out of a superhero movie: Companies are coming up with plans to block out the sun.
ECONOMICS. It was blindingly obvious that Europe wasn’t going to agree to the reparations loan.
EDF faces the financial equation: Bernard Fontana is considering massive asset sales to generate 20 billion euros –
Instead of buying Venezuelan heavy crude…Trump just steals it.
Trump row threatens to delay Britain’s nuclear renaissance
Trump’s Son-in-Law Pitches$112B Tech Utopia on Gaza Rubble. Profiting From Genocide .
Studsvik Calls Extraordinary Meeting to Add UK Nuclear Executive Julia Pyke to Board. EU launches inquiry intoCzech funding plan for new nuclear. Sweden’s VattenfallSeeks State Funding for New Nuclear Reactors. Politico: Despite the war, France will build nuclear fuel in Germany with the help of a Russian company. Trump Floundering Efforts to Shore Up US Hegemony. Turkey Makes Another $9 Billion Bet on Russian Nuclear Power.
EMPLOYMENT. Fears raised that specialist Vulcan MoD work could shift to Sellafield
ENVIRONMENT. UK’s largest planned data centre ‘could use 50 times more water’ than developer claims. Biodiversity Net Gain: can developers be trusted?
ETHICS and RELIGION. Why Are Pedophiles the Most Successful Capitalists?
HISTORY. European Russophobia and Europe’s Rejection of Peace: A Two-Century Failure. The Real Story Behind the Russia–Ukraine War—and What Happens Next.
LEGAL. Keir Starmer’s attempt to send Abramovich’s billions to Ukraine is illegal. The Problem with Machado: Assange Sues the Nobel Foundation
MEDIA. How reporting facts can now land you in jail for 14 years as a terrorist.
OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . 15 years after Fukushima disaster locals fear return of Japan’s nuclear power.
PERSONAL STORIES. One excavator, 10,000 bodies, a sea of rubble: inside Gaza’s effort to retrieve and bury its dead.
POLITICS. Israeli Cabinet Approves 19 New Apartheid Colonies in Occupied West Bank.
Japan set to restart world’s biggest nuclear power plant. Former Japanese PM Ishiba again criticizes remarks advocating nuclear armament. Hiroshima urges Japanese government to uphold non-nuclear principles.
Japan set to restart world’s biggest nuclear power plant. Former Japanese PM Ishiba again criticizes remarks advocating nuclear armament. Hiroshima urges Japanese government to uphold non-nuclear principles.
Iran, UK foreign ministers discuss nuclear issue in phone call. Hawai‘i Has a Rare Opportunity to Reclaim Land From the US Military.
The 2025 nuclear year in review: Back to the Future Atomic Age. India’s Dept of Atomic Energy seeks sops to put nuclear power on a par with renewable energy.
POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. Kushner, Witkoff draft $112B proposal to develop Gaza into ‘smart city’ with luxury resorts.
Report: Netanyahu To Ask Trump To Support Another Attack on Iran. Global nuclear arms control under pressure in 2026. Iran rejects inspections of bombed nuclear sites without IAEA framework.
RADIATION. Canada’s double standard on tritium emissions
SAFETY. Warning Chernobyl nuclear plant radiation shield is at risk of collapse.
Incident. Radioactive substance leaks from Fukui nuclear power plant in Japan. Occupied and Imperiled: Charting a Path for Zaporizhzhia’s Nuclear Future.
SECRETS and LIES. The EU’s top diplomat casually rewrites WWII history on her way to WWIII. 58 Years of Occupation — And the Shocking Report Israel Doesn’t Want You to Read
SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. Trump orders return to Moon by 2028, lunar base with nuclear power by 2030. Russia wants to build a nuclear power plant on the moon in the next few years .
TECHNOLOGY. Why Nuclear Fusion Will Not Solve the AI Power Problem. Scottish Government urged to intervene in Edinburgh AI data centre plans.
The Reality of SMR Timelines for AI Data Centers: A Veteran’s View.
URANIUM. Canada must acknowledge the implications of selling uranium to India.
WASTES. The cost of eternity. UK to restart nuclear submarine defuelling in 2026.
WAR and CONFLICT. Trump’s Peace? More Like Bombs, Blockades, and Bullying. US Launches Christmas Strikes on Nigeria—the 9th Country Bombed by Trump. The“President of Peace” Prepares for War.
Israeli Cabinet Approves 19 New Apartheid Coloniesin Occupied West Bank. Israeli Occupation Intensifies: Defense Minister Vows Permanent Gaza Presence as Settler Violence Escalates in West Bank. Netanyahu plans to brief Trump on possible new Iran strikes.
WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. Europe’snuclear sites on high alert for drone threats in the year ahead . Israel’s growing role in Taiwan’s air defense alarms Beijing. France is to build a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier that will be the largest warship in Europe.
How Corporations View (and Own) the U.S. Military. Trump Announces Nuclear-Armed Battleships for the U.S. Navy. Revealed: Trump’s secret $264 million plot to put nuclear doomsday weapons in Britain to face down Putin. $264million scheme could transform RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk into a nuclear facility.
1 This month
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes – A good documentary on Chernobyl on SBS available On Demand for the next 3 weeks– https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-program/chernobyl-the-lost-tapes/2352741955560
15 April – Zoom –Nuclear Power is Not the Solution
Apr 15, 2026 01:00 AM in Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney
Join the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) on Tuesday, April 14th for a timely webinar exploring the risks associated with nuclear power and challenging the myth that it offers a simple, safe, carbon-free solution to the climate crisis
21 April Webinar: No Nuclear Weapons in Australia
Start: 2026-04-21 18:00:00 UTC Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney (GMT+10:00)
End: 2026-04-21 19:30:00 UTC Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney (GMT+10:00)
Event Type: Virtual
A virtual link will be communicated before the event.
Host Contact Info: australia@icanw.org
of the week – Australians for War Powers Reform (AWPR)
To see nuclear-related stories in greater depth and intensity
Antinuclear 