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

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.

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.

March 9, 2026 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter | Leave a comment

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

March 1, 2026 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter | Leave a comment

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

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.

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.

February 24, 2026 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter | Leave a comment

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       

POLITICS.

• 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.

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 .

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES.

• 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.

February 15, 2026 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter | Leave a comment

The non-corporate nuclear news – week to 8th February

Some bits of good news 
– 
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

EVENTS.  9th February Protesting Israeli President Herzog

s Visit to Australia.

Stop the AUKUS nuclear submarines! Online public meeting Feb 11

12 February – Webinar The Big Push: New Nuclear Projects in Canada.

February 9, 2026 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter | Leave a comment

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/

February 1, 2026 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter | Leave a comment

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

January 25, 2026 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter | Leave a comment

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? 

The Non-Peaceful Atom. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

January 18, 2026 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter | Leave a comment

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

January 10, 2026 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter | Leave a comment

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.

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January 3, 2026 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter | Leave a comment

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.

December 28, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter | 1 Comment

The non-corporate nuclear news – week to 13 December

Some bits of good news – 

What Happened When Tennessee Unleashed Its River. 

Giving Away Money Is Good for You.  

1 Million Turtle Nests Counted on India’s Coast– ‘Crazy High’ Number is 10x More Than Decades Ago

TOP STORIES.

Nuclear power will never be “beneficial”. 

Britain’s nuclear submarine fleet ‘no longer fit for purpose’-ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/12/09/1-a-britains-nuclear-submarine-fleet-no-longer-fit-for-purpose/ 

When it all comes crashing down: The aftermath of the AI boom. 

Israel’s biggest con trick: Hiding the true numbers it has killed in Gaza.                           U.S. Military Budget Bill Would Ramp Up Israel Aid to Fill In ‘Gaps’ When Other Countries Impose Embargoes Over Genocide. 

The Moral Urgency of Compromise in Ukraine.

Climate. Climateflation: the food system in crisis.

Environment. UN environment report ‘hijacked’ by US and others over fossil fuels, top scientist says.

AUSTRALIA. 

• Marles’ new Defence agency – rearranging deck chairs on the HMAS Titanic. 
• The people and environment of South Australia must be protected from Federal imposed storage of AUKUS High-Level nuclear waste. 
• The Colby Review, AUKUS and Lopsided Commitments. 
• Segal Secrets: docs reveal Antisemitism Envoy’s big pay day. 
• Will the lights go out if we don’t have baseload? – “No, absolutely not,” say those whose job it is to keep them on.

NUCLEAR-RELATED TOPICS

ECONOMICS.

• Cashing in on war: Why stealing Russia’s assets actually makes things worse for the EU.
• Reeves’ £150 cut in UK’s energy bills will be nuked by Sizewell costs, ex-Labour donor claims.
• Japan pulls out of Vietnam nuclear project, complicating Hanoi’s power plans.
• American-owned consortium assumes control of Canada’s premier nuclear research facility.
• Why this nuclear energy stock could face a meltdown in 2026. South Carolina’s abandoned nuclear plants could be revived as company offers $2.7 billion.
• Oil and gas industries join with nuclear to fight renewable energy.
• Nuclear power?- Its account is (almost) OK.
• Schemes of Bankruptcy: The United Nations, Funding Dues and Human Rights.

December 13, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter | Leave a comment

Non-corporate nuclear-related news – week to 7 December

Some bits of good news- A roadmap for ending plastic pollution was published. Antarctica’s shrinking ozone hole ‘signals hope’. One Year Later: A Dam Removal and a River’s Rebirth,  The Nationwide Movement Turning Guns into Garden Tools

TOP STORIES.What Defeat Looks Like.

Russia Dangles Business Ties To U.S. at Europe’s Expense – Kremlin pitched White House on investments and industry to end war – today’s Wall Street Journal.

Von der Leyen pushes ahead with reparations loan for Ukraine as Belgium maintains its opposition.

Trump’s AI Push May Hinge on Renewable Energy.

Climate. What’s behind the massive death toll in floods across Southeast Asia –and why it should serve as a warning.                                         ‘Deeply disappointing’: Experts slam Cop30 for ignoring climate’s impact on food supply.

Noel’s notes. Why my work is clearly biased. The obscenity of Christmas, and how to fix it?

AUSTRALIA. 

Australia’s New Censorship Is Voluntary – and That’s Why It’s Dangerous.

The Moral Hazard of Being US Deputy-Sheriff . 

No fog, no war – Hegseth’s war crimes put Australian soldiers at risk. 

US submarines carrying nuclear weapons could dock in Australia despite ban, Senate told. 

Labor backs ‘practical’ nuclear disarmament, Wong says. 

Government backflips on nuclear-capable submarines under AUKUS . 

The architecture of a vassal: how US bases in Australia project power, not protection.

Follow the money – A radioactive farce of failed land purchases. 

Australia’s most advanced renewable grid is its most secure, but NSW must scramble as it nears “no coal” scenario. 

South Australia averages 100 pct wind and solar over week, 90 pct over last 28 days. 

Solar and wind reach 100 pct of demand in biggest isolated grid, as batteries allow it to keep its thermals on. 

NUCLEAR TOPICS

ATROCITIES.
 Gaza Denied the Right to Heal: Ceasefire Fails, New ‘Green-Zone’ Plan Threatens Modern Ghettos and Collective Imprisonment.  International tribunal finds Israel guilty of genocide, ecocide, and the forced starvation of the Palestinians in Gaza. 

A Ceasefire in Name Only: Gaza’s Prolonged Purgatory.  Amnesty: So-Called Gaza ‘Ceasefire’ becoming Smokescreen for continued Israeli Genocide

ECONOMICS.

• Europe could be on the hook for $160 billion to keep Ukraine afloat.
• UK energy bill payers will hand £2bn a year to EDF for new power stations.
• Former Heads of CIA, MI5, Mossad and CSIS Profit From Israel’s Genocide.
• Russia’s economy is not about to explode..

MEDIA. Earth’s Greatest Enemy, the second feature film project by Abby Martin, is a groundbreaking anti-imperialist environmental documentary –https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rphBWk15_h4

Ah, Good Old War Propaganda.

MAGA media scramble to defend Pete Hegseth. 

PERSONAL STORIES. Israel Is Quietly Expanding Its Occupation of Gaza Under Cover of “Ceasefire”

December 8, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter | Leave a comment

Non corporate-nuclear-military-politics-media-complex news this week

Some bits of good news  –    

Nations hatched a plan to abandon fossil fuels   

 Rewilding in Scotland‘s Highlands   

Crop yields soar thanks to solar panels. 

The Nationwide Movement Turning Guns into Garden Tools.

TOP STORIES.

The Nuclear Cult. 
Confronting The Media’s Gaza Group-Think.

Security Council Shamefully Grants Colonial Domination Over Palestine to the US.

Nuclear’s Costly Comeback Meets Harsh Market Reality.

What? Peace in Our Time in Ukraine?                                   Zelensky to Trump on US peace plan: ‘No peace with Russia till we win back all lost territory’– ALSO AT……    https://nuclear-news.net/2025/11/25/3-a-zelensky-to-trump-on-us-peace-plan-no-peace-with-russia-till-we-win-back-all-lost-territory/  

From the archives. Millions of fish killed this winter at Bruce Power nuclear plant

Climate. Beyond the negative headlines, some truly good things came out of Cop30.              How the United Nations has under-predicted the rate of global temperature rise.                     

‘It’s like arguing with robots’: negotiators on the state of Cop30 talks.                COPout 30 Backpedals on Climate Action.                                                               Fossil Fuels at COP30: Sacred, Profane and Unmentioned.

AUSTRALIA Water is under pressure in the Great Artesian Basin – ALSO AT https://antinuclear.net/2025/11/23/water-is-under-pressure-in-the-great-artesian-basin/                        

Nuke Submarine ‘community consultation’                                                                                  PORT ADELAIDE COMMUNITY OPPOSING AUKUS (PACOA)SUBMISSION TO ANI CONSULTATION.            

Michael West Media scoops the prize pool in the 2025 Walkey Awards-(SATIRE)

NUCLEAR TOPICS

ART and CULTURE. Palestinians Will Not Let the Genocide Kill Their Hopes: The Forty-Seventh Newsletter (2025).

ENVIRONMENT. Attacking nature protections with fudged figures is not the solution to slow growth: rivers charity responds to Hinkley Point C report. 

UK’s new nuclear body urges scrapping nature protections for new projects. 

Does ‘fish disco’ show we’re dancing to the wrong tune on regulations? – ALSO EXTRACT AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/11/27/1-b1-does-fish-disco-show-were-dancing-to-the-wrong-tune-on-regulations/

Officials make alarming discovery outside of shutdown nuclear facility: ‘Significant’. 

New Mexico Environment Department Requires Los Alamos National Laboratory to Stop All Injection Operations into Regional Drinking Water Aquifer.

December 1, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter | Leave a comment

A long list of nuclear news this week

Some  bits 0f good news  Egypt becomes the seventh country in the Eastern Mediterranean Region to eliminate trachoma as a public health problem.  

Colombia bans all new oil and mining projects in its Amazon.
TOP STORIES. Trump’s new radiation exposure limits could be ‘catastrophic’ for women and girls. 

How Holtec International became an expanding (and controversial) nuclear power -(long, but worth it) 

The Invention of “Ethical AI”.

UN Security Council Gives US ‘Mandate’ Over Palestine . 
Israel’s unrelenting, underreported ethnic cleansing of West Bank Palestinians.

Climate. Pledges to triple renewables, reduce methane and double efficiency will deliver huge climate savings.

AUSTRALIA.

• ‘Inadequate’: Audit call on $368bn AUKUS cost estimate. 
• Australia Flags Indians Over $368 Billion Nuclear Submarine Espionage Fears: Did “Qatar Fiasco” Play A Part? 
• Coalition of the unlikely: How Australia and China could save the planet. 
• What Australia can learn from China to become the world’s ‘cleaner’ rare earth refiner. 
• ABC News advances its alliance with Murdoch’s Sky News. 
• Supporting genocide- Australian funds risk breaking international law.

TOPICS

SECRETS and LIES.

The Censored History of Able Archer 83. Nuclear waste today; consumer products tomorrow?

Ukraine’s energy sector corruption crisis – what we know so far and who was involved.  US senator accuses Trump of ‘silence’ on huge Ukraine corruption scandal. 

The scandal Zelensky can’t escape: Inside Ukraine’s biggest corruption story. Zelensky remains a creature of the corruption plaguing Ukraine.             Ukraine’s ‘EnergyGate’ scandal explained: Why it spells danger for Vladimir Zelensky.

Emails Reveal Epstein’s Ties to Mossad—But Corporate Media Looked Away.

The Palestine Laboratory: Exporting Occupation Technology (w/ Antony Loewenstein) | The Chris Hedges Report.

November 24, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter | Leave a comment