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Non-corporate nuclear-related news – week to 14 June

Some bits of good news –   How To End A War: Lessons from Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Juan Manuel SantosMangrove forests stage a comeback. French Polynesia Protects Biodiverse Ocean Area Twice the Size of Arizona Teeming with Life

TOP STORIES. Reactor reboot at world’s largest nuclear plant highlights flaws in Japan’s radioactive waste plans.Is America ready for a nuclear explosion in space? 
‘Burn for us’: The real message of US-EU ‘nuclear sharing’.
 FIFA, Eurovision expelled Russia but Israel has Impunity.
Chas Freeman: The Greater Israel Project Is Collapsing Under the Weight of Endless War.
AI to double data centre power and water consumption by 2030, UN researchers say.

Climate. Record winter temperatures in Antarctic raise fears over speed of climate breakdown

AUSTRALIA.

• Technology unravels strategy and the weakness of AUKUS 
• AUSTRALIA’S SECRET EMBRACE OF U.S. NUCLEAR PLANNING 
• SUBMISSION: Radiation protection for workers and members of the public under AUKUS.
• Freedom Of Information to die? Albanese’s nuclear strike on transparency. 
• From the archives – Freedom Of Information win as Information Commissioner rebukes Defence secrecy. 
• Resisting radioactive racism in Australia. 
• Nuclear test survivor’s daughter calls on First Nations communities to speak up on AUKUS   
• Greens warn nuclear submarines deal risks war with China as Albanese says Aukus ‘full-steam ahead’ .  
• Investigating the Foolish: The AUKUS Public Inquiry is Announced. 
• More Australian news at https://antinuclear.net/2026/06/07/australian-nuclear-news-week-to-13-june/

NUCLEAR-RELATED ITEMS

ECONOMICS.

• We economists have done the maths: ‘growth’ is a doomed strategy – there is a better way.
• Rolls-Royce strikes nuclear deal with Japan, likely to be tax-payer funded – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2026/06/14/6-b1-rolls-royce-strikes-nuclear-deal-with-japan-likely-to-be-tax-payer-funded/
• Campaigners demand answers over Sizewell C costs and completion date. Are the Sizewell C financing arrangements a model for other European countries? Sizewell C to move work offsite ‘as much as possible’ amid skills crisis. Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) defends Sizewell C funding which puts risk on taxpayer. – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2026/06/12/5-b1-department-for-energy-security-and-net-zero-desnz-defends-sizewell-c-funding-which-puts-risk-on-taxpayer/
• United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) commits £20M to UKI2S fund for fusion innovation .
• Screwed again: small investors to bail out billionaires from SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic. 

MEDIA.

• Western Media Normalize Ethnic Cleansing of Lebanon by Viewing It Through Israel’s Eyes.
• Media’s Ceasefire Fiction Masks Continuing War.
• Revealed: USAID, National Endowment for Democracy & Open Society Quietly Bankroll Cuba’s “Independent” Media In Push for Regime Change.
• Honorable Mention to “HIBAKUSHA – WANDERING SOUL“ 

POLITICS.

ROSATOM report.

Trump’s Sedition Act for Israel.

Fusing the US Military and the Israeli Defense Force 

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.

• The view from Moscow: The future of nuclear arms control exists, but the path is hard.
• IAEA board passes resolution demanding Iran report uranium stocks.
• Is the Ceasefire Dead? (w/ Alastair Crooke) -The Chris Hedges Report.
• The Gazafication of Lebanon: How Israel Exports Destruction and Washington Protects It.
• Trump news at a glance: president claims Iran ‘no longer want a nuclear weapon’ amid peace deal hopes.
• 𝐍𝐄𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐘𝐀𝐇𝐔’𝐒 𝐆𝐀𝐌𝐁𝐋𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐍 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐒 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐒𝐎𝐋𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐈𝐃𝐃𝐋𝐄 𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐓.
• ‘The Humiliation Just Compounds’: Trump Tells Netanyahu Not to Bomb Iran, Then Israel Strikes Anyway. Trump and Netanyahu: The odd couple.
• Why Europe Embraced Authoritarianism For Israel.
• International People’s Tribunal (IPT) invites representatives of the United States Government and the Government of the Republic of Korea to participate in Proceedings on Korean Victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombings. 

RADIATION. NUCLEAR HOTSEAT. Women, Children At Greatest Risk from Nuclear Radiation – UN Report by Mary Olson, Dr. Amanda M. Nichols 

SAFETY.

• No electricity at Zaporizhia nuclear power plant after attack, IAEA says.
• Experts Warn Against Handing Impact Assessment of Nuclear Projects Over to Captured Regulator.
• Shipment of nuclear waste from Sellafield heads to Germany, raising safety concerns.
• UK to Extend Life of Sizewell B Nuclear Plant by 20 Years !
• The timeline for restoring operations at the Chornobyl nuclear waste storage facility following Russian shelling remains unknown – IAEA . Power returns to Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant after prolonged outage, IAEA says.
• Incidents. IAEA warning after drone hits used fuel facility near Chernobyl. Another deadly explosion casts shadow over Hanwha Aerospace’s cutting-edge image

WAR and CONFLICT.

• US Begins Another Round of Attacks on Iran.
• War crime -US ‘precision strikes’ cut water access to 20,000 people in southern Iran.
• Putin Powerfully Rebuffed The Hawks Who Want Him To Attack NATO.
• Russian drone hits nuclear fuel site near Chernobyl – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2026/06/12/5-b1-russian-drone-hits-nuclear-fuel-site-near-chernobyl/
• Battle for Kiev 2022: The Battle That Never Was [i]. 

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES.

Nuclear weapons spending surges to record high of $119bn, report says .

Britain has become third-largest nuclear weapons spender – CND. UK overtakes Russia as Labour hike nuclear weapon spend by 17 per cent. UK Navy nuclear submarine fleet stuck in dock while awaiting maintenance.

North Korea will never give up its nuclear weapons, says Kim Jong-un’s sister. Kim Jong Un vows to build nuclear-armed navy with ‘secret underwater weapons‘ as he tours warship with his daughter. 

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

Nuclear-related news – not the corporate versions

Some bits of good news –The largest ever private sector school meals commitment will feed 366,000 children across East Africa.   

British beavers stop underground station flooding – As floods get worse,Britain Tries a new solution: beavers. 

The French City That Champions Its Trees

TOP STORIES.

 An Open Letter to Chancellor Friedrich Merz – for peace in Ukraine – Jeffrey Sachs.

Arming for extinction: Barbarism With Better Software: Pope Leo Warns of the AI Future 
The climate cost of militarism – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2ZUrzGohCI

The Trump administration’s reckless attack on radiation protection will have long-term consequences for public safety.

Climate Global heating is making hajj ever more dangerous, report finds.                    Global temperatures to reach near-record highs in next five years, report finds.      Extreme Heat Headlines Obscure The Scale Of The Crisis.

AUSTRALIA. 

• Nuclear powers are expanding their arsenals instead of disarming- Australia doesn’t have to be complicit in this. 
• The Sound of Silence: Australia’s Complicity in the Face of Evidence. 
• The Suicide Note: How Australia is Dismantling the Journalism it Needs to Survive. 
• “Don’t mention the genocide”

NUCLEAR-RELATED ITEMS

MEDIA.

• Warmongers Keep Generating AI Atrocity Propaganda About Iran.
• From Occupation to Erasure: How Legacy Media Failed Gaza.
• With .potential Iranian deal on the horizon, MAGA media’s drawing red lines
• Trump’s government-wide NDA (non disclosure agreement) seeks to silence whistleblowers. 

POLITICS.

• Inside the broligarchy: Is big tech running US politics? Carole Cadwalladr talks to DW News.
• The False Promise of Nuclear Power: Why Scotland Doesn’t Need New Nuclear.
• The Israeli Knesset just voted to dissolve itself, but this won’t end the Gaza genocide
• It’s the genocide, stupid.
• Israel has a master plan to relocate thousands of Palestinian Bedouins to a giant ghetto . 

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.

 Can the Imperial Core Be Reformed? Chris Hedges and Aaron Maté on the Collapse of the Global Order.

Cuba Is Not a Failed State – It Is a Besieged State.

Time for US to deescalate confrontation with China over Taiwan.

Trump’s Retaliatory Withdrawal: America Punishes Europe for Refusing to Join Its War with Iran. 

May 31, 2026 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter | Leave a comment

Antidotes to the media-nuclear-military-corporate-complex news this week

Some bits of good news – 27 years after their existence was confirmed, Brazil has begun demarcating land for one of the Amazon’s most vulnerable uncontacted peoples.   

A community saved an English river. ‘David Attenborough Effect’: Meet the wildlife artists inspired by the legendary broadcaster

Significant story of the week – Media Myopia As We Hurtle Towards Climate Oblivion.

TOP STORIES. 

Nobody Sincerely Believes Cuba Threatens The United States. 
A national analysis of the impact of proximity to nuclear power plants on lung, breast and colon cancer mortalities in the U.S., 2000–2020. 
The American epoch of oil is collapsing. What comes next could be ugly.

The Nuclear Lie at the Center of U.S. Foreign Policy 

The Aging Empire versus Slowing Empire: Trump-Xi Meeting.
 128 years of US exploitation, degradation of Cuba continues on steroids – Walt Zlotow.
 Labour accused of making nuclear sector ‘more dangerous’ after capture by ‘vested interests’. 
Death will kill with its poisonous wings 

Climate. Media Myopia As We Hurtle Towards Climate Oblivion. Heatwaves in high 40 degrees Celsius are ‘new normal’ for India and Pakistan, scientists warn.

Noel’s notes. Will there be global war over Taiwan? – Sociology matters.         Why does Substack, like everyone else, want me to put an App on my phone?

AUSTRALIA.

Israel Kidnapped Gaza Flotilla Activists, A Father Demands Answers | The West Report. 

Israel Is Running Australia and No One Is Talking About It.

NUCLEAR-RELATED ITEMS

ARTS and CULTURE. The West’s Descent Toward Totalitarianism. 

ECONOMICS. Spending watchdog warns £38bn cost of Sizewell C nuclear plant is ‘risky’   Power from Sizewell C will be more expensive than Hinkley Point, says UK watchdog
5 Stocks That Benefit From the Government’s $94 Million Spending Spree on Nuclear Reactors – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2026/05/21/1-b1-5-stocks-that-benefit-from-the-governments-94-million-spending-spree-on-nuclear-reactors/

Questions grow in Belgium over plan to nationalize Engie nuclear plants.. 

EDUCATION. Trump Describes Executions to Kids, While MAGA Bans Lessons Causing “Discomfort” . 

WAR and CONFLICT. World War Trump (everywhere, Somalia too)

• Fading western imperial war$ on Iran, Palestine, Lebanon, Cuba & more.
• Pentagon quietly shut legally required program to prevent civilian deaths by military, watchdog finds.
• From Asia to the Middle East, US Bombs Are a Failed Foreign Policy Choice.
• Strike near UAE reactor revives concerns over nuclear plant safety in wartime.
• UAE blames Iran or proxies for strike near nuclear plant, as Trump tells Tehran ‘clock is ticking’. The United Arab Emirates said a drone strike caused a fire at the perimeter of its Barakah nuclear power plant.
• Epic Interruptus: The Iranian Snare and American Defeat.
• How Russia signals nuclear resolve with civilian nuclear energy infrastructure. 

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES.

White Elephant in Space: The Extortionate Expense of Golden Dome. Golden Dome or Golden Scam?

Russian nuclear weapons, 2026.

‘He asked if I would defend them’: Trump shares key details of Xi meeting.

Biden left Trump a poison pill that sabotaged his criminal Iran war,

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

The non-corporate nuclear news – week to 10 May

Some bits of good news – 

India is skipping China’s coal boom, and heading directly for green energy. 

Scottish seabeds rebound after trawling bans.Teenage pregnancy rates have fallen across the world.‘

TOP STORIES.

Combatants must address root causes to end Ukraine, Iran wars. 

Has the US accepted Iran’s demand to settle Hormuz first, nuclear later?

Sachs on U.S. Power in Freefall: “The Most Dangerous Country in the World”

Oil, Empire, and the Price of War: How Energy Became the Ultimate Weapon– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh-E3q6tGEw

Nuclear Scaling Requires Discipline
– Small Modular Reactors Deliver Fragmentation.

Climate. Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere just hit a ‘depressing’ new record.

Environment. The Plague of Plastic: The other Petroleum Curse

Peace  – Mother’s Day Pivots to Peace

AUSTRALIA. 

• Why Palantir Australia Sparks Growing Privacy Fears. 
• Women Deliver Conference – Glimmers of hope amid the doom and gloom? – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnVgG63apzg 
• The IDF Kidnapped and Assaulted an Australian Citizen in International Waters | Michael West media. 
• Toxic fantasy nuked; one year on from the Federal election.
•  Antisemitism. The Royal Conflation Commission is in session. 
• Israel: The most dangerous nation on Earth.

NUCLEAR-RELATED ITEMS

POLITICS.

• Yukon and Ontario and SMRs – Memorandum of Misunderstanding?
• America’s Suicide Pact.   
• INTERVIEW: There are two crazy individuals here, Trump and Netanyahu.
• PATRICK LAWRENCE: Trump’s Trap, Trump’s Sanity.
• Genocide Is Still The Political Test That Matters.
• Labour and SNP row over submarines at Rosyth Dockyard
• Starmer plan to relax nuclear regulation opposed by Holyrood. 

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.

• “Existential”: Israel Quadruples Foreign-Influence Budget To Massive $730M.
• A Nobel Effort: Parliamentary call for common security and nuclear disarmament.
• “Anti-diplomacy” rules in Europe.
• Epic Nonsense: Trump Shelves Project Freedom. Trump’s New Iran Negotiator Is Israel Lobbyist Who Denounced Negotiations With Iran.
• Rapid escalation.
• Iranian proposal rejected by Trump would open strait before nuclear talks, Iran official says.
• Common Security as a credible alternative to nuclear deterrence. 

WASTES.

• A small northern Ontario town refused radioactive waste-It’s gone to Sarnia instead.
• Will the Trump administration’s ‘nuclear campus’ plan break the US nuclear waste gridlock?
• Britain is creating a mountain of nuclear waste it doesn’t know what to do with– ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2026/05/07/1-a-britain-is-creating-a-mountain-of-nuclear-waste-it-doesnt-know-what-to-do-with/
• “We are waiting for Nuclear Waste Services to Come Up with Recommendations on Siting….”

May 12, 2026 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter | Leave a comment

Nuclear-related news – week to 2 May

Some bits of good news –  
Nightingales coming back to England     
An infectious eye disease was eradicated in Australia.  57 governments gathered for the first
 conference on transitioning away from fossil fuels.  
(These 3 articles come from Positive News – a helpful. positive resource)

TOP STORIES. 

Adi Roche: My nightmare is that the next Chernobyl event occurs at Chernobyl itself.
Yanis Varoufakis on Palantir and its 22 points.
Charles III and Britain’s pathological obsession with Russia. 
Genocide—and Complicity: Washington Insider Says the Word They Avoid – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iCZtbIPmss 
From the 1953 Coup to Today: Jeffrey Sachs Explains America’s Endless War on Iran.

Climate. Hope is contagious and science is king: 10 big lessons on ending the fossil fuel era. Nations have chance to break ‘fossil fuel mindset’: Mary Robinson. 

Toxins plus climate harms likely cause of reduced fertility, study finds.

Noel’s notes. If scientific facts are uncomfortable to us, well don’t worry – they can be changed.

AUSTRALIA.How AUKUS is Becoming the Largest Wealth Transfer in Australian History – and Why the Government Won’t Tell You the Cost.

 UK parliament’s AUKUS inquiry report questions if Britain can keep nuclear submarine promises.

 Antisemitism Royal Commission dilemma: not all Jews think the same. 

The Enforcement- The lobby that bought Australian democracy. Antisemitism and Israel: A challenge to the Australian narrative.

Australia’s “Antisemitism Envoy” Makes It Clear That Israel’s Critics Are The Real Target. 

More Australian news at https://antinuclear.net/2026/04/28/australian-nuclear-related-news-week-to-2nd-may/

NUCLEAR-RELATED ITEMS

POLITICS.

• What are Palantir’s 22 points?
• Entire NSF science advisory board fired by Trump administration.
• Key US science panels are being axed — and others are becoming less open.
• Dangerous and expensive, nuclear power is a dead end for Scotland – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2026/05/02/4-b1-dangerous-and-expensive-nuclear-power-is-a-dead-end-for-scotland/
• Why should Scotland wait 15 years for nuclear power we don’t need?
• UK nuclear industry in lobbying blitz ahead of Scottish election – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2026/04/29/1-a-uk-nuclear-industry-in-lobbying-blitz-ahead-of-scottish-election/
• Rosyth councillor Brian Goodall wants public consultation on Trident nuclear submarines. 

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.

• Iran’s Supreme Leader Says It Won’t Give Up Nuclear Assets In Rare Public Statement.
• State Dept. spills the beans…’Bibi made Trump do it’
• Starmer’s Talking Points: King Charles III Visits Washington.
• In the Strait of Hormuz, Iran Is the Pretext—China Is the Target.
• Jeffrey Sachs: Trump’s Failure in Iran Exposes the Crumbling Myth of U.S. Hegemony.
• American “Micro-Militarism: Or How Defeat in the Iran War Will Accelerate American Global Decline.
• A new nuclear arms race is accelerating – There’s only one way to stop it.
• Can the NPT Keep Nuclear Weapons from Spreading? (MBN)

May 4, 2026 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter | Leave a comment

Much non-corporate nuclear-related news this week

Some bits of good news   –   When Flotillas Fight for Life, Not Empire.  The Verdant Refuge of India’s India’s Sacred Groves.   Near Philadelphia’s New Green Spaces, a Dramatic Reduction in Crime.

TOP STORIES. Regulating the regulators: How the nuclear power industry steers the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Big Tech Is Rushing Into Nuclear Energy, and Bypassing Safety Oversight.

Ceasefire Announced-Destruction Continues- The Illusion of Peace in Lebanon.
A Case for War?- Iran’s Non-Existent Nuclear Weapons Program.
Nuclear costs of the Iran War.

40 years from Chernobyl disaster – What happened to the heroes – and villains – of Chernobyl. 

Climate. Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought. Sea-level rise is a health crisis and we must hold polluters accountable.

AUSTRALIA The Apocalypse Salesman: How Richard Marles Sold Australia’s Future to the Permanent War Economy.

More Australian news at https://antinuclear.net/2026/04/18/australian-nuclear-news-headlines-this-week/

NUCLEAR-RELATED ITEMS

LEGAL. The collapse of multilateral law and the confusion of the battlefields.

MEDIA.

• Chernobyl’s 40-year legacy: haunting photographs from the radiation zone.
• New York Time’s Investigation of How Trump’s War on Iran Started Leaves Out the Paper’s Own Silence.
• Israel Destroys a Synagogue; US Media Yawn.
• Israeli Journalist With Deep Ties to IDF Admits West Bank Violence ‘Looks Like… Ethnic Cleansing’ .
• US’s Erosion of the Right to Cartoon Is No Laughing Matter.

OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR Greenham Women’s Peace Camp: The forgotten protest against nuclear weapons that lasted 19 years.

CND opposes new contract to build nuclear reactors on Anglesey- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2026/04/17/1-b1-cnd-opposes-new-contract-to-build-nuclear-reactors-on-anglesey/

POLITICS.

• First new planned US nuclear reactors likely to get government loans, energy chief says.
• Congress A-OK with Trump murdering thousands in Iran and crashing the world economy.
• Swedish taxpayers to take on the burden of financing nuclear power.
• Trump/Newsom Attack Renewables and Push Nuclear.
• “‘This war is the result of a coup.’” 
• Israel is losing its grip on U.S. politics.
• Not clear there is public appetite for nuclear energy in Ireland despite fuel crisis, junior minister says.
• Proposed Scottish nuclear study unlikely to be published before election.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.

• Iran rejects Trump claim on deal to surrender nuclear material stockpiles.
• Trump says Iran agrees to hand over ‘nuclear dust’ -ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2026/04/18/2-b1-trump-says-iran-agrees-to-hand-over-nuclear-dust/
• Trump prefers collapsing world economy to admitting defeat in his criminal Iran war.
• It seems Washington needs to be reminded of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
• Amid the Iran chaos, war over Taiwan just became less likely.
• Netanyahu Doctrine: How one man’s war addiction is consuming Israel, Lebanon, and the World.
• US Aims at Heavy Staff & Budgetary Cuts for United Nations, Seeks to Launch Cost-Saving Artificial Intelligence at UN meetings.
• They Always Tell You Why The Empire Uses Violence, But Never Why Its Enemies Do.

WAR and CONFLICT.

• TRUMP SAYS “ENOUGH”—BUT ISRAEL PUSHES ON IN LEBANON WAR LATEST.
• Mass Destruction in Southern Lebanon as Israeli Forces Use ‘Gaza Tactics,’ Level Villages.
• THIS IS NOT SELF-DEFENSE’: UN EXPERTS BLAST ISRAEL’S ASSAULT ON LEBANON AS WAR CRIME.
• Israel May Be Preparing to Permanently Reoccupy Southern Lebanon.
• Will Trump nuke Iran?
• Ceasefire Exemptions and Quarries of Death: Israel’s War on Lebanon.
• Normalizing zionist terrorism against Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Iran.
• THE WAR THEY STARTED—AND LOST: HOW THE U.S. AND ISRAEL TRIGGERED A CRISIS THEY CAN’T CONTROL
• A conflict of attrition: Iran’s bet on asymmetric warfare.
• The Art of the Deal Is War.

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. America’s pro-Israel J Street says Israel should pay out-of-pocket if it wants US weapons.

Horror as Russia ‘plans nuclear weapon in space’ that could cause global chaos.

April 20, 2026 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter | Leave a comment

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

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.

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.

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

April 12, 2026 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter | Leave a comment

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.

ECONOMICS.   

• 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.

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.

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.

April 5, 2026 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter | Leave a comment

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

March 23, 2026 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter | Leave a comment

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