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Nuclear news – week ending 7 June

Coronavirus –  India records 100,636 new cases, tally hits 28,909,975

Climate crisis to shrink G7 economies twice as much as Covid-19, says research.
Chernobyl Guards Have Befriended Abandoned Dogs, Feeding Them and Bringing Medical Care,    I00-Year-Old Galápagos Giant Tortoise Found on Fernandina Island is Indeed Member of ‘Extinct’ Species, (but this is a ”good news – bad news’‘ story)

On the nuclear scene, while not a lot is actually happening, in nuclear weapons countries,  the determined nuclear weapons push continues, most politicians seem to have been well and truly bought by the industry.
With an eye to the November Climate Summit meeting in Glascow, the nuclear lobby revs up its push for small nuclear reactors, or indeed, any, nuclear reactors as the climate cure.

• The nuclear lobby’s desperate push to be included in COP26. Nuclear lobby spins its frenzied propaganda – with  flimsy arguments for new nuclear power.  Only renewables — and not nuclear power — can deliver truly low-carbon energy.
  ‘‘Fallout: The Hitoshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World”Ice sheets melting, ocean currents, and the risk of climate tipping points.
  The Rio de Janeiro International Uranium Film Festival 2021 has awarded two film-makers on nuclear disarmament issues.
• JAPAN. Fukushima waste water dumped in Pacific Ocean – a critical environmental issue threatening marine pollution.
• USA. 
  •  Biden Dangerously Accelerating the New Cold War with China. Pentagon’s creepy shift from nuclear deterrence to the use of nuclear weapons. President Biden’s budget backs new nuclear weapons, contradicting his policy while campaigning. Progressive Democrats slam Joe Biden’s about-face on nuclear weapons spending. 
  •  Exelon and NRG share prices fall as U.S. nuclear power firms to be hit by plunge in grid payments. 
  •  The transition to clean energy is held back by subsidies to the nuclear industry.
  •   Elevated cancer deaths in Monroe may be result of nuclear plant. 
  •  Production of new plutonium triggers at Savannah River Site to mean more radioactive trash for South Carolina
  • Assange’s Father on US Tour, includes Minneapolis/St. Paul.
  • UK. 
  • Launch of bigger Stop Sizewell C campaign in UK. 
  •   Lakes Against Nuclear Dump (LAND) call to Boris Johnson for a moratorium on the push for ”Delivery of a Geological Disposal Facility”. 
  •   Critique No 1 of BBC documentary Building Britain’s Biggest Nuclear Power Station. Critique No 2 of BBC documentary Building Britain’s Biggest Nuclear Power Station. Critique No 3 [a boys-with-toys view] -BBC documentary Building Britain’s Biggest Nuclear Power Station. 
  •  Old nuclear grinding to a halt in Britain. 
  •  Secret papers reveal the British spying on Scottish anti-nuclear activists, who were labelled as ”terrorists”.
  • PACIFIC ISLANDS. Pacific Islands forum wants answers on the effects of Japan’s Fukushima waste water to be dumped into the Pacific Ocean
  • .CHINA. China warns of ‘nuclear showdown’ with the United States. China again urges Japan to revoke decision to dump nuclear wastewater
  • GERMANY. Germany’s search for a nuclear waste solution.
  • CANADA, Debunking myths about the Chalk River Mound nuclear waste plan
  • .FRANCE. France’s government criminalises anti nuclear activists.
  • BELARUS. European Commission worried that Belarus will start the Astravets nuclear power plant without the recommended EU safety guidelines.
  • AUSTRALIA. Australia’s nuclear waste policy shambles. Australia’s Climate Change Authority now taken over by the nuclear lobby, and influenced by ”secret society” of nuclear promoters. 

June 7, 2021 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina's notes