The non-corporate nuclear news – week to 8 September

Some bits of good news – Solar is taking off across Africa in a big way. Green energy approvals smash records in the UK. Golden eagle chick ‘a symbol of hope’ in Scotland.

TOP STORIES.

The World Has Failed to Stop Israel: Our Only Choices Now: Leave or Die. Is Israel quietly expanding its nuclear arsenal? Satellite images raise suspicion.

The world moves on without Trump.

Nuclear power is failing, and AI can’t rescue it.

Climate. These countries are sinking into the sea: What happens when they disappear forever? World’s largest iceberg is finally about to disappear 40 years after breaking away from Antarctica.

AUSTRALIA. SSN AUKUS – Heading for a quagmire (Part II).

Nuclear likely to remain part of Coalition’s energy policy as Dan Tehan warns Australia risks being left ‘stranded’.

NUCLEAR ITEMS.

ECONOMICS.

EDUCATION. Extra funding revealed to fuel nuclear fusion energy training and research.

ENERGY. Nuclear outpaced fourteen to one by wind and solar in Europe. Japan shocks the world — Solar panels as strong as 20 nuclear reactors unveiled..

ENVIRONMENT. Why are saltmarshes such effective carbon sinks?
Widened recall of radioactively contaminate shrimp.
Is fishmeal from Fukushima-affected fish the source of Indonesian shrimp’s radioactive contamination?
Jellyfish cause partial shutdown at French nuclear plant.

EVENTS, 26 September – Nuclear Abolition Day – International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

HEALTH. Will Cancer Prove to be Another Weapon in Israel’s War in Gaza?Nuclear-armed states should come clean after 80 years of nuclear testing harm.

OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . “We gave for France… now that’s enough”: La Hague residents reject Orano’s nuclear pools project. A Folly Too Far?

POLITICS.U.S. Government Is Taking Historic Steps To Restart Nuclear Plants. South Carolina’s dormant nuclear volcanoes. Trump supports nuclear power as it is ‘more American’ than wind, solar, US official says.Trump Is Renaming the Defense Department the Department of War. Nuclear roadblocks – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/09/07/2-b1-nuclear-roadblocks/ Donald Trump orders ‘take down’ of 44-year-old peace vigil opposite White House.UKRAINIAN NEOFASCISM – War Time Developments: Part 1 ‘Azov’ and Part 2 ‘Right Sector’.Fukushima and the Politics of Nuclear Disaster Recovery.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.
One by one, leaders learn that grovelling to Trump leads to disaster: When will it dawn on Starmer?
China’s SCO Summit Highlights West’s Growing Ideological Isolation, + Zelensky’s Desperate Gambit.
Coalition of the unwilling gets stuck in Groundhog Day.
NATO. has outlived its purpose – Jeffrey Sachs.
Russia is ready to discuss nuclear fuel at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia with US – RIA.

The NEW, new world order.
The U.S. visa cancellations for Palestinians marks another step towards West Bank annexation.
Nuclear crisis looms as Iran faces sanctions snapback, expert warns. Iran FM Araghchi warns Europe against ‘reckless’ approach to nuclear deal

PLUTONIUM. £154m plan hatched to move UK’s 140-tonne cache of powdered plutonium from nuclear reactor waste at Sellafield.

SAFETY. Incidents. Ukraine drones hit training centre at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Russian management says.
It’s past time to start protecting U.S. nuclear power reactors from drones.
EDF’s Heysham 1 and Hartlepool nuclear plants to operate for further 12 months. Jellyfish Force another French Nuclear Reactor to Shut Down.

SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. A new arms race in space must be stopped in its tracks .Golden Dome is already a turning point for American space policy.

SPINBUSTER. Pentagon Document: U.S. Wants to “Suppress Dissenting Arguments” Using AI Propaganda.

Decommissioning. Sizewell C | Public on the hook for decommissioning costs of up to £12bn. Sizewell C Funded Decommissioning Programme: Contingent Liability. Anglesey planners to consider relocation of Wylfa building,

WAR and CONFLICT. Israel beginning mass mobilization to take Gaza City – Jerusalem Post.NFLAs join nuclear test appeal to French and Algerian Governments.
Renaming Defense Dept. War Dept. wrong but accurately describes deranged US perpetual war policy.

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. European military-industrial output for Ukraine outpaces the US. War spending is ever greater.Satellite images show construction at site linked to Israel’s suspected nuclear weapons programme.
These fools plan to win a nuclear war: Flight tests begin on US Air Force’s new ‘doomsday plane’