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The week in nuclear and climate news

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Climate Change.

• in 2015  Pope Francis is to be a formidable force in the battle against climate change.
• Ban Ki Moon – We are the last generation that can fight climate change.
• Only in America! :  USA Senate to vote on whether or not Climate Change is real!
• USA Congress and Senate to be dominated by Anti-Science Climate Denialists. Ultra religious climate change denialist to run US Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
•  Climate Change statements and promises from world leaders – all smoke and mirrors
• USA’s most ambitious renewable energy target proposed by California’s Governor, Jerry Brown

Media.  Anti nuclear allies: the terrorist victims  – cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo.    Journalists’ self-censorship – avoiding hard topics for fear of government surveillance

Militarism. Gorbachev Says NATO Expansion Into Ukraine Could Ignite Nuclear War.  The nuclear dangers in Ukraine energy wars – don’t miss the full article!

Japan Nuclear policy: the big divide in Japanese society. Fukushima: Environmental problems remain after the Fukushima nuclear disaster  Pacific Ocean research. Fukushima fallout has a distinctive “fingerprint”

Iran. Rouhani’s and Obama’s difficult path towards a nuclear compromise.

UK: The Sellafield mess

• Amec, Areva and URS stripped of £20bn clean-up contract.
• 80 miles from Sellafield nuclear facility, radiation is found in food.
• Sorry history and present danger of Sellafield’s ‘Legacy” radioactive wastes

USA Nuclear industry braces for an even tougher year in 2015.  Entergy can’t afford, for decades, to dismantle Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant. USA’s nuclear industry’s future in doubt – as shown in the costs of Exelon’s New York reactor

Renewable energy: New resource for renewable energy information – REsource, from IRENA.  Wind power record set by Denmark as it heads towards fossil-free goal

January 14, 2015 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina's notes