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Climate, nuclear and energy news this week

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CLIMATE.    Global campaign to ban nuclear from the Paris climate talks. Pope Francis encyclical on the environment: 10 key excerpts. Climate change and justice: Pope Francis connects these causes, in lead-up to Paris conference

GREENS becoming a global force – The Asia Pacific Greens congress.

ENERGY. By 2030 renewables will have overtaken coal and nuclear power- IEA report

It’s wearing thin: the pretense that the uranium market is healthy

EUROPE. 25 EU countries on track to meet their interim renewable energy targets.  

•  GERMANY closes a nuclear power plant, moves ahead on renewable energy.
• UK‘s energy policy in a shambles as govt seeks China funding for new nuclear reactors.  UK civil servants urged to speak  out on the poor prospects for new nuclear power.
• UKRAINE.USA Congress bars US assistance going to Ukraine’s Nazi military unit

CHINA Gangwon Province strongly opposes nuclear power

JAPAN- no idea what to do with its nuclear trash now stored in France. Appeal filed for compensation for 7,000 Tochigi residents affected by Fukushima nuclear disaster

Fukushima. The Chernobyl and Fukushima Research Initiative report – no evidence for complacency. Warning onbuildup of radioactive materials in Pacific ocean food chain – salmon, tuna and other species.

USA

• Government anticipates rise in thyroid cancer, due to Fukushima radiation.
• Top military expert warns that USA’s (or Russia’s) nuclear weapons could be launched by a cyber hacker. USA and Russia: top former generals plea to “de-alert” nuclear weapons.  Pentagon presents depleted uranium weaponsas legal and acceptable!
• Pentagon’s arms provider, and billionaires Bill Gates and Paul Allen in propaganda push for Small Nuclear Reactors. Doubts on costs and safety as USA mulls Small Nuclear Reactors.
• Trans Pacific Partnership US Democrats stall passage  of TPP  .Investor-State Dispute Settlement (I.S.D.S.) provisions should be removed from the Trans Pacific Partnership

INDIA‘s new nuclear insurance pool will not cover its research reactors

June 21, 2015 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina's notes