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This week’s nuclear and climate news

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Don’t fall for nuclear industry propaganda about radiation “hormesis” !

CLIMATE CHANGE.  Still possible to contain climate change: Paris UN conference will be critical.   Pope Francis’ US visit has triggered awareness of climate change as a moral issue.   Bank of England warns on climate change’s threat to global stability. Coming refugee crisis as sea levels rise on Pacific Islands.

JAPAN. Afraid about radiation, but afraid to speak out: Fukushima mothers. Japan’s coastal population: risks from radiation ignored by govt and IAEA. Death of heroic anti war photographer Kikujiro Fukushima. Fukushima’s Unitno.5 nuclear reactor was gravely endangered, IAEA finally admits. ‘Japanese govt creates illusion of normality at Fukushima’

GERMANY. Massive Protest Planned Against New Atomic Weapons In Germany.

UK.

• Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn opposes renewal of Trident nuclear weapons programme.
• PICAT – A Public Interest Case Against Trident, co-ordinated by Trident Ploughshares.
• Dr Ian Fairlea sets out the grim facts on costs at the end of the nuclear power chain.
• British media needs to wake up to the national scandal of the Hinkley nuclear project.
• British nuclear submarine stricken with technical problems off coast of Iran.
• Shetland Islands Council endorses Mayors for Peace call for nuclear weapons free world.

UKRAINE. Ukraine’s Nuclear Truth: No Free Speech. Energoatom Lawsuit Against Ukrainian Activists is the Latest Attempt to Stifle Public Debate Over Ageing Nuclear Reactors; Transboundary Impacts.

USA.

• Tick of approval for NRC’s decision to Restore Public Access to Information.
• Former Los Alamos worker counters the disinformation from the nuclear lobby .
• Storage of radioactive debris on beach near San Onofre nuclear facility!
• NBC4 investigates cover-up of Southern California nuclear disaster.
• Medical and Media Manipulation by Boeing, in cover-up of USA Nuclear Disaster.
• Nuclear lobby keen to ‘educate’ public.
• USA nuclear fans trivialise effects of nuclear bombing.

SWEDEN European court upholds Sweden’s right to tax nuclear power stations.

MARSHALL ISLANDS. Mururoa Nuclear Radiation Report Scheduled for October.  Alternative Nobel Prize  goes to Marshall Island’s nuclear challenger.

SOUTH AFRICA ‘s Treasury kept its nuclear work secret.

October 3, 2015 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina's notes