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Is nuclear fusion a goer? Not really

Down, down, down goes the price of uranium.

USA.

• Fire erupts within feet of USA radioactive trash dump.  Nevada Radioactive Waste Dump Fire: 47 Pounds of Plutonium Buried at the Beatty “Low Level” Waste Site; Foreshadow of Things to Come Due to Continued Burial of Radioactive Waste in N. America and Europe
• St Louis residents demanding answers on underground fire near nuclear waste.
• Campaign is launched against dangerous nuclear waste transport.
• All too many failures in nuclear power pipelines.
• NRC allows nuclear companies to use decommissioning funds for waste storage, violating rules.
• Federal authorities cancel shipment of high level radioactive trash to Idaho.
• Is Petition for Increasing Public Exposure to Radiation a USNRC Inside Job? Retired NRC Counsel: Carol Marcus Wrote Another Petition at the Request of NRC Staff.
• Renewable energy – 60% of new USA electricity capacity.
• USA environmental groups demand changes to Trans Pacific Partnership.

Bikini Islanders – first expelled by nuclear tests. now by climate change, want to migrate to USA.

UK.  Significant Hurdles Remain for Franco-Chinese Nuclear Reactors in Britain

CHINA far from being nuclear industry hope, could be its nightmare.

JAPAN. No foreseeable end to Fukushima’s daily dumping of radioactive waste to Pacific Ocean. Japan keen to sell nuclear reactors to Kazakhstan. Japanese Prefecture Kyoto moves to replace nuclear with gas and renewables, in pact with Alaska.

RUSSIA. Bellona joins other anti nuclear non profit groups – no longer NGO, harassed by Russian govt.

BRAZIL. Corruption and mismanagement stall Brazil’s nuclear programme.

SOUTH AFRICA. South Africa’s Flawed Environmental Assessments for New Nuclear Build.

GERMANY.Germany’s Renewable Energy Generated Almost Double The Amount From Nuclear.

UAE. United Arab Emirates called upon to lead in regional nuclear disarmament.

INDONESIA. This Could Be the Worst Climate Crisis in the World Right Now

October 30, 2015 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina's notes