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This week in nuclear and climate news

CLIMATE CHANGE. Obama Administration enables nuclear industry to pitch itself as climate change solution.  Nuclear lobby hoping to be part of Paris Climate Talks.  Christiana Figueres: a climate action force to be reckoned with.

TRANS PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP Big Corporations need not worry about Climate Agreements: the Trans Pacific Partnership  will fix that for them! Nov 16 – 18 Mass Mobilization To Stop The TPP.

NUCLEAR WEAPONS. Oh goody! America has a more ‘usable’ bombin Europe! Russia leaks ‘Secret’ Plans For Nuclear Weapons.   USA trying to persuade Pakistan to constrain its nuclear weapons program.  $493 billion invested in nuclear weapons by banks, insurance companies and pension funds. Narrowly avoided accidental nuclear apocalypse in 1983 revealed.  Jeremy Corbyn has got it rightabout Trident nuclear missiles.

RUSSIA. Russia’s militarisation of the Arctic, and the danger of itsmini nuclear reactors.

JAPAN. Radiation effects from Fukushima have been chronically underestimated.

INDIA. It seems that nobody will be liable for a nuclear disaster in India! India shuts down nuclear criticGreenpeace.

USA. US EPA Supports No Safe Dose of Radiation; Objects to NRC Proposal of 100 mSv per Year: Comment Deadline 19 Nov. 11.59 PM. Cover-up of radiation hazard at children’s holiday camp in Southern California. Not much real help to nuclear lobby from White House. USA’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission considering 80 year licenses for nuclear reactors!. Legal case over St Louis radioactive trash – 2700 cancer cases from nuclear radiation?

UK. Miscarriages and Congenital Conditions in Offspring of Veterans of the British Nuclear Atmospheric Test Programme.  Chromosome Translocations in Nuclear Test Veterans. What is going to happen toDana Durnsford, The nuclear proctologist?

PRISM (Power Reactor Innovative Small Module) and MOX much touted, but nuclear waste burial is best.

CANADA Canadians near nuclear power stations given iodine pills.

FINLAND‘s underground nuclear waste storage plan approved.

November 13, 2015 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina's notes