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The Week in Nuclear and Climate News

COP21 Bill Gates leads nuclear industry’s publicity drive at COP21.  I smell a Breakthrough Energy Coalition nuclear rat at COP21.  Gates’ nuclear dream doesn’t stand up to critical analysis.  What is needed isrenewable energy DEPLOYMENT, not just research. The global nuclear industry is clearly getting the jitters.

Paris Climate Conference ‘At the Limits of Suicide,’ Commitments Nowhere Near Enough to Miss 2 C. Complaint Filed Against French State Utility EDF-Climate Conference Sponsor for False Advertising. Republic of Marshall Islandsseeks refuge in USA for its climate (and nuclear) victims.

 Global warming is increasing wildfires (and increasing the danger from nuclear facilities). $3.4 Trillion Fossil Fuel Divestment Globally.

A warning to COP21 on dubious safety of China’s nuclear gamble.

UK Government’s Nuclear Plans – Will they work?   Britons fear Donald Trump might use NATO nuclear weapons, if he becomes President.

USA

• NRC Pontificates How Much Leakage Acceptable at Nuclear Power Stations.
•  US NRC Continues to Manipulate the ASME Code; Feigns Safety Concerns.
• High cancer levels in those who lived near Coldwater Creek’s nuclear wastes, St Louis County.
• The Strange Politics of Global Warming and Nuclear Power.
• Entergy will definitely shut down Fitzpatrick nuclear power plant.
• Insurance companies watching as USA Nuclear company seeks to extend life of reactors to 80 years.
• New York City and State Department oppose relicensing of Indian Point nuclear plant.
• A new nuclear dream: Westinghouse wants its employees to produce new reactor designs.
• Questions on nuclear waste storage: salt more permeable than previously thought?
• Radioactive spill at Cotter’s defunct uranium mill in central Colorado.

JAPN. Troubling indications of recurring nuclear criticality at FukushimaDaiichi. Despite bribes offered, 47 Prefectures not keen to host Japan’s 166,000 tons of nuclear waste. ‘NO to nuclear waste dumping’ say 13 Japanese Prefectures.

CANADA Ontario’s Energy Minister announces yet another sweetheart nuclear deal.

GERMANY  expecting nuclear utilities to pay the costs of decommissioning and disposal of radioactive trash.   Germanutility RWE splits, in order to deal with costs of nuclear station closures.

BELGIUM   extending life of nuclear reactors – meets with criticism on this, as nuclear no solution to climate change.

FRANCE sets up Europe’s biggest solar farm: it’s cheaper than nuclear power station. France to spend billions onAfrican renewable energy projects.

December 4, 2015 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina's notes