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The Week to February 12 in Nuclear News

Armed transport ships spotted in Panama Canal, headed for secret mission to later transport plutonium.

The very secretive Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

Arbitrary detention of Julian Assange – United Nations finding.

JAPAN. Fukushima nuclear station area has drastic mass death of species. What is to be done with all Fukushima’s radioactive trash? Japan Nuclear Regulation Authority Says No to Fukushima Daiichi’s Ice Wall.   5,300 tons of Fukushima radioactive trash dumped in 5 prefectures.

UK may be getting Beautiful Nuclear Cathedrals! (Amber Rudd will be pleased).  The UK ghost ships with the deadly nuclear cargo.  Huge production of radioactive trash would come from Hinkley point C nuclear reactor.   Hinkley Nuclear Project: trials and Tribulations Continue, and EDF is in dire financial straits. £100 billion. Confusion about financing of UK’s Hinkley nuclear power project. UK govt spurns the success of renewable energy, follows the dodgy chimera of “Small Nuclear Reactors”  Trident nuclear weapons system could all too soon become obsolete.

EUROPE. Court action against nuclear reactors in Belgium. Nuclear utility Vattenfall in crisis – third consecutive annual loss. Ukraine buying Western technology, plans to double its nuclear power.

FRANCE   Electricite De France (EDF) faces €100bn bill for upgrading ageing nuclear power stations.

 USA.

• Indian Point power plant radioactive leak gets worse.  Call for closure of Indian Point Nuclear Station while radioactive leak is investigated.
• Fire/Explosion Reported at North Carolina Nuclear Plant. At Pilgrim nuclear power plant, security officer skipped more than 200 fire watches.
• South Carolina takes legal action against DOE over unfinished Nuclear Fuel Project.
• New Texas nuclear reactors not going to happen anytime soon, despite Fed approval.
• The decline of the South Carolina Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication (MOX) Nuclear Reprocessing Facility.
• Should Georgia’s electricity customers get hit with the ballooning costs of Vogtle nuclear power plant?
• Signing of Trans Pacific Partnership: Bernie Sanders opposes it.
• Most Curious Page of President’s Three Mile Island Nuclear Disaster Report: What is Hidden? Will It Be Declassified?

SOUTH AFRICA. Nuclear “renaissance” to Nuclear Fascism.

 CHINA. China’s nuclear fusion experiment – it’s still decades away from practical application. Problems for China’s nuclear power plans.

INDIA. Ambiguities in marketing nuclear reactors to India. Convention on Supplementary Compensation (CSC) does not override India’s nuclear liability law.

CLIMATE CHANGE & RENEWABLE ENERGY Sea-level rise ‘could last twice as long as human history’. New study: Meeting carbon reduction goals economically means no nuclear power.  World’s largest solar plant to be switched on in Morocco.

February 12, 2016 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina's notes