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The week to February 20, in Nuclear News

UN ruling on Julian Assange, and Constitutional Law.

Paris terrorist attackers had planned to target Belgian nuclear reactors.   Belgian terror suspect had video of high ranking nuclear official.

Stolen nuclear material in Iraq – risk of an Islamic State “dirty bomb”.

EUROPE is more than 118 billion euros short of funds needed to decommission its nuclear reactors.Limited liabilityfor Germany’s nuclear operators in nuclear phaseout.

BRITAIN’s nuclear project Hinkley Point C staggers again. UK public conned by vested interests into funding Trident nuclear weapons system.

Call on the British govt to hold a public enquiry on the murder of Hilda Murrell. The unsolved murder of Hilda Murrell, Anti-Nuclear Activist.

FRANCE: EDF in its financial woes, extends the life of four nuclear reactors. EDF dodges making a decision on UK Hinkley nuclear station. Defective pressure vessel could seal the tomb of the EPR nuclear reactor.

UKRAINE. Radiation causing Chernobyl’s wild animals to lose their sight.

JAPAN. 

• 16 new child thyroid cancers confirmed in Fukushima’s children.
• Fukushima couple wins landmark case against TEPCO. Fukushima evacuees urged to individually file suits against TEPCO. 9,600 members of Fukushima plaintiff association suing Japanese govt and TEPCO.
• TEPCO Turning Off Radiation Monitors While Testing Contaminated Waste Incinerators.  Fukushima’s nuclear waste problems piling up.  More than 1,100 water storage tanks at Fukushima plant … and counting.

USA.

• St Louis underground fire moves closer to radioactive trash dump.
• Radioactive groundwater a difficult problem at Vermont Yankee nuclear site.
• Nuclear industry funded under the mask of “clean energy” – the Breakthrough Institute.  USA Government quietly funding billionaires’ nuclear folly.
• Nuclear crooks prosper in USA.
• Moapa Band of Paiute Indians fear a nuclear waste dump being imposed at Yucca Mountain. Native Americans’water supply contaminated by uranium mining.
• US Energy Dept cites two companies for violations at Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP).
• Tennessee Valley Authority considers selling its unfinished Bellefonte Nuclear Plant. New nuclear reactors plan abandoned in Alabama.
• USA had nuclear weapons on Okinawa- declassified information, but everyone knew anyway.

CANADA  Push to not just postpone nuclear waste burial near Great Lakes, but to stop it altogether. Official Canadian report reveals Fukushima radioactive iodine in rain reached West Coast of America.

INDIA . Corporate elites push their toxic nuclear products onto India

SOUTH AFRICA . President’s very proble

February 20, 2016 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina's notes