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11 April: the week in climate, nuclear and corruption news

This week, I stray even further away from the narrow focus on things nuclear. It’s impossible not to notice the achievements of investigative reporters, collaborating across the globe, to reveal widespread corruption in the oil industry, and in the finance industry.  In both cases, hundreds of journalists worked for a year in bringing these facts together.  I’m glad I’ve been watching the BBC series John le Carre’s “The Night Manager” – helped me to understand how corruption works, including legalised corruption. But I digress  even worse.

There’s another massive global corruption going on, and this is the corruption of science. Our grandchildren and great grandchildren will have cause to blame us, as governments, industries, media, join in complacency, or even downright denial, of the reality of anthropogenic climate change. A major source of information on climate change is ra ra at http://www.ecoshock.org/ – where you will learn that that there really is no time to lose: climate change may be happening faster than we all thought.

Equally important, but “under the radar”, is corruption in the nuclear industry. That hasn’t been investigated yet, but are we to believe that the nuclear industry is squeaky clean?  At least two aspects of science corruption are lies promoted by the industry – the lie that nuclear power will save the climate, and the lie that low dose ionising radiation is harmless, even good for you.  I suspect that there is more to come.

CLIMATE CHANGE – happening faster than we expected.

Surprise surprise !  The UNAOIL and the Panama    corruption crises are interlocked. 

IN BRIEF.

• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists analyses outcome of The Nuclear Security Summit.
• Renewable energy and new technologies undercutting price of nuclear power.
• Self styled “Pro Nuclear Environmentalists (PNEs) are just not credible on Chernobyl radiation.
•  France suggests UK’s Hinkley Point nuclear project could still be postponed.
• Nuclear confidence trick: the ‘swap’ of UK’s nuclear wastes for ‘medical isotopes’. UK sending nuclear wastes to America – dangerous and unwise.

April 10, 2016 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina's notes