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The week that has been, in climate and nuclear news

CLIMATE. It has been a big week for climate news, with the New York signing, by a record 175 countries,  of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.

Steaming hot world sets more temperature records.    Future uninhabitable for Middle East, due to climate change? NASA will no longer mess with climate change denialists on Facebook.  Climate Change threatens the already leaking Marshall Islands radioactive dome

ENERGY & NUCLEAR ISSUES

Cold war reviving, as USA, Russia, China build up newer, smaller, nuclear weapons.

Founder of Chernobyl Children International (CCI) Adi Roche to address UN.

EUROPE. NATO concerned at danger of ISIS nuclear attack on Britain or Europe

Uranium market continues its relentless downward plunge.  World’s Wind Energy Industry set to nearly double in next five years.

UK. £18bn Hinkley Point nuclear power station plan headed for a’grinding halt’?  EDF plan to help finance Hinkley nuclear project could be illegal.  Clean water for 10 million people, due to London’s new floating solar farm.

FRANCE. Nuclear corporation EDF’s minority shareholders want French govt to be forced to buy them out. France committed to investing in Hinkley nuclear plant, even if it bankrupts EDF.

GERMANY. Solar city makes more 4 times more electricity than it consumes.

USA.

• Hans Blix warns on USA’s danger in not reducing nuclear arsenal.
• ‘New Nuclear” lobby working to weaken powers of USA’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). 
• Radioactive rain within Indian Point 2 reactor cavity falls on workers.
• Judge rules against proposed Turkey Point nuclear plans. 
• Washington Post and New York Times in the arms of the nuclear lobby?
• Disastrous state of Hanford’s nuclear waste farm – ‘Catastrophic’ Nuclear leak.
• Walt Disney Florida Resort to get Mickey Mouse shaped solar farm.

JAPAN. Growing concern over Sendai Nuclear Plant as earthquakes continue in the region. Japan Radioactive Rubble-Old Reactor Parts to be Sent to America and/or Britain?

RUSSIA   keenly promoting unaffordable nuclear power to Hungary, South Africa. Russian nuclear corporationRosatom to “educate” South Africans on benefits of nuclear power. Russia marketing nuclear power stations to Laos: Russia will build and operate them.

UKRAINE. Chernobyl’s nuclear nightmare – a timeline. Ukraine sticks with nuclear power, ignoring Chernobyl disaster. New book: Voices from Chernobyl, by Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich. Australia to sell uranium to Ukraine? – insensitive timing, economic and security folly.

CHINA.  tests very long range ballistic missile with 10 nuclear warheads.

INDIA plans 1,250 MW Solar Power Projects Over Waterways

SAUDI ARABIA  may turn to solar power, as low oil prices hit finances.

IRAN. EU and Iran co-operating on nuclear safety.  America to buy nuclear material from Iran.

April 23, 2016 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized