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The week that was, in climate and nuclear news

CLIMATE CHANGE disruption – the future is happening now. Destructive Wildfire near Canada’s Oil Sands May Have Been Fueled by Global Warming. Climate change is taking its toll on water supplies, and especially – on children. Month after month, global average temperatures reach record heights. Ocean’s small shelled animals suffering from acidification due to global warming.

Children Suffer Nuclear Impact Worldwide.

Leaked TTIP documents cast doubt on EU-US trade deal.

USA.

• Exelon nuclear corporation demands tax-payer bailout for its uneconomic power plants.
• Continuing nuclear waste leak at Hanford.
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission to re-analyse costs of potential impact of severe accident At Indian Point.
• Documents reveal poor performance of Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility (MOX).
• Respiratory diseases, radioactive fumes – concerns in St Louis County, USA.
• Radiation from Santa Susana Field Laboratory in California causing cancers, but this is hushed up.
• Parents near nuclear plant concerned about evacuation plans.
• Sanders and Clinton split on future of Indian Point nuclear station.
• USA’s Energy Dept program ‘Orange Button’ will bring down costs of solar power.

UK. Global danger in transporting nuclear wastes by plane.

CANADA. Cameco cuts back on mining uranium, as market stays slumped.

Former Electricite de France SA Chief Financial Officer says he quit because of financial risks of Hinkley nuclear project. UK nuclear parts made at French plant in fakery probe. ‘400 irregularities’ in nuclear power plant parts – admits France’s nuclear firm AREVA.

OCEANIA. Nuclear shipwreck still highly radioactive over 60 years later.

JAPAN. Fukushima and the Right NOT to Return: Nuclear Displacement in a System for “Hometown Recovery”

NORTH KOREA. North Korea’s nuclear program.

May 7, 2016 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina's notes