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In brief – Nuclear News This Week

USA.

• EPA PROPOSES SHOCKING THOUSAND-FOLD INCREASE IN RADIOACTIVITY ALLOWED IN DRINKING WATER.
• 6 USA nuclear stations to have guards with assault rifles.
• Donald Trump Can’t Be Trusted with America’s Nuclear Weapons Codes.
• Scientists, city leaders, local community warn against burial of nuclear waste near San Onofre State Beach.
• Rockland County Lawmakers Want Shutdown of Dangerous Indian Point Nuclear Station.
•  “New Nuclear” lobbyists want changed regulations and more tax-payer funding.
• Exelon reactor closures show how the nuclear rot is really settling in for America.   Exelon wants license to operate nuclear plant for 80 years.
• USA tries to bend the rules, so Toshiba-Westinghouse can sell nuclear reactors to India.

EUROPE.  Heightened threat of a nuclear terror attack.   Rising number of thyroid cancers beyond Ukraine, linked to Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Increasing illness among US sailors exposed to radiation near Fukushima.

FINLAND . Finland’s Fennovoima nuclear station dependent on Russia for all the finance

BIKINI ATOLL Alarmingly high levels of radiation remain

JAPAN.  In Japan, nuclear advertising is back, and journalists are intimidated. . Fukushima medical survey confirms 14 new child thyroid cancer cases.

TAIWAN  environmentalists take legal action against nuclear restart.

RUSSIA. Russia’s Rosatom keenly marketing nuclear power to Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos. There’s heap of articles like this one. Russia is marketing its nukes everywhere!

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