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Wrap up of week’s nuclear news

CLIMATE. May Marks 8th Consecutive Record Hot Month in NASA’s Global Temperature Measure. Dozens of USA climate denial groups funded by biggest US coal company.  Parts of Philippines May Submerge Due to Global Warming.

NUCLEAR.   Nuclear disasters and “normalization” of contaminated areas

UKRAINE‘s  very dangerous nuclear waste storage situation. The media ignored the fiasco of AREVA’s nuclear waste storage facility at Chernobyl.

INDIA. Nuclear marketers see India as a saviour of nuclear industry.

USA.

• Orlando gunman a security guard, for a firm that guards US nuclear sites.
• Donald Trump’s strange nuclear negotiating ideas.
•  Former NATO Commander calls for nuclear negotiations with Russia.
• US Congress only just failed to pass law to defund a new nuclear cruise missile program.
• Watts Bar-2 nuclear reactor – 43 years to build – shut down after 2 days.
•  Fort Calhoun nuclear plant too expensive to run.
•  Entergy’s Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station – decrepit facility with radioactive waste problem.
•  USA’s Pro Nuclear Energy Secretary Moniz announces $82 Million for Nuclear Energy Research.
•  U.S. Court of Appeals rules nuclear waste can stay on indigenous land.

JAPAN. Fukushima: 173 Children Thyroid Cancers in Fukushima Prefecture Another evacuation order lifted.   Tepco chief likely banned use of ‘meltdown’ under government pressure: report. Tepco to inject cement instead of frozen water wall.  Japan report on Chernobyl disaster’s health effects to be publicly released.

SOUTH KOREA‘s  nuclear waste dilemma: will have to build waste dump

RUSSIA.  Government Against Rights Groups (Includes Environmental Groups). Russia’s powerful new nuclear icebreaker.

TAIWAN’s  nuclear waste problem – sees overseas reprocessing as the answer.

IRAN. US agencies and prosecutors influence Europe’s banks to impede Iran nuclear deal. Time that USA government backed its Iran nuclear deal and promoted investment.

KUWAIT. Kuwaitis (KIA) Want Out of French State Owned Nuclear Group Areva

June 17, 2016 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina's notes