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Climate and nuclear news this week

Climate change is an emergency – NOW . While some of us have for decades campaigned against the acute and chronic danger of nuclear weapons and nuclear power, I am having to admit that the climate change issue is urgent, in an even more powerful way.  That’s because climate change has crept up on the world in an insidious way, so that now it is just about at the tipping point, just about irreversible.

One could argue that, short of a global catastrophe – a nuclear war, the world might still stop the nuclear horror “later on”. There is no “later on” for climate change.

We must fight both of these horrendous global threats.

Regions hit by world’s hottest month. Global warming brings worse wildfires – United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. Get used to extreme floods. Climate Change – a serious matter now – will threaten future Olympic Games!

Nuclear reactors, old or new designs, doomed without hefty tax-payer subsidies.

USA.

• The health impacts of wildfires in America’s West. Obama’s climate change accounting is upheld by federal appeals court.
• Nuclear war danger being ignored by USA Presidential candidates. President Reagan worked with Russia to defuse the nuclear arms race; time that President Obama did that, too.
• USA sends three strategic bombers to Pacific region, in unspoken threat to China.
• Report: U.S. Transfers Nukes From Turkish Airbase to Romania. Romania Denies Accepting US Nuclear Weapons.
• China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) is accused of stealing US nuclear secrets.
• Secretive manouvres involve tax-payer funds for Bill Gates’ small nuclear reactors.
• Environmental groups in America take legal action against transport of nuclear wastes.

UK.  UK’s Crown Estate recommends UK switching attention from nuclear power to offshore wind.  “Small Nuclear” companies keen to market their wares to UK government.

RUSSIA. International nuclear tensions: Russia builds ‘nuclear bomb proof’ underground bunkers.

JAPAN. Japan’s big ‘nuclear restart’ overtaken by conservation and renewables.   Shikoku Electric fires up Ehime plant MOX reactor amid protests.  Citizen groups organise for legal action to stop Japan’s nuclear restarts.

CANADA. Uranium Miner Cameco’s Tax Avoidance Cost Canada Over $2 Billion in Lost Revenue.

FRENCH POLYNESIA‘s Protestant church takes action against France over nuclear testing.

SOUTH AFRICA. Drone crash into Koeberg Nuclear Power Station.

August 19, 2016 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina's notes