Roundup of this week’s nuclear and climate news

Climate change is still the Big One. But, the danger of nuclear war is also the Big One, and particularly so right now. Red Cross and Red Crescent (IRRC) statement to UN on nuclear disarmament. Religious groups unite to lobby at UN on nuclear weapons ban. Nobel Prize laureates call for an end to the insanity of nuclear weapons.

Removing CO2 From the Air seen as Only Hope for Fixing Climate Change

The Health Impacts Of Climate Change Are Huge And Very Real. Lord Stern – Indigenous land rights fundamental to climate safety.

If they didn’t have mental problems before, Mars travellers sure will afterwards!

USA.

All too easy for an American President to start nuclear apocalypse. Trump ‘should not have his finger on the button’ – Former nuclear launch officers. Russian legislator urges Americans to vote Trump, or risk nuclear war.
Nuclear-powered USS Ronald Reagan to join U.S.-South Korean joint naval drills.
Third ceiling collapse at Nuclear Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.
Long term safety of spent nuclear fuel storage canisters is far from assured.
Shipments of Nuclear Waste Through Hurricane Prone Atlantic to Charleston SC Almost Monthly?
Thorium polluted site added to America’s National Priorities List. Climate Change is THE ISSUE for many young American voters.

RUSSIA. Putin orders overseas Russian officials to bring family members home. Russia moves nuclear-capable missiles to Kaliningrad , but says this is not significant. Russia’s ceremony to mark start of construction of floating nuclear power station.

NORTH KOREA on track to ramp up its nuclear weapons. Spiral of repeated failure in nuclear sanctions against North Korea.

JAPAN. Newborn baby deaths significantly increased in areas radioactively polluted by Fukushima nuclear disaster. According to a wildlife journalist, even in Tokyo some animals suffer mutations. Active Volcanoes Endanger Japan’s Operating Nuclear Power Stations: Mount Aso Awakened Explosively; Sakurajima Already Awake.

CHINA. China going allout to market nuclear reactors to Asia, Europe, Africa and Middle East

UK. Britain’s uneconomic Hinkley nuclear project really connected with its nuclear weapons aims.

CANADA. Canadian nuclear safety official in bed with nuclear industry?

SWITZERLAND. Switzerland bans new nuclear reactors.

SOUTH AFRICA. Tina Joemat-Pettersson says South African govt will not fund nuclear build. Something not quite right about South Africa’s plan for Eskom to finance nuclear build?

INDIA. India’s government seeking private investment for its costly Light Water Nuclear Reactors.

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