Nuclear and Climate News to October 28
NUCLEAR UN votes to start negotiating treaty to ban nuclear weapons Australia votes with major nuclear powers against the resolution – including US, Russia and Israel – but 123 nations vote in favour.
CLIMATE. Carbon dioxide at record levels, UN warns. The hottest year on record? It will be 2016. Climate change and ocean deoxygenation on the way to suffocating the oceans. Climate change could spark the world’s next financial crisis. Climate change brings skin diseases to new regions. Half a Kilometer of Ice Gone in Just 7 Years — West Antarctica’s Smith Glacier Points To Nightmare Melt Scenario
Causal connection between nuclear radiation and Alzheimers’ Disease – European research.
A “nonsense” paper accepted for International Conference on Atomic and Nuclear Physics.
AFRICA. “We Have Nowhere to Go” — Sea Level Rise is Devouring the Coast of West Africa
USA
- Political journalism in America – dying, with the tawdry election “debate”
- The danger of war between USA and Russia now greater than in the cold war.
- USA and North Korea are talking, unofficially.
- Republicans’ foreign policy approach more moderate than that of Democrats.
- America DID use depleted uranium weapons in Syria.
- Transport of nuclear waste – as big a problem as storage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oANCQyWluOk
- USA’s Energy Secretary Moniz promoting nuclear industry for all he’s worth. National and Texas groups unite against nuclear waste “interim” storage scheme.
- Investment firm Carlyle Group LP foresees end of nuclear power in USA, unless saved by tax-payers Closure of Fort Calhoun nuclear station will save $millions. Wind and solar power set to take over as Fort Calhoun nuclear plant closes.
- TVA Watts Bar Nuclear Workers Frightened of Raising Safety Concerns: US NRC Meets with TVA Officials on Nov. 3rd.
SOUTH KOREA. South Korea’s anxiety: talk of pre-emptive strikes on North Korean missile and nuclear facilities.
FRANCE. Japanese Flawed steel Components at the Center of French Nuclear Crisis – Major Questions & Implications for Japanese Reactors Safety.
JAPAN. Massive underestimation of Cost to scrap Fukushima nuclear plant Japanese officials admit. Outside power temporarily cut to Okayama uranium processing facility after quake.
TAIWAN to End Nuclear Power Generation in 2025
UK. Scottish power plant forced offline for a week by swarm of jellyfish.
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