This week, in climate and nuclear news
Why single out one ecological disaster – when there are so many? I originally dedicated this weekly post to nuclear issues. Now it’s hard to prioritise nuclear. We have the biodiversity crash now going on, and picking up speed. Climate change is always there -its most notable expression this week is in the drowning of Mozambique.
A huge global wake-up call- the human devastation of climate change.
Drastic decline in insect numbers – the bugocalypse.
Small and Medium Nuclear Reactors (SMRs) – cost estimates, and what they cost to build. The sorry history of small nuclear power reactors.
AFRICA. Cyclone Idai Lays Bare Deadly Reality of Climate Change in Africa.
SOUTH KOREA. Limits to South Korean President Moon’s ability to negotiate US-N. Korea nuclear deal.
UK. Strong opposition in Holywell County Council to hosting nuclear waste dump. Despite £1 million just to listen , UK County Councillors not keen to host nuclear waste dump. Sizewell C and nuclear accidents. Bradwell B nuclear project – a risk to UK’s national security? The Nuclear Free Local Authorities (NFLA) dismiss the need for Sizewell C nuclear station, and call for renewables. Dangers of nuclear weapons convoys travelling through Northampton. Fukushima 8th Anniversary: 2 events in London.
BRAZIL. Brazil’s former president Michel Temer arrested on charges of corruption relating to Angra 3 nuclear plant. Nuclear convoy in Brazil attacked by armed men.
USA.
- The nuclear industry mislead and misinformed the public about the Three Mile Island nuclear accident.
- Residents around Three Mile Island nuclear accident exposed to far more radiation than officials claimed.
- Trump tried to close federal loan program, but now wants it to fund Vogtle nuclear station! Too cheap to meter – nuclear now needs a bailout? Despite recently renewed licences, Texas nuclear power stations look like closing before long. Pro nuclear governor and lawmakers to bail out Ohio nuclear plants?
- American nuclear lobby keen to market new nuclear reactors to overseas, to anyone!
- U.S. accuses Iran of plotting to restart nuclear weapons program.
- A battle in U.S. Congress over the extremely costly nuclear weapons modernisation. Communities, lawmakers call for action to reduce nuclear threat. Veterans Demand Congress End the Forever Wars.
- Proposed cuts to Hanford funding unacceptable.
FRANCE. French Nuclear test victim ordered to repay compensation. Earthquake in France, not that far away from nuclear reactors. Orano (makeover of bankrupt AREVA ) not getting anywhere in selling nuclear reprocessing plant to China.
CANADA. Ontario’s govt about to sabotage energy saving systems, – in the interests of the nuclear lobby.
JAPAN. Cost of the Fukushima nuclear disaster estimated at up to 81 trillion yen. To increase energy self-sufficiency after the 2011 nuclear disaster, renewables are Japan’s only option. REMEMBERING Katsuko Saruhashi THE TRAILBLAZING SCIENTIST WHO UNCOVERED NUCLEAR FALLOUT IN THE PACIFIC.
MIDDLE EAST. In the Middle East, world’s most volatile region, nuclear power is taking off – what could possibly go wrong?
ISRAEL. UN raps Israel’s use of ‘unlawful force’ against Gazans .
SOUTH AFRICA. Energy expert dismisses Zuma’s nuclear deal comment.
SPAIN. Power firms agree on route to close Spain’s oldest nuclear plant.
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Donald Trump and Rick Perry are gleefully tweeting, their full committment to nuclear power renewal in the USA. Trump is now committing 68 cents of every US government dollar to military expenditure. Art Robinson, Robert Mercer, and John Bolton who together helped propell Trump in, believe a small nuclear war will be good for the Human Race. It will be good to weed out the weak. They have done everything else, they said they would do. There will probably be a limited tactical Nuclear war and ensueing larger conflict soon. Perhaps the next few months. The economy is beginning to sag badly with social structures noticibly falling apart.
The crazy creeps are pushing nukular hard in the usa this week, especially fuko the clown. Hes at it hard. The nukular ghoul: Bill Gates does not look good. Speculation that it has melanoma. Karma