Anti-nuclear protesters plan a “die-in” outside Westminster Abbey
submarine-based missile system is held. Prince William, Government
ministers, military top brass and Royal Navy veterans will pack the London
landmark for a ceremony heralding a half century since Operation Relentless
was launched. But some 180 Church leaders have signed a demand calling on
the Dean of Westminster Abbey to “urgently reconsider” the tribute.
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament general secretary Kate Hudson said:
“Surely Westminster Abbey must now realise it has made a very serious
error of judgement.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/anti-nuclear-activists-plan-die-14974517
UK Cold War exhibition tries to gloss over the effects of nuclear testing on indigenous people
Cold War exhibition tries to airbrush Britain’s dark history of nuclear testing, The Conversation, Researcher, Social History/Tutor in Medical Education, University of Dundee, May 2, 2019 A new exhibition about the Cold War recently opened at the UK National Archives at Kew in south-west London. Protect and Survive: Britain’s Cold War Revealed seeks to tell the story of how the years of high nuclear tensions affected the UK, from spy paranoia to civil defence posters to communications at the heart of government. …..
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Remembrance, The omissions at the London Cold War exhibition are a reminder about the UK’s low-key approach to its weapons testing history. The story doesn’t only need to be properly told at this exhibition, it needs a permanent public space. Yet no existing museum dedicated to Britain’s wars is interested in giving it house room – not even the records and memorabilia of all the military personnel sent to observe the tests. A number of years ago I was quietly told while walking down a corridor in one major institution not to offer it my own records because “they will end up in the skip”.
My years working in this field indicate to me that successive governments seem to want the story of British nuclear testing to die off naturally. But surely, at the very least, the point of the National Archives is to preserve the records to ensure that it is never allowed to be forgotten. https://theconversation.com/cold-war-exhibition-tries-to-airbrush-britains-dark-history-of-nuclear-testing-116237
USA’s Nuclear Regulators look to New Mexico desert For Temporary Waste Storage Facility
 Nuclear Regulators Search For Temporary Storage Facility In New Mexico, NPR, April 30, 2019 NATHAN ROTT
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How bailout of Pennsylvania nuclear plants would cost consumers billions,
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Pennsylvania and New Jersey lawmakers are preparing to push up your monthly electricity bill … in order to shovel subsidies to failing nuclear-power plants. Consumers like you are projected to pay billions in higher electricity bills over the next decade — killing jobs and shrinking your savings in the bargain. What’s driving this? For the past few years, natural-gas pipelines have delivered cheap fuel, shrinking the cost of generating electricity. It is now cheaper to make electricity with natural gas than with any other fossil fuel. That’s a big win for consumers and manufacturers. But it is bad news for nuclear-power plant operators, whose generating costs are often higher than the market price for power. So now nuclear-power operators hope to persuade lawmakers that taxpayers should bail them out. And their plan, backed by a pile of lobbying dollars, is working. The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities awarded “zero-emissions certificates” on April 18 to three state nuclear plants, all owned and operated by investor-owned utility Public Service Enterprise Group. That’s a subsidy of some $300 million per year. Those subsidies will be paid by surcharges on consumer electric bills. The Newark Star-Ledger summed it up best: “For PSEG, a windfall. For us, the shaft.” And Pennsylvania is not far behind the Garden State. Pennsylvania state Rep. Thomas Mehaffie, a Republican, has introduced a bill that would offer subsidies to the Keystone state’s five nuclear plants. He says the plan will cost some $500 million per year — raising utility bills roughly $21.24 per home per year. The real cost will be much higher, critics say, pointing to estimates of more than $60 per year per household. The battle is not over yet in Pennsylvania. Lawmakers in Harrisburg are getting an earful from the AARP and consumer groups. State regulators also believe the Pennsylvania bailout proposal is misguided. Public Utility Commissioner Andrew Place sent a memo to members of the state Senate saying that “this bill, in its current form, is far from the least cost mechanism to achieve these goals.” No kidding. In fact, the subsidy plan is so broadly written that it would also fund nuclear plants, like Beaver Valley Nuclear Station, that are not actually losing money. What’s clear is that utilities are getting what they paid for. In New Jersey, PSEG reportedly spent some $2.4 million lobbying for subsidies in 2017. In Pennsylvania, the company that owns the struggling Three Mile Island plant — Exelon — reportedly tripled its lobbying expenditures since 2016, spending $1.78 million in 2018. While the nuclear-power industry can’t seem to make money off its failing plants, it has certainly figured out how to squeeze a return on investment from its lobbyists and its campaign contributions. The hard truth is that plain-old competition is killing the dinosaur utilities. Thanks to natural gas, U.S. manufacturers enjoy lower industrial kilowatt per-hour prices than all of the other 35 countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, except Norway. That is a huge advantage for factories in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. Subsidies just slow the inevitable. No bailout can change the reality that nuclear plants are whales beached by high insurance and regulatory costs. Their losses should provoke soul-searching among shareholders and far-reaching reforms of current management — not a cry for government bailouts…….. https://www.mcall.com/opinion/mc-opi-pennsylvania-nuclear-industry-bailout-20190501-hjzucrrqm5hovcunhj7dencnly-story.html |
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UK govt resisting calls to declare ‘climate emergency’
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Business Green 1st May 2019 , The government is today expected to resist fresh calls for it to declare a’climate emergency’, after Michael Gove indicated that more agreement was
across government before Defra could back a formal ‘climate emergency’. Gove yesterday met with representatives from the Extinction
Rebellion group who later described themselves as “disappointed” at the lack of firm commitments from the Environment Secretary on how he plans to accelerate the UK’s decarbonisation efforts. The group expressed frustration at the government’s continued failure to declare a ‘climate emergency’ and insisted that their campaign of peaceful civil disobedience would continue. Later today the High Court is expected to rule on whether a
legal challenge against the government’s approval for Heathrow expansion can proceed, while tomorrow the CCC will present its long awaited recommendations on whether the UK should adopt a net zero emission target. The Committee is widely expected to call for a new 2050 target, fuelling speculation the government could look to amend the Climate Change Act before the summer in order to get the new goal onto the statute book as quickly as possible. |
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Secret history of Israel’s first nuclear device
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I Guarded Israel’s First Nuclear Device, Former Israeli Reveals in U.S. Testimony, Haaretz, 1 May 19
Elie Geisler says he was asked during the Six Day War to guard a secret base in central Israel that held the device. He described a clash with Col. Yitzhak Yaakov, who demanded control of the base and threatened to break into it by force |
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