Nuclear news for first week of October

Radio Ecoshock, which (along with Paul Beckwith) I regard as the best information source about climate change, devoted its most recent programme to Australia. Australia does stand out – as both the “canary in the coal-mine”– for climate change, and as the top climate-denialist country.

In today’s Australian news I find an item which illustrates this. Australian country towns are in drought, losing their water supplies. But the national obsession with sport goes on. Thousands of litres of water were trucked in to the now waterless town of Pooncarie – to settle the dust on the race track, for the annual racing carnival. Australia’s P.M. Morrison criticised Greta Thunberg, and Australia continues to take no real action on prevention of, or adaptation to, climate change.

Bill Gates is wrong. Nuclear power will not save the climate.

How nuclear power powers the bomb.

NORTH KOREA. USA – North Korea talks broke down, but USA calls them “good discussions”. North Korea launches missile into waters near Japan days before nuclear talks set to resume with U.S.

IRAN. International Atomic Energy Agency reports improved cooperation with Iran.

INDIA. India and Pakistan sliding toward potential nuclear war. Strong environmental opposition in India, to uranium mining and nuclear power.

USA.

Massive Nuclear Explosion similar to Kyrshtym by Mayak Can Happen Happen at Hanford if the site is not Monitored and tanks not taken care of. Hanford nuclear waste cleanup unlikely ever to be complete, and with a poor safety culture. USA’s stranded plutonium nuclear wastes. Nuclear waste awareness tour begins.
A new process supplies medical isotope 99Mo: no need for a nuclear reactor.
Donald Trump’s Disastrous Relationship with the Questionable Kazakh Business World (Bayrock-Arif, Sater, Sapir, Russia, Trump Soho, Trump Fort Lauderdale, etc.)

CHINA. China buried nuclear waste in Sudan desert.

FRANCE. Nuclear company EDF denounced by France’s economy minister as a “state within a state”.

UK. Scrutiny on Britain’s nuclear plans: small modular reactors uncompetitive.

BANGLADESH. Russia’s manipulations in supplying Bangladesh with nuclear technology.

JAPAN. Nuclear Scandal Hangs Over Japan’s Abe as Parliament Opens. Bribery scandals in Japan’s nuclear power sector. Statement of opinion of a resident of the city of Date, Fukushima Prefecture, presented to the Tokyo Regional Court.

SAUDI ARABIA. Saudi King’s Personal Bodyguard Killed Because He Knew Too Much

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Ohioans Against Nuke Bailout https://www.facebook.com/OhioansAgainstNukeBailout/

PETITION https://www.ohioansagainstnukebailouts.com/petition

Contaminated waste from damaged nuclear plant in Fukushima swept away by Typhoon Hagibis

The Trump Nuclear Push ECU 637 KEVIN KAMPS

After The Apocalypse The Polygon Tests

How the Greenland ice melt will expose buried US nuclear waste within decades｜Climate Change

Free Julian Assange, before it’s too late. Sign to STOP the USA ExtraditionPETITION

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION – theme for October 19

Press freedom: Criminalizing journalistic activity NYT,

The Context

Prosecutors recently expanded a criminal case against Julian Assange to include accusations that he violated the Espionage Act by soliciting, obtaining, and publishing classified documents leaked in 2010 by Chelsea Manning, which could establish a precedent that such common journalistic activities (a separate question from whether Assange counts as a “journalist”) can be treated as a crime in America.

The Question

Are these charges constitutional? Would your administration continue the Espionage Act part of the case against Assange?……..

Elizabeth Warren, Senator from Massachusetts,

Whatever one’s opinions of Julian Assange, these charges under the Espionage Act set a precedent that could be used to target journalists. We should not be using this case as a pretext to wage war on the First Amendment and go after the free press who hold the powerful accountable everyday. more https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/us/politics/press-freedoms-executive-power.html

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