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This week’s nuclear and climate news

It seems that it takes the very young and the very old to grasp the world’s climate emergency, and have the guts to demonstrate this to the world. Greta Thunberg and her family are paying the price for her outspoken courage. David Attenborough, (in the past constrained by the BBC) now speaks boldly about the planet’s environmental crisis.

Nothing dramatically new in the nuclear area.

Freedom of information, press freedom, civil liberties, – might not be directly linked to climate/nuclear issues, -but, indirectly, they’re linked to everything. In London, a judge denies Julian Assange a delay in extradition hearings, as he, having been effectively in solitary confinement, struggles to meet the power and resources of the US government. His own country, Australia, spinelessly  backs the USA, as usual. Meanwhile the Australian media is launching a concerted campaign against Australia’s exceptionally repressive laws that target. journalists

2019 Nuclear Weapons Ban Monitor report.

JAPAN. note. Apologies and correction re last week’s story – Hurricane Hagibis Spreads Fukushima Radiation (But No, 2,667 Bags of Decontaminated Waste were NOT Washed Away!)

Women make up 80 percent of cancer patients aged 20-39 in Japan, study shows. Distribution of highly radioactive microparticles in Fukushima revealed.  At Least 14 levees broke in Fukushima Prefecture.  Lies dominates typhoon Hagibis Diet debate response.

SOUTH KOREA. South Korea Brings Fukushima Radioactive Water Sea Dumping Issue at International London Convention and Protocol of Marine Pollution. Activists urge Japan to avoid Fukushima in Tokyo Olympics.

USA.

• Kings Bay Plowshares 7 face criminal charges and long jail sentences. Interview with legendary whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg following his 89th arrest for resisting nuclear weapons, nuclear war and government secrecy.USA campaign in Count the Nuclear Weapons Money global movement. A single bird grounds America’s Navy ‘Doomsday’ plane.  Anti nuclear activism revival in Washington.
• US Energy Secretary Rick Perry turns New Nuclear Salesman to Europe.
• The U.S. Supreme Court has shut down South Carolina’s attempt to complete a nuclear fuel facility.  Facing a nasty pro nuclear campaign, Ohio’s anti nuclear group hopes for a federal court decision to delay nuclear bailout.  Missouri Commission Wants Legislators To Scrap Nuclear Plant-Funding Law.
• 8-10 years for Southern California Edison to demolish San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.
• Major media bury groundbreaking studies of Pentagon’s massive carbon bootprint.
• High levels of uranium in some Navajo women and infants near old uranium mining sites.

INDIA.  Determined opposition to nuclear expansion in India’s iconic tiger reserve. India keeps increasing its nuclear weaponry – aimed at Pakistan and China.

IRAN. Iranians losing trust that Western countries would keep faith with a nuclear deal.

RUSSIA. Russian nuclear submarine aborts ballistic missile test.

UK. More evidence of safety risks: Hunterston B nuclear reactors should be closed. Safety concerns over Berkshire nuclear weapons factories. Removal of highly radioactive material from 60 year old Dounreay Fast Nuclear Reactor (DFR).

TURKEY. Erdogan’s Ambitions Go Beyond Syria. He Says He Wants Nuclear Weapons. Turkey isn’t “holding 50 US nuclear weapons ‘hostage”. Removing a nuclear arsenal from Turkish soil is a necessary step in reducing a global danger.

ANTARCTICA. Radioactive chlorine from nuclear bomb tests still present in Antarctica.

AUSTRALIA.  Federal govt trying to con Australians that a national nuclear waste dump is a “local” not a NATIONAL ISSUE.

October 23, 2019 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina's notes