Climate news, nuclear news -this week

This week, Katharine Hayhoe, climate scientist and evangelical Christian, sends a powerful message to other Christians, on the urgent necessity to act on climate change. Scientific warnings have intensified over recent month. It used to be “a problem for our grandchildren“, but climate change is here, now. With a new urgency, the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2019 will be held from 2-13 December in Madrid.California wildfires signal the arrival of a planetary fire age.

Mainstream media has been silent on the threats, and indeed the impacts, of extreme weather on nuclear facilities. There is minimal (and all too reassuring) coverage following on the effects of Hurricane Hagibis on Fukushima’s collections of radioactive trash. There is not a mention of the threats to nuclear facilities, in the reporting on the Californian wildfires. For example, there are fires in Ventura County, which has the notorious nuclear Santa Susana Field Laboratory – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn8xyr7CYXs

A bit of good news – the Living New Deal Project.

Ruthless and relentless – USA-UK destruction of Julian Assange.

Fukushima is not safe for 2020 Olympics, nuclear scientists warn.

The human species at threat of wipeout – nuclear war in space.

A Global Review : Threats o f Nuclear Conflict. How an India-Pakistan nuclear war could start—and have global consequences. United Nations adopts Japan’s nuclear disarmament resolution.

Argentina’s Rafael Grossi chosen to head UN nuclear agency.

No, thorium nuclear power is still not a viable energy technology.

Greta Thunberg and Leonardo Di Caprio join forces in climate crusade.

INDIA. Heat deaths in India will increase greatly, if greenhouse emissions increase.

JAPAN.

Warning on Fukushima fallout for Tokyo 2020 Olympians.
Citizens’ group in Fukushima puts out radiation map in English.Regulators to review Fukushima Daiichi plant work.
Area of Fukushima Nuclear Power Station Disaster Badly Impacted By Flooding, High Waves, Landslides. 9 Japan water purification plants flooded by Typhoon Hagibis lacked watertight doors.
Citizens’ Committee on Nuclear Energy proposes long-term storage for treated water from damaged Fukushima Daichi plant. A Govt panel to decide on dumping Fukushima waste water.
TEPCO needs to make its case for bailing out aging nuclear plant.

EU to ease Japanese food import restrictions.

FRANCE. French activists broke into nuclear plant, demonstrating the risk of terrorism. EDF – a nuclear business financial meltdown.

USA.

Climate change driving California’s wildfires to worse levels.
A USA Bill to make sensible but significant cuts to “nuclear weapons and delivery systems.”
Over 60 organisations across the nation oppose USA’s bailout of the nuclear industry. Exelon wants tax-payer subsidies for nuclear reactors – threatens to close 4, otherwise. Get the facts straight on costs of nuclear energy.
Nuclear waste storage? There’s no real money in it for Wyoming.– Wyoming legislators and their secret vote about nuclear waste dump. Wyoming’s Governor Gordon OK with the idea of nuclear waste dump. Judge declines to stop fuel transfer at San Onofre nuclear plant.
New legal hearing for opposition to Plant Vogtle nuclear expansion. Environmentalists concerned: Turkey Point nuclear station could be allowed to operate for 80 years. Attorney general files motion to suspend Pilgrim nuclear license transfer.
Safety of Los Angeles Nuclear Laboratory needs independent verification.
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission approves Westinghouse atomic fuel factory despite its leaks and spills. Whistleblowers and the safety problems at Hanford nuclear waste site.
Toxic effects of uranium mining on indigenous communities. Uranium mining and my family’s story.

MARSHALL ISLANDS. Legal action on The Marshall Islands’ leaky radioactive nuclear waste dome?

UK. UK launches review of net zero emissions. Nuclear costs escalate as wind prices keeps falling. Warning on ecological impacts of Sizewell nuclear project. Britain’s Dungeness nuclear reactors -extended outages, since corrosion found in pipes. Residents of Gillingham UK unaware of proximity of nuclear waste dump. UK Government propaganda for nuclear war in the 1980s.

IRAN. US renews support for foreign companies working with Iran’s nuclear program .

BRAZIL. 10th International Uranium Film Festival in Rio de Janeiro, May 2020

RUSSIA. Beware of secrecy over Russian Nuclear explosion, and of American nuclear dangers. Russia’s Rosatom nuclear firm targets its marketing at African countries.

TURKEY. Turkey Has Long Had Nuclear Dreams.

PHILIPPINES. Only Russia will benefit if Philippines goes nuclear.

AFRICA. African countries being conned into nuclear debt, by Russia. No nuclear in South Africa’s future energy mix.

SAUDI ARABIA. USA negotiating nuclear sales with Saudi Arabia. Countries vie to market nuclear reactors to Saudi Arabia.