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Nuclear news – week to 25 July

So much news, so overwhelming – the pandemic, climate extremes in China. South Asia, USA, Europe, UK.   In the middle of all the gloom, quite an inspiring article from science writer Julian Cribb,   with a method to save the world. He argues, passionately and persuasively for putting the ”weaker” sex in charge. In The Age of Women, Cribb says that If humanity is to survive the vast and growing threats it faces, women must assume the leadership of government, business, religion and social institutions around the world.

Some bits of good news –   Overwhelmed by environmental disaster? Here’s a scorecard to inspire optimism.     The bright spots in the State of the Environment report.  

State of the Environment report shows our growing cities are under pressure – but we’re seeing positive signs too

The Age of Women.

War wins the ‘big bucks’ while climate gets the ‘change’

Calling Putin ‘Hitler’ to Smear Diplomacy as ‘Appeasement’.

NATO: The Most Dangerous Military Alliance on the Planet.     Phil Wilayto column: The provocations behind the ‘unprovoked’ war.      The Biggest Lie The Hawks Ever Sold. In Ukraine, a proxy war on the planet.       US Military Analyst: West Can’t Afford Ukraine Spending, Will Run Out of Ammo to Send to Kiev.          Global action urged to block AUKUS plan on transfer of nuclear materials.

Nuclear Power Plants Are Struggling to Stay Cool.

Baseload nuclear power not needed in an all-renewable future – Claverton Energy Research Group.

Death toll rises above 1,500 as temperatures soar across Europe.

As Europe burns, the world’s climate plan, such as it is, unravels.

UKRAINE.  

• Russia is using captured Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station as a launch pad for military attacks . 
• Greenpeace radiation investigation at Chornobyl to assess accuracy of IAEA data. Greenpeace investigation challenges nuclear agency on Chornobyl radiation levels. Greenpeace experts find Chornobyl under Russian occupation – radiation levels much higher than the IAEA estimated. 
• Russia says Ukrainian drone struck nuclear plant, but caused no damage. 
• Ukraine Defense Minister Offers Ukraine as a ‘Testing Ground’ for NATO Weapons. 
• Money Pit: Zelensky govt signals intent to default on tens of billions in foreign debts.

FRANCE. Evacuation of site , as wildfires rage near nuclear power plant being decommissioned.      La Hague is still threatened by wildfires Monday afternoon: firefighters mobilized on July 18 not far from the Orano nuclear site.  Macron facing NUCLEAR nightmare as scorching heatwave cripples SIX reactors. 4 French nuclear reactors authorized to discharge hotter water during heatwave, as 29 others remain offline, (nuclear the cure for global heating?)

 Nationalisation of EDF seen as ‘inevitable’ to carry out France’s nuclear plans. France’s costly nationalisation of the nuclear industry. Employee shareholders to sue EDF over France nationalising nuclear industry .          New failure on the Flamanville EPR, the reactor control system’s malfunction. EDF to change design of EPR nuclear reactors following troubles of the China one – (making it up as they go?)  Protest against radioactivity-contaminated water, at French nuclear site.

SWITZERLAND. Swiss nuclear power plant reduces output to protect fish during heatwave.

USA. Was Obama right about Russia-Ukraine? Biden Rebuked for ‘Openly Praising War Profiteering’ at Lockheed Martin. The Great American Military Rebrand.         Leaked documents – Facebook ‘Bot’ adviser secretly in the pay of USA regime change agency.    President Biden’s $6 billion effort to save distressed” nuclear power plants is misguided. No operational need, and no climate case for the nuclear power industry -The Electricity Journal . MidAmerican shouldn’t waste money studying small nuclear reactors. The lingering horror of thorium radioactive poisoning in West Chicago .

Extreme heat warnings in effect in 28 states across US.

CANADA. Nuclear industry veteran to lead nuclear waste group’s board – ( the revolving industry-govt door)

IRAN. Iran critical of President Biden telling Israelis that USA is ready to use force against Iran . ‘Israeli cell planted explosives at nuclear facility,’ Iran media says.

JAPAN. Japan halts shipment of black rockfish caught off Fukushima over radiation. Japan’s nuclear regulator formally approves release of Fukushima wastewater to the Pacific. Japan approves nuclear-contaminated water discharge plan, may turn Japanese people into ‘sick men of Asia,’ seafood consumption and export nosedive. Stiff resistance by fishing unions to Japan’s move to dump Fukushima nuclear wastewater into the ocean.        Fukushima bosses ordered to pay billions for failing to prevent nuclear disaster.    Shinzo Abe Failed to Rearm Japan. Let’s Keep It That Way.

UK. 

• The brutal reality of the US-UK ‘Special Relationship’, and the persecution of Julian Assange. 
• British soldiers used as radiation guinea pigs in nuclear bomb tests in Australia.
• Time for the UK government to tell the truth about nuclear power, 
• Against advice of the Planning Inspectorate the UK’s interim government gives go-ahead to Sizewell C nuclear power plant. B1 Government gives go-ahead to ‘monumental modern folly’ The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) condemns ludicrous Sizewell C planning approval.  UK govt to decide on whether or not £20bn Sizewell C nuclear power plant should go ahead.
•  EDF worried that its delays in building Hinkley Point C nuclear station might lessen the huge subsidies it gets from the UK government. EDF’s new demand means that Hinkley Point C will be further delayed, with costs escalating to £34 billion. Sizewell-C. Proposed change to how Hinkley Point C stores radioactive waste. 
• Consultation on proposed changes to storage of radioactive wastes at Hinkley Point C NPP. Millom and Haverigg being conned by nuclear industry over waste dump, claims former councillor.  Anti-nuclear forces gather in Wales. Greencoat Capital Investing might be turning yellow – swallowing the climate lies of the nuclear industry. All at Sea: Energy Security Bill reveals UK government preference to dump waste offshore. Guardians of the East Coast (Gotec) fight to stop nuclear waste dumping in the sea near holiday resorts UK. 
• Nuclear regulators have found “clear breaches” of safety rules while investigating a chemical leak at the Dounreay plant .

RUSSIA. Russia’s Rosatom to take legal action against Finland company, over terminated €7 billion nuclear power plant project.

GERMANY. Germany criminalizes journalist for exposing Ukrainian war crimes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4-1qhGvbu4

AUSTRIA. Visit of the Slovak Prime Minister to Vienna: Disagreement on Nuclear Technology Issues.

RUSSIA. Russia to Scrap World’s Largest Nuclear Submarine.

ISRAEL. ISRAEL AND THE NUCLEAR NORM

AUSTRALIA.  Documents show Australian Labor government supports Assange’s extradition to the US. INSIDE LABOR’S ASSANGE GAME PLAN.

Militarism and submarines:   The tragic obsession with the Chinese threat. 

July 25, 2022 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina's notes | Leave a comment