Nuclear news this week
I had trouble finding “good news” for today. So, I’ll put in a thought of my own. My own country, Australia, today gives some hope, For the first time, we have a government really trying to include our First Nations people in decision-making. Not only is Australia headed for a referendum to bring indigenous voices into our Parliament – with hope to redress the wrongs of 200 years, but also the hope that indigenous knowledge and culture will advise and further the mighty task of healing our damaged environment.
Coronavirus and Climate – it’s all drastically bad- the mind boggles – best for readers to do their homework on these.
Nuclear. Ironically, as nations ramp up their nuclear weaponry – comes the anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZSENcK-en4 At some commemorations. survivors like Setsuko Thurlow will be speaking. Like the survivors of Auschwitz, these first witnesses may not be with us much longer. It is all-important that their message is remembered, and that denialism of these truly awful horrors does not prevail.
The World Does Not Want a Global NATO.
Deterrencelessness: Nuclear threats neither credible nor viable.
UN Nuclear Review: a prime time to stop the new arms race. Ukraine War Hangs Over UN Meeting on Nuclear Treaty’s Legacy. U.N. nuclear conference to start Monday as Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya plant in “alarming” state, watchdog says.
For Warmongers It’s Always 1938. US airman who rescued film of A-bomb horrors is honoured at last.
Small nuclear reactors will bleed us dry and won’t solve climate change – unfounded promises.
The future of global catastrophic risk events from climate change.
UKRAINE. Russia accused of waging war out of working nuclear power plant in Ukraine. How professional lobbyists have worked to generate enthusiasm in Washington for a long proxy military conflict in Ukraine. High risks at Chornobyl.
FRANCE. French finance minister and MPs clash over future of nuclear power. France should “rethink the temperature thresholds of rivers”. Nuclear giant EDF and waste company Veolia continue to do business with Russia – the nuclear industry gets uranium from Russia, and sends wastes there. Protest against radioactivity-contaminated water, at French nuclear site.
ASIA. Nuclear Weapons Policies of Japan and South Korea Challenged.
JAPAN. Backlash over dumping of nuclear waste-water to the ocean . Japan to push for nuclear arms reduction at NPT review conference. Kishida to call for nuke-free world in historic address at U.N. treaty conference.
UK.
- Small nuclear reactors the solution to climate problems? The facts suggest otherwise.
- EDF forced to redesign UK nuclear reactors after horror leaks at Chinese sites.
- Campaign groups in Wales join to fight nuclear power plans.
- Scotland’s government dithering about nuclear power.
- Rolls Royce hyping up risky and unproven small nuclear reactors.
- Glascow City Council not informed when nuclear weapons convoys pass through city.
- Latest Research – Baseload generators such as Sizewell C nuclear power plants are not needed in an all-renewable future and their use would simply increase costs. A new nuclear power station needs a vast supply of water. But where will Sizewell C get it from? Grief for the abuse of nature that will come with Sizewell C nuclear station.
- Hinkley Point B nuclear power station to close permanently, due to safety concerns. UK to be left for 1000s of years with Hinkley Point B’s legacy of nuclear waste.
- Undersea nuclear waste dump off Cumbria would imperil marine life, experts warn. Is it environmentally sound to bury a massive stockpile of nuclear waste beneath the ocean floor? Probably not
USA.
- How Would Space Be Used In War? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng2kLh2Ez3Y
- Western states join New Mexico in resisting nuclear waste storage without state consent. Nuclear Waste Cleanup: Hanford Site Cleanup Costs Continue to Rise, but Opportunities Exist to Save Tens of Billions of Dollars.
- Westinghouse could get a 40 year license renewal for its nuclear fuel fabrication plant , despite safety concerns. SC nuclear fuel plant gets 40-year operating license – a ‘‘license to pollute”. Dead fish near SC nuclear fuel site were an early warning. Then came the spills and accidents.
CANADA. Pickering nuclear station is closing as planned, despite calls for refurbishment.
IRAN Iran will keep IAEA cameras turned off until nuclear deal is restored. Lawmaker Says Iran Nuclear Talks Will Resume In Coming Days.
AUSTRALIA. Australia urged to prove it is a safe nuclear custodian as Aukus comes under scrutiny at UN. Fleet of nuclear submarines will be sent by Britain to Australia as a warning to China. Indonesia warns of perils of nuclear-powered submarines in submission to the UN.
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Harry Truman and the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Frank Jackson, 9 Aug 20 Whether the bombing of Hiroshima or the entry of the Soviet Union into the war was the crucial event in causing the Japanese surrender can never be conclusively settled (Hiroshima at 75: bitter row persists over US decision to drop the bomb, 5 August). However, very little is said about the motives for the second bomb, on Nagasaki three days later. Few argued that it was necessary to reinforce the message of Hiroshima. Rather, the military and scientific imperative was to test a different bomb design – “Fat Man”, an implosion type using plutonium, as opposed to the uranium of Hiroshima’s “Little Boy”. To my mind that, destroying a mainly civilian city for such reasons, makes it even more of a war crime, if that is possible, than the bombing of Hiroshim.a
Frank Jackson
Former co-chair, World Disarmament Campaign https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/07/harry-truman-and-the-nuclear-bombs-dropped-on-hiroshima-and-nagasaki
“Shinda Onnanoko” (“Dead Girl”), by Nâzim Hikmet, translated into Japanese by Nobuyuki Nakamoto
I come and stand at every door
But no one hears my silent tread.
I knock and yet remain unseen
For I am dead, for I am dead.
I’m only seven, although I died
In Hiroshima long ago.
I’m seven now as I was then.
When children die, they do not grow.
My hair was scorched by swirling flame.
My eyes grew dim; my eyes grew blind.
Death came and turned my bones to dust
And that was scattered by the wind.
I need no fruit, I need no rice.
I need no sweets, nor even bread.
I ask for nothing for myself
For I am dead, for I am dead.
All that I ask is that for peace
You fight today, you fight today
So that the children of the world
May live and grow and laugh and play.
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nuclear-news 
The world is very lucky to have this website.
The climate catastrophe, is progressing parallel and synergistically with the nuclear pollution, catastrophe of the world. I read this recently in an article here, about France.
“Western culture has evolved from a world-view that Man is superior to all creation. And we’re still well and truly in that world view. Indigenous cultures might have a different view – but hell – they don’t matter, do they? After all, they’ve never invented anything really clever – like nuclear technology, with the power to kill us all.”
Beatty Nevada Nuclear waste explosions, in the desert.
Explosions of nuclear waste from pieces of decommissioned San onofre reactor, by San diego.The pieces of the reactor and the other waste from the San Diego, San Onofre reactor decommissioning, started blowing up in the desert outside beatty Nevada. Later the San onofre nuclear waste was dug up and transfered, to a nuclear waste facility outside salt lake city Utah. The explosions, were caused by the decay heat and pyrophoricty of the radionuclides, in the waste and that had accumulated on the reactor pieces.
We simply, don’t get to learn from the mainstream media, about these radioactive hazards.
New Mexico was on fire this summer. 800 thousand acres burned. So much nuclear waste and fallout, in New Mexico, from bomb building and testing. I would not be surprised, if there is a major uptick in lung cancers, and other cancers, in New Mexico in the next 5 years . Nuke bombs exploded under rivers in New Mexico, project gas buggy. Uranium waste catastrophes. Nuclear waste dumps in many places. Largest plutonium core operation in the world at Los Alamos, by Santa fe. Wipp plutonium dump, by Clovis.
These explosions were caused by parts of the decommisioned, highly radioactive pieces of the San onofre reactor, buried in Nevada for a few years. They had to dqqig them up, after the explosions and, moved them to utah. You would have thought, peopke in Utah, would have known better.
Steppenwolf just stick yur head into the sand, pretend that all is grand and everything will be ok
This will happen at other shoddy nuclear waste operations in the usa. Typically under-regulated, and under supervised by cheap and mismanaged, foreign owned nuclear waste management companies. Give them an inch and, they take a mile. They bribe state legislators and start taking in nuclear waste, from other countries. Countries like Japan and Estonia. That happened at the white mesa nuke waste operation, by blanding, utah. I think there is greater risk of wildfires, in the white mesa area, from the pryophoric effects of radionuclide dust from white mesa, blowing into surrounding areas.. There was a truck full of nuke waste owned by energy fuels, by Salt Lake City, that caught fire in 2018. The white mesa, energy fuel operation is trucking in nuke waste, from all over the world.
Radionuclides generate their own heat and can start fires on their own even in small amounts, like the plutonium did at rocky flats. That is why the US Armed forces, uses depleted uranium in bombs, bullets and, other munitions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Flats_Plant
https://www.osti.gov/biblio/515622
Wildfires and cancer
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(22)00067-5/fulltext
More wildfires and cancer
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2022/05/17/wildfires-cancer-risk-study/5531652723109/
Wildfires are increasing cancer rates in the World.
https://thescotfree.com/opinion/incident-at-santa-susana-a-meltdown-a-fire-and-a-cover-up/
A very important item, thank you, Terry. It will go up as a post, later today. Frightening stuff !