The week in nuclear news (but climate news is Big)

Some bits of good news: What went right this week? The good news you should know about – It was a good week for green energy – money deserting fossil fuels – An English city prepared to host a refugee festival.

Climate. Insurance giant halts sale of new home policies in California due to wildfires. Sea level rise will “disappear” California’s famed beaches . Thawing glaciers around Everest show critical need to stop greenhouse emissions . More than 1,500 arrested at Extinction Rebellion protest in The Hague.

Christina notes: It’s the CLIMATE, stupid!

Nuclear. News on climate is so genuinely awesome – to use the proper meaning of the word – that it really does dwarf nuclear news. But the nuclear lying goes on – the pretense that small reactors will be economic and will solve global heating. THat’s such a distraction from real action.

TOP STORIES

Slowing ocean current caused by melting Antarctic ice could have drastic climate impact, study says. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KlpKq3YEdM

America’s Wars and the US Debt Crisis.

G7 Leaders Falter Over Nuclear Disarmament in Hiroshima.

Sending F-16 planes to Ukraine will create a new Cuban Missile -style nuclear crisis .

Ukraine’s neighbors push for Zelensky to pursue peace as millions of displaced people flow into Europe. ‘Independent’ Ukrainian ‘kill list’ actually run by Kiev, backed by Washington.

Ukraine: Power loss at nuclear plant underscores ‘highly vulnerable’ safety situation.

Atmospheric Testing of Nuclear Weapons in the 1950s and 1960s

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CIVIL LIBERTIES. Australian Prime Minister Albanese refuses to meet with Assange’s wife.

CLIMATE. Hinkley Point C – Why nuclear power accelerates carbon emissions. A clean energy transition means moving away from nuclear power.

CULTURE and ARTS. Everything’s Getting Way More Dangerous And Way More Stupid.

ECONOMICS.

Director General Grossi Highlights China as Indispensable IAEA Partner, Leader in Nuclear Energy.
Nuclear power won’t help Maine reach its clean-energy goals,
French defense minister opposes American takeover of nuclear firm.
Point Lepreau nuclear power station – too many expensive shutdowns.
Damning critique of Rolls Royce Rolls Royce to cut thousands of jobs. .
Marketing: USA pours $billions into Poland, in effort to market USA’s small and large nuclear reactors to Europe. Romania to be a guinea pig for NuScam’s small nuclear reactor folly. Putin bribes ‘friendly nations’ with use of 24-hour ‘floating nuclear power stations’.

ENERGY. US Electricity From Renewable Energy Beat Electricity From Coal Or Nuclear In 2022. Taiwan Considers Keeping Nuclear Reactors on Emergency Standby.

ENVIRONMENT. China firmly opposes Japan’s discharge of Fukushima nuclear-contaminated water into sea. South Korean experts to continue analysis of Fukushima water discharge. South Korean nuclear experts to tour Fukushima plant amid water concerns. Pacific islanders are not convinced that the release of Fukushima wastewater is safe . Nuclear & Toxic Chemicals.

HEALTH. Public health expert says Fukushima waste water release a retrograde step, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_WcZZq9JTU

LEGAL.Court rejects case opposing restart of Miyagi Prefecture nuclear plant.

MEDIA. 60 Minutes Australia Keeps Churning Out War-With-China Propaganda. Review | Netflix drama review: The Days – Netflix Fukushima nuclear disaster series starring Koji Yakusho is an enthralling account of the 2011 event, with strong hints of HBO’s Chernobyl.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQkb7fCr2bQ

NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY. Canadian reactors that “recycle” plutonium would create more problems than they solve. Nuke Power’s “Renaissance 4.0” Has Already Melted. No, There Won’t Be Nuclear-Powered Commercial Shipping This Time Either.

POLITICS.

New Zealand won’t give up its nuclear-free stance, says Prime Minister Chris Hipkins.
An Open Letter to the Australian Government from concerned scholars regarding the AUKUS Agreement.
While Sullivan and Wang build ‘guardrails’: where is Mr Blinken?
Rishi Sunak ‘turns his back’ on UK’s nuclear test veterans a year after pledging support.
Israel’s New Minister for Nuclear Absurdity.
Nuclear power is neither reliable nor ‘green’ and is not suitable for South Africa’s just transition.
Taiwan Government’s nuclear-free policy remains unchanged: Cabinet

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.

Ukraine: Why Negotiations Are the Only Rational Option in the Face of Climate Chaos and Nuclear Dangers.
Hiroshima Survivor Slams G7 Leaders for Embracing War & Rejecting Nuclear Disarmament. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66tf6Ki7sdM. Elders say – Nuclear states must now act following G7 statement – Mary Robinson. G7 has descended into an ‘anti-China workshop’. Visiting a park is not paying respects:the appalling failure of the G7 to act on nuclear disarmament.
France holds up EU energy agreement over nuclear power.
After AP report, Iran’s nuclear chief says Tehran to cooperate with inspectors on ‘new activities’.
Irony Or What! India “Sidelines” Russia For US Nuclear Tech, But US Remains ‘Critically Dependent’ On Russian Nuke Fuel.

PROTESTS. A Mothers Day protest: Activists blockaded the entrance to the US 2 Navy’s west-coast nuclear submarine base.

RADIATION. Trident: Ministry of Defence confirms more than 50 radiation leaks this year.

SAFETY. Fukushima reactor 1 found to have damaged pedestal supporting nuclear core. Japan Nuclear Watchdog Asks Fukushima Plant Operator to Assess Reactor Risk. World’s Biggest Nuclear Plant Kashiwazaki-Kariwa May Stay Closed Due to Papers Left on Car Roof. Groups Warn Biden that Ukraine War Shows Attacks on Nuclear Plants ‘Could Happen Here’. Nuclear Security: Department Of Energy Should Take Actions to Fully Implement Insider Threat Program.

SECRETS and LIES. Ukraine admits to murdering “quite a few” Russian civilians. Ukraine claims Russia is plotting ‘a provocation’ at nuclear plant, offers no evidence.

SPINBUSTER. Clean energy transition sparks nuclear reaction. Nuclear Turns Fashionable.

URANIUM. U.S. planning test reactor to run on weapons-grade uranium.

WASTES. IAEA team in Japan for final review before planned discharge of Fukushima nuclear plant water. What we know about the federal government’s ongoing nuclear waste plans in New Mexico. Gordon Edwards explains, and comments on. Canada’s policy on radioactive waste and nuclear decommissioning. In Australia civil cociety faces imposition of an AUKUS military High Level nuclear waste dump.

Since Cold War. Russia Issues Dire Warning After US Approves Ukrainian Strikes On Crimea. Russia moves ahead with deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus. Russia Claims Group Crossed Border From Ukraine In Attack. Russia evacuates nuclear munitions due to incursion from Ukraine into Belgorodoblast-Ukraine’s Intel. Belgorod Attacks | Russia Removes Nuclear Warheads From Grayvoron Amid Attacks

Russian vessel attacked by Ukrainian sea drones off Bosporus. Ex-Pentagon Analyst: Biden Faces Shrinking Options on Ukraine. A grim vision of nuclear warfare in Ukraine. Russia warns about nuclear power war risk.

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES.

‘Cold feet’: Big problems emerge in controversial US-Australia submarine deal. AUKUS nuclear submarine bases in Western Australia will seriously weaken current safeguards against nuclear weapons proliferation. Transferring US nuclear subs to Australia far from smooth sailing. Aukus ‘expensive’ and not ‘easy to replicate’.
US sends largest warship ever constructed to Norway.
Russia to move newest nuclear sub to Pacific in August.
Iran Builds an Underground and Possibly Unreachable Nuclear Facility.
Nuclear umbrella to protect Taiwan could be globally catastrophic.
A Nuclear Collision Course in South Asia. Can the Pakistan-India nuclear deterrence hold – in the nuclearisation of South Asia in the New Nuclear Age.
Belarusian president offers nuclear weapons to those willing to join his alliance.

May 30, 2023 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina's notes

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A radioactive cloud from depleted munitions spread across europe. The usa is fomenting nuclear war. The usa is sliding into mayhem, genocide and murder. The human race is a failure

Comment by Tn | May 30, 2023 | Reply
The ukrainians are commiting terrorist bombings, in russia. The us is encouraging it. It is going beyond the cuban-missile crisis. If it continues to escalate, there will be nuclear war, by august.

Comment by Tra | May 30, 2023 | Reply
- Tra. Thanks for your comment. As you see, I have deleted your sentence of personal attack on Biden.
  
  Comment by Christina Macpherson | May 30, 2023 | Reply
  - As Biden admitted, the fake fight over the Debt Ceiling was really fight over the budget, in which there were 2 sides making demands: rightwing GOP and far right GOP. The Dems asked for nothing & got less. The Far Right demanded all they could think of, got it & now wants more
    
    The point is. The debt ceiling only exists to provide BIDEN an excuse for imposing austerity on social & environmental0 programs while funding an ever-expanding defense budget.
    Both trump and biden are old right wing warmongers. Biden supported the iraq war. Biden made it so poor people could not declare bankrupsy on stupid hi interest credit card debts. Biden sold out poor americans just this week when we were promised more over trump..Biden said he protested for nelson mandela in 1980 which is a total lie. Biden openly affiliated with racists while in congress. We expected more when he promised to help us after trumps reign of terror. trump says african americans are inferior and biden african americans corn pops. We can see his true colors now and he has sold america and the world down the swer. Biden was Great friends with arch kulkluxklan member byrd and strom thurmond from 1973 on . Biden just soldseveral disabled friends of minedown thesewer by takingaway their medical benefits and ability to buy food. 3 of my friends will not beableto buy insulin anymoreand they will die. Biden is paving the way for fascist devil trump to win in 2024. It is so grotesque
    Biden and his fellow neoliberal masters of Hollow Resistance and inauthentic opposition always have good reasons for engaging in their favorite hobby: caving.
    Are we supposed to be surprised that Biden has recently weakened his supposed firm line on the debt-ceiling crisis? His whole long Senatorial and Vice-Presidential career was a deeply conservative monument to corporate and imperialist collaboration “across the aisle.” His 2021 infrastructure bill was an epic cave:Biden accepted a watered down $1.2 trillion infrastructure deal with Republicans which coldly slashed trillions of dollars originally designated for climate action and social programs. He sold this miserable surrender as a vindication of his longstanding commitment to “reach across the political aisle.” Never mind that the party to his right had gone fascist and that many Republicans in Congress had absurdly voted against the certification of his election on January 6.
    Joe Biden is 80 years old. When he runs for reelection in 2024 he will be 81. If he is elected again he will be 82 years old when he is sworn in and 86 years old when his new term comes to an end. Joe Biden is well beyond the competence needed to be president physically and mentally As someone who has is close to passing both of those milestones, I can tell the president from my own experience, that, his self-confidence notwithstanding, age takes its toll and it will affect him just as it affects all the others who have passed those milestones. He has been a creepy rightwing democrat since he got into congress in 1973 with borderline competence even caught plagiarizing speechs several times when younger. He is reponsible for stricter sentencing guidelines for petty drug offences with his idol ronald reagan that balooned the prison population of youg black me in the 80s .
    Why should people in the usa only have the choice of two incompetent old.rightwing devils trump and biden Sadly, the price to be paid for the toll age takes on Joe will be paid not only by Joe and his family, but by the United States of America. So sad.
    Biden went into ukraine whole heartedly with repuklikans like lindsay graham. My friend is disabled and on food stamps her kids will not have health insurance or enough food for her kids because of what this cowardly sell out has done so that 1.1 trillion can be allocated for more nukes and hell and destruction around the world and possible ww3 in ukraine w china what the hell is the matter w u christina?
    
    Comment by Aambin | May 31, 2023
  - to Aambin. Well – terrific comment. It is fair enough to attack the policies and actions that Biden has taken – they surely don’t reflect well on him.
    What I get fed up with are the short and nasty comments – e.g ” evil bastard, the demented old nincompoop” which also don’t contain any real .information.
    
    Comment by Christina Macpherson | May 31, 2023