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As the global corporate media fawns over the nuclear industry, The Guardian has the guts to do some REAL INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM .

If you type in “Google News” , and then “Nuclear” you will get an endless list of pro nuclear headlines: Nuclear power is the only solution – EU says nuclear is clean after all – Nuclear power finally has its moment at UN climate summit – Nuclear power deserves a place in the clean energy mix ……….Nuclear power takes center stage at COP 28 – Triple nuclear power by 2050 to address climate change. Climate is the focus this week, though usually it is praise for Small Nuclear Reactors (SMRs).

It’s understandable. Journalists want to keep their jobs. News Media want to stay “respectable” with powerful businesses and governments. So – they toe the line, dutifully regurgitating the pro nuclear handouts given to them by powerful businesses and governments.

But hey! What happened? This week the Guardian went way off script! Their naughty journalists – Anna Isaac and Alex Lawson have gone and done a whole heap of burrowing, excavating, doggedly pursuing – the facts about Sellafield. They’ve found safety concerns, risks to other countries, endless costs of endless toxic wastes, hacking, radioactive leaks and toxic workplace culture.

What could Isaac and Lawson be thinking of? And What bad taste! Just as The IAEA and global nuclear lobby are pitching themselves as our saviour at the climate summit.

And – have they committed professional suicide? Will The Guardian now be damned as a “suspicious website”?

The other possibility is – that other journalists and media might now show a bit of backbone, and start taking an interest in telling us the truth about the nuclear industry.

December 8, 2023 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized