This week in nuclear news

A bit of good news. Illegal to marry below 18 – Zambia passes the landmark Marriage (Amendment) Act, 2023

TOP STORIES.

Mary Kostakidis: Assange’s Very Life Is at Stake.

‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 127: Growing international alarm over Israeli plans to invade Rafah.

Full Speed Ahead on the Global Titanic -Going Along with the Utter Madness of Nuclear Weapons.

Small Modular Reactors do not solve the many problems of nuclear, NGOs say.

Rich men with the wrong answers – nuclear power has no future and yet they persist.

From the archives. Nuclear expert Mycle Schneider on the COP28 pledge to triple nuclear energy production: ‘Trumpism enters energy policy”

Climate. Atlantic Ocean circulation nearing ‘devastating’ tipping point, study finds. Hottest January on record sees the world reach 1.7°C warming mark.

Nuclear. Very hard to exclude all the Israel-Gaza news – which could bring on nuclear war anyway!

Noel’s notes. Why we get distorted, unreliable, news about Ukraine and Israel. Against all the evidence – nuclear industry propaganda blunders on – and the media regurgitates its nonsense!

NUCLEAR ISSUES

CLIMATE. European Union now promoting the lie that nuclear power is “green”.
REVIEW CONFERENCE: CLIMATE CRISIS – WHY NUCLEAR IS NOT HELPING - also at

CIVIL LIBERTIES. UK steps up war on whistleblower journalism with new National Security Act.

ECONOMICS. The clock is ticking on the nuclear renaissance. – also at Rolls-Royce snubbed for UK’s first private small nuclear reactor plant.
EDF’s nuclear struggles dampen EU nuclear prospects – the industry “on a slow descent to hell”.

EMPLOYMENT France: EDF Faces Unprecedented Nuclear Workload in France,

ETHICS and RELIGION. All is fair in A.I. warfare. But what do Christian ethics have to say?
The West: guilty of genocide.

EVENTS.
19 February - Webinar with Dr Helen Caldicott and Martin Sheen

INDIGENOUS ISSUES. Tribes condemn start of uranium mining at Pinyon Plain Mine south of Grand Canyon

LEGAL. 100 Jewish Cease-Fire Supporters Arrested Blocking Biden’s NYC Motorcade Route.
Canada citizens challenge environmental safety of Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission waste facility near Ottawa River.

MEDIA. CNN’s CEO Is Making Staff Churn Out Israel Propaganda. CNN staff say network’s pro-Israel slant amounts to ‘journalistic malpractice’.
“In The War Of Propaganda, It Is Very Difficult To Defeat The United States”.
Study Finds Media Giants NY Times, CNN and Fox News Pushing for US War in Yemen.
Chicago T ribune needs reality check on Russo Ukraine war.

OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . History repeats — and radiation radiates.
Campaigners deeply concerned at Dr Thérèse Coffey’s support for Bradwell new nuclear power .

POLITICS. Nuclearization is underway. Or not.. (also at

The future of nuclear: France’s nuclear dreams or nightmares?

The folly of Ontario’s nuclear power play.

Iran Plans More Nuclear Reactors Despite Serious Hurdles.
Do the Right Thing: Put the South African Government’s Nuclear Plans to a Popular Referendum. Call to withdrawal from Holderness nuclear waste site talks amid tourism and farming ‘fears’.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. Report: Egypt warns Israel Rafah offensive may lead to suspension of peace treaty. Western officials in protest over Israel Gaza policy
Israel Aid Bill Fails in House as Progressives Slam ‘Blank Check for Netanyahu’. Walt Zlotow: Biden seeks $14 more billion to complete destruction of Palestinians in Gaza.
EU Policy. Commission invites industry to join support platform for mini nuclear.
Menaced by five Omnicides – Ralph Nader.
Putin ‘tried everything possible’ to make peace – Ukrainian diplomat.

SAFETY. Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant is falling apart, and the world is ignoring the danger . The dangerous craze for SMRs – also at IAEA watchdog to visit nuclear plant in occupied Ukraine to assess safety of ageing fuel and low staffing.

France’s Flamanville EPR has numerous technical problems which mean that its safety issues are not “now closed”.

SECRETS and LIES. Absence of Evidence: Israel’s Case Against UNRWA.

SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. Nuclear secret: India’s space program uses plutonium pellets to power missions

WAR and CONFLICT. Escalating to de-escalate with nuclear weapons: Research shows it’s a particularly bad idea.
The pragmatist’s guide to nuclear disarmament.
NATO-Russia confrontation ‘could last decades’ – Stoltenberg.
Israeli PM orders evacuation of last Gaza ‘safe zone’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l59LjI4XoA

Worst places in Australia to be if World War Three hits.

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. Noetic Continental | Part I: How CIA Foists Military Equipment Through Private War Companies.

Over $1 Billion in Weapons Missing In Ukraine. Why Biden’s $61 billion in weapons for Ukraine won’t prevent inevitable defeat.

Citing World Court, Japan Firm Cuts Ties With Israel Arms Maker.