Nuclear news – week to 18 March

Some bits of good news. Notable wins in climate and environmental justice. Scotland made rewilding progress. The Danish City Reimagining Reuse.

TOP STORIES. Why the US is trying to imprison Assange: Report from inside the Court.

Reversing Europe’s and Australia’s slide into irrelevance & insecurity – National Press Club of Australia speech- Yanis Varoufakis.

There is no such thing as a “nuclear waste-eating” reactor .

Nuclear industry wants Canada to lift ban on reprocessing plutonium, despite proliferation risks.

Cold turkeys: The demise of nuclear power.

Conditions i nside Fukushima’s melted nuclear reactors still unclear 13 years after disaster struck – also at https://nuclear-news.net/2024/03/14/3-a-conditions-inside-fukushimas-melted-nuclear-reactors-still-unclear-13-years-after-disaster-struck/

Climate. ‘Greenhushing’ Is On the Rise as Companies Go Silent on Climate Pledges.

Nuclear. Australia media – normally focussed on football, has a spasm about nuclear. Rest of the anglophone world gives climate, nuclear, a nod, amongst gaffes of UK royalty, and fashion, celebrities and sport. Gaza gets a mention, too,

Noel’s notes. Julian Assange, atrocities, nuclear war, AI, “Oppenheimer”, and the whole damn thing. AUKUS nuclear pact – a lame duck? Nuclear power and the ignorance of journalists – it’s almost criminal.

nb. Huge number of articles on nuclear in the Australian media. From next week, I will cut them back to just a representative few.

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AUSTRALIA. (There are more articles than this – but I had to stop!)

Decisions on the Northern Water Project could protect GAB Mound Springs from BHP impacts OR condemn the Springs to ‘ongoing degradation’
NUCLEAR POWER STATIONS ARE NOT APPROPRIATE FOR AUSTRALIA – AND NEVER WILL BE. Pentagon sparks fresh AUKUS doubts on anniversary of Australia’s nuclear-powered submarine plans. AUKUS anniversary brings a sinking feeling. Dead in the Water- The AUKUS Delusion. – PIC Turnbull says Australia ‘mugged by reality’ on Aukus deal as US set to halve submarine build.
Dutton’s blast of radioactive rhetoric on nuclear power leaves facts in the dust . Refuting Peter Dutton’s recycled nuclear contamination. Coalition will seek a social licence for nuclear: Dutton. Opposition eyeing off six sites for nuclear reactors, Dutton’s nuclear plan will require huge subsidies. AUKwardUS: Peter Dutton’s Albo nuclear wedge may cost us hundreds of billions, ABC interview- Sarah Ferguson and Tom O’Brien – a case study in exposing Trumpian-style deceptive spin. Nuclear power in Australia — a silver bullet or white elephant?
Peter Dutton refuses to say where his nuclear reactors will go. CSIRO chief warns against ‘disparaging science’ after Peter Dutton criticises nuclear energy costings. ‘The most beige person’:T ed O’Brien, The man behind the Coalition’s nuclear plans. Surf Coast federal member rejects nuclear reactor in region.
The Government will dictate where the high level nuclear dump will be.
Australia’s biggest smelter to launch massive wind and solar tender, says nuclear too costly. Victorian Premier blasts nuclear plan as renewable appeals curbed.

NUCLEAR ISSUES

ARTS and CULTURE. The ideology of war in Ukraine and Israel.

ECONOMICS. HSBC leads Sizewell C investment push as time ticks on final investment decision.
NuScale nuclear power is among Top 5 Industrials Stocks That May Fall Off A Cliff In Q1.

EMPLOYMENT, Dounreay workers vote on strike action after pay talks stall,

MEDIA.
Hollywood stars put their name to a good message, but it’s the messengers who are problematic.
Film poses moral questions about 2011 Fukushima disaster displacement . The Film RADIOACTIVE: The women of Three Mile Island will start streaming on Apple TV and Amazon Prime Video from March 12. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is3jlNhicFY

Keep Your Money Out of Nukes! Anti-Nuclear Financial Fitness w/Domini’s Mary Beth Gallagher: PODCAST.
UN report finds Israel deliberately targeted journalists – Reuters.

OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Bridgwater activists shine light on nuclear power in UK.

POLITICS.Japan’s Nuclear Energy Policy Disaster. Japan Ramps Up Drive to Restart World’s Biggest Nuclear Plant.

Ralph Nader: Open Letter to President Biden 3.12.24. Decision time Democrats: Oppose Biden’s genocide in Gaza or tacitly support it.

UK Steps Up Sizewell Nuclear Push With State-Backed Loans. UK’s Spring budget a ‘myopic sop’ to nuclear obsessives. UK government plans to block foreign control of newspapers – what about foreign control of Sizewell nuclear project ?The U.S. Is Betting Big on Small Nuclear Reactors (done up with green paint)

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. French president Emmanuel Macron tells Putin ‘WE are a nuclear power and WE are ready’ in latest WW3 rhetoric.

As ‘Oppenheimer’ wins big, we should worry about lowering of nuclear thresholds.

PROTESTS. In pre-election messaging, Putin less strident on nuclear war.

PUBLIC OPINION.
‘Don’t hold your breath’ – people living in Wylfa’s shadow have say on nuclear development plans.

SAFETY. Incidents. Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant reports shelling by Ukraine army
Shelling continues near Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station.

Observing the 45th Anniversary of the Worst U.S. Commercial Nuclear Power Plant Accident.

SECRETS and LIES.
The International Atomic Energy Agency recruiting spies?

SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS.
Musk’s SpaceX is building spy satellite network for US intelligence agency, sources say

SPINBUSTER. Exposing myths about building French nuclear power.
IAEA director’s visit to Japan widely questioned, seeks to downplay nuclear water dumping.
TECHNOLOGY. La Hague reprocessing plant: expansion and continued operation until at least 2100.
WAR and CONFLICT. Putin warns again that Russia is ready to use nuclear weapons if its sovereignty is threatened.

Will Biden’s, NATO’s military personnel in Ukraine cross the last red line to Armageddon?

Netanyahu approves Rafah ground invasion, despite Biden opposition.

War Games in Arctic: What’s Driving the West’s New Passion?

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Paves Way for Increase in Production in Commercial Reactors of Tritium for Nuclear Weapons.

Huge UK £286bn nuclear submarine deal with US at risk for one reason warns ex Navy chief.

EU to use Russian assets to buy arms for Ukraine – Scholz.

March 19, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina's notes

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Australians already know that nuclear is too expensive too dangerous and totally unnecessary for their energy needs. They don’t have the rivers and only ocean water to cool any reactors. They have abundant wind and solar potential to meet their energy needs.

Comment by paulrodenlearning | March 19, 2024 | Reply