Nuclear and associated news this week

Some bits of good news – High Seas Treaty: EU votes to ratify landmark international law to protect oceans. ‘I want to tackle it in a big way’: Meet the Nigerian women spearheading solar projects

Bankers upgrade Lockheed stock after Iran strikes at Israel.

New civil nuclear programmes crossing over into military nuclear programmes.

Nuclear-waste dams threaten Central Asia heartland– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExuDrRYHmDE

Climate. Tens of thousands evacuated from massive China floods. Europe baked in ‘extreme heat stress’ pushing temperatures to record highs. Heatwave in India: TV host faints during live broadcast as swaths of country reel from sweltering temperatures.

Noel’s notes. Japan – the return of the “Nuclear Village“? Ukraine war – the changing face of weaponry. The failed social species – Homo-not-sapiens-at-all. Oh it’s a great time to be an American – with shares in “Defense” companies!

NUCLEAR ISSUES

CIVIL LIBERTIES. The McCarthyist Attack on Gaza Protests Threatens Free Thought for All.

ECONOMICS. Price tag for Poland’s first nuclear plant may reach $37bn.
Nuclear Power’s Lethal, Larcenous End Game. Rolls Royce scales back plans to build nuclear factories in UK.

EDUCATION. Crackdown On Students And Information As Genocide Widens.

ENERGY. The astonishing growth of renewable energy.

ENVIRONMENT. Unstable nuclear-waste dams threaten fertile Central Asia heartland. Indian Nuclear Sites Impact South Tibetan Plateau Radioactivity. Chernobyl – the Cloud Lingers On.

ETHICS and RELIGION. Zionism Is In Its Flop Era. Acknowledging the Horrors of Gaza—Without Wanting to End Them.

EVENTS. National Not-the-Nuclear-Lobby Returns to Parliament Hill, Ottawa. www.uraniumfilmfestival.org / https://uraniumfilmfestival.org/en/usacanada-2024-program / https://uraniumfilmfestival.org/…/2024_las_vegas…

HEALTH. Nuclear test campaigner demands access to medical files.

MEDIA. Cruelty of Language — The New York Times’ Leaked Gaza Memo.

Inside Fukushima’s red zone: Eerie pictures show abandoned schools, hospitals and shopping malls frozen in time 13 years after .nuclear disaster in Japan

OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Nuclear-Free Future Awards unite unsung heroes.

No Drones Over Gaza Or Anywhere!

PLUTONIUM. NNSA Delays Urgent Research on Plutonium “Pit” Aging But Spends Billions on Nuclear Weapons Bomb Core

POLITICS. Biden signs $95bn aid bill to be sent ‘right away’ – for wars in Ukraine, Israel, and provocations in Taiwan.

Now is the Time for All Good Men and Women to Come to the Aid of Our Country USA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTP-W9VoFKA

Where are France’s nuclear reactors and what is planned for more?

Scottish National Party and UK Government in row over cost of nuclear dumping grounds. Popular UK holiday park to close, as Sizewell C nuclear project takes over

Japan city assembly OKs request for nuclear waste site survey.

Saudi Arabia is set to witness major developments in nuclear sector: IAEA chief Rafael Grossi.

Dutton’s plan to save Australia with nuclear comes undone when you look between the brushstrokes. US bases including Pine Gap saw Australia put on nuclear alert, but no-one told Prime Minister Gough Whitlam.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. Patrick Lawrence: The Impotence of Antony Blinken. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MHtQ9CF_-s&t=218s

PROTESTS. Protesters in Taiwan demand closure of nuclear power plants.

WAR and CONFLICT. Israeli Strikes in Rafah Kill 22, Including 18 Children. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OdABlkwi6M&t=67s
Russia: West military support for Ukraine could lead to confrontation between world’s nuclear powers.
North Korea’s Kim Jong Un Oversees Simulated ‘Nuclear Counterattack’.
Why Iran may accelerate its nuclear program, and Israel may be tempted to attack it.

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. U.S. Senate Passes $95 Billion Foreign Military Aid Bill. The US secretly sent long-range ATACMS to Ukraine — and Kyiv used them. Three Cheers for Our Red, White, and Blue War Profiteers. Lockheed Martin, Raytheon Applaud $95 Billion Supplemental Arms Package.
US nuclear weapons in Poland would be priority military target – Moscow.
Russia-Ukraine war: EU ministers fail to pledge Patriot systems to Ukraine at key meeting – as it happened.
Macron ready to ‘open debate’ on nuclear European defence.
Polish president: Poland ready to deploy allied nuclear weapons on its territory.
“Fiscally conservative” Congressman Sean Casten votes to squander $95 billion to further destroy Ukraine, enable genocide in Gaza, provoke military confrontation with China,

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The world is in world war as economic competition has been militarised between the empirialist debt bumbs, in the west and the rest of the world.The ukrainians started launching long range missiles into the hear of russia last week.

Comment by Arka | April 29, 2024 | Reply