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Nuclear news and more -this week

Some bits of good news:  How Indigenous Peoples are safeguarding Earth’s biodiversity   Federal Court recognises four-nation clan’s 95,000-square-kilometre native title claim in Western NSW, Australia.      French schools to have a long ‘digital pause’

TOP STORIES. 

A Looming Nuclear Catastrophe. Democratic Party platform a catastrophe for world peace.

Fears of ‘serious consequences’ if ‘extremely exposed’ Russian nuclear plant is attacked.

Atomic Tragedy? Plutonium Levels Near US Nuclear Site In Los Alamos Similar To Chernobyl – New Study.

That time when Canada cancelled its nuclear submarine order. 

Recent Events Prove Western Nations Are Highly Vulnerable To Cyber Calamity – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0oZA1B3ooI

Climate. Surging seas are coming for us all, warns UN chief.

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AUSTRALIA

.David Noonan confronts Australia’s politicians with critical unanswered questions on the AUKUS agreement – will they pretend not to hear this?      The AUKUS submarine deal has been exposed as a monumental folly – is it time to abandon ship?

Dutton’s nuclear vision is distorted by ignorance (or worse) Opposing a USA-led international nuclear agreement that is bizarrely unfair to Australia. More Australian nuclear news headlines at https://antinuclear.net/2024/08/27/australian-nuclear-news-from-26-august-to-1st-september/

NUCLEAR ITEMS

ARTS and CULTURE. Farewell, the American Century

ATROCITIES. Israel Launches Major West Bank Raid as Israeli Minister Vows Gaza-Like Attack.

CIVIL LIBERTIES. UK arrests TWO prominent anti-genocide journalists under ‘anti-terrorism’ laws, as West ramps up attacks on dissenters.

ECONOMICS. UK unveils GBP 5.5bn subsidy plan for 3.2 GW nuclear plant. Ukraine doubles down on Russian reactors in nuclear power push. Marketing. South Korea pushes to export nuclear reactors to Europe. Let’s forget NuScale’s small nuclear reactor shambles in America. Now they’re marketing these little boondoggles to Ghana.

ENERGY. Hokkaido more plugged in to renewable energy than rest of Japa

ENVIRONMENT. Popular US park as radioactive as Chernobyl, says expert: ‘I’ve never seen anything quite like it’ Oceans. Fukushima fishermen not in the clear yet

ETHICS and RELIGION. Zelensky signs law to ban Ukraine’s largest church.

EVENTS. September 1 -30 Free viewing of “Atomic Bamboozle“.Lakenheath Alliance for Peace will have an ongoing presence at American air force base..

HEALTH. Labour Government must give ‘absolute commitment’ to nuclear test veterans

HISTORY. Declassified files show Northern Ireland’s future reformist PM ‘against nuclear plant in Catholic area’

MEDIA. New York Times Uncritically Reported Israel’s Version of Golan Bombing. Book: Dirty Secrets of Nuclear Power in an Era of Climate Change.

OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Campaigners against government scheme boost for Sizewell C.

PERSONAL STORIES. I Want to Live On’ Documentary Brings Forward Voices of Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Survivors – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fapgfaBfmFQ.  People Harmed by Radiation Exposure Can Forget About Any Federal Compensation.

PLUTONIUM. ‘ Extreme’ levels of plutonium contamination found in Los Alamos.

POLITICS.The US presidential candidates are not confronting the nuclear threat that haunts the world. America’s Nuclear ‘Downwinders’ Deserve Justice. Russia says it will change nuclear doctrine because of Western role in Ukraine. UK government’s new scheme to subsidise Sizewell nuclear project with support up to £5.5 billion ! Nuclear power scheme given £5.5bn of funding. Rees-Mogg told Truss to plug nuclear submarine into the grid.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.IAEA chief on reviving Iran nuclear deal, preventing Russia-Ukraine nuclear disaster. North Korea condemns new US nuclear strategic plan report.Same cast, new script: What’s next in Iran’s nuclear saga?

SAFETY. Russia says UN watchdog must be ‘more objective’ after trip to nuclear plant near fighting . UN fears nuclear incident possible at Russia’s ‘vulnerable’ Kursk plant after drone strikes. Central Japan nuclear reactor fails to pass safety review. Sellafield Ltd told to improve after hazardous substance breaches. Acid discharge and risk assessment shortfall at Cheshire nuclear-site.

SECRETS and LIES. How the U.S. Enabled Netanyahu to Sabotage a Gaza Ceasefire. Waihopai is a Secret U.S. Spy Base in New Zealand Designed for War-fighting.

TECHNOLOGY. Last Energy nabs $40M to realize vision of super-small nuclear reactors. Plug and play nuclear reactors remain a shot in the dark

WASTES. ‘It stops with us’: After fighting more than a decade, advocates obtain maps of radioactive waste at West Lake Landfill. Tepco aims to dismantle Fukushima water tanks from 2025.

WAR and CONFLICT. Ukrainian Tipping Points. Tangible Panic Grows in UkraineAmid Donbass-front Collapse. Ukraine war briefing: Russia says it will change nuclear doctrine due to western escalation in Ukraine. The Battle of Kursk probably won’t result in nuclear weapons use against Ukraine: but Russian escalation vis-à-vis NATO can’t be ruled out. Russia Warns US Will Face ‘Much Harsher’ Consequences for Backing Kursk Invasion. NATO Ally Sounds Alarm on ‘Risks’ of Nuclear War With Russia.

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. Biden’s ‘new’ nuclear strategy and the super-fuse that sets it off the super-fuse that sets it off ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2024/09/01/2-a-bidens-new-nuclear-strategy-and-the-super-fuse-that-sets-it-off/ ‘Lessons of the past forgotten’ as nuclear proliferation continues.  International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW). Co-President Carlos Umaña Explores Making Nuclear Weapons Taboo. Iran urges elimination of atomic weapons, end to nuclear tests. Israel Says US Has Delivered 50,000 Tons of Military Aid Since Start of Gaza Slaughter. A Return to Form: Expediting US Arms to Israel.  US Rushes Weapons Shipments To Israel. ‘No,’ Kamala Harris Says to Withholding Arms From Israel. Ukrainian defense chief visits  Pentagon. Pentagon rejects Zelensky’s latest weapons plea.

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September 2, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina's notes

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1. There are over 120 thousand tons of unburied, hi level nuke waste, in the world today. Hi gamma and beta emmitters and plutonium. St90,Co60,Cs137 radioactive iodine. Long lasting radionuclides, with halflives from 6 to 37 to thousands of years. Leo szilard said that it would take less than 800 tons of isotope on the sheath of a nuke bomb, converted to cobalt 60 after detonation, to destroy the earth. The omega bomb. All dna and life on the earth destroyed within a few years of detonation.
   There are 400 rickety old reactors and a few hundred research reactors, around the world. Each with the fallout potential of hundreds of nuke bombs. If a nuclear war occurs, the nuke waste containers and fuel pools will catch fire . The reactors will blow up. The geniuses in the pentagon and state department never bring these things up. 20 shitty old reactors, are close to the korean dmz. One of the most likely places for a nuclear confrontation to occur. Even after the close calls at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
   Nuclear-power plant in Enerhodar, Ukraine
   npp.zp.ua/en
   The fire there.
   The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power the largest nuclear power plant in Europe and among the 10 largest in the world.
   Our genius president and his genius neoconservative advisors never bring these facts up in their scenarios for winable nuclear wars. They always lie and minimize. There are millions of tons of medium level and low level nuke waste minimally managed and stored, in the n hemisphere. There are 120 thousand tons of omega bomb material, stored by reactors and above ground in shoddy containers around the world. They are chomping at the bits to destroy everything in thir demon fantasies. How can educated people in any part of the world believe anything these assholes say?

   Comment by Ursu | September 3, 2024 | Reply

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