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Nuclear and related news -week to 14 January

Some bits of good news.   World’s largest free meal program, aimed at children and pregnant women.   Thai tiger numbers swell as prey populations stabilize in western forests. ‘Extinct’ trees found in Tanzania spark hope for ecosystem recovery.

TOP STORIES. Genocide: The New Normal.
Drone Warfare Has Exploded the Myth of Nuclear Reactor Safety.
 Radioactive nightmare: A community’s fight for survival amid soaring cancer rates.

While Los Angeles burns, AI fans the flames.

From the archives. 40 Years Ago: US President Jimmy Carter Pushed For Renewable Energy Funding After Three Mile Island Nuclear Disaster — 

Climate. State of the Cryosphere Report 2024.

 LA wildfire damages set to cost record $135bn. 

Climate crisis ‘wreaking havoc’ on Earth’s water cycle, report finds, Energy efficiency, the forgotten tool for dealing with climate change.

Noel’s notes. The California wildfires and the unmentioned threat of nuclear radiation. The polar playground for a suicidal species?

AUSTRALIA. 

• Sovereignty not worth a nickel? 
• AUKUS: Flawed and Sinking. 
• Nuclear radiation took her father’s eyesight. Now Karina’s fighting Dutton’s nuclear reactors- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us2PJovak2Y
• There’s a gaping hole in Dutton’s nuclear plan: He says it’s Albanese’s problem to solve.  
• Los Angeles fire a wake up call for Australia. 
• The continual cover up – Jenny Hocking on the strange disappearance of Gough Whitlam’s ASIO file. Critical Archival Encounters and the Evolving Historiography of the Dismissal of the Whitlam Government- series at https://antinuclear.net/  – also other news items.

NUCLEAR ITEMS

CLIMATE. World’s climate fight needs fundamental reform, UN expert says: ‘Some states are not acting in good faith’. Energy efficiency, the forgotten tool for dealing with climate change.

ECONOMICS. Lepreau nuclear plant’s costs will continue to balloon: critic -ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/01/09/1-b1-lepreau-nuclear-plants-costs-will-continue-to-balloon-critic/Together Against Sizewell C letter to National Audit Office SZC Value for Money concerns 06.01.25.

EMPLOYMENT. No more buckets and spades – would nuke dump end West Cumbrian tourism?

ENERGY. Germany deploys 16.2 GW of solar in 2024 .Trump’s war on wind power: Plans to stop windmill construction nationwide.Schneider Electric warns of future where datacenters eat the grid.Is the Haverigg wind project once more under a nuclear threat?

ENVIRONMENT. CANDU reactors release WASTE HEAT as well as RADIOACTIVITY.EDF’s UK nuclear plan – salt marsh consultation delay reaction.

ETHICS and RELIGION. Are Blinken and Biden’s Gaza genocide denials any different than Nazi WWII genocide denials?

EVENTS. WEBINAR: 17 January : Exposed – New book sheds light on radiation science

HEALTH. Ohio Community Faces Cancer Crisis from Radioactive Contamination

HISTORY. When Carter met Kim – and stopped a nuclear war.

INDIGENOUS ISSUES. First Nations chiefs shouldn’t be duped by ‘nuclear-is-green’ deception.

LEGAL.

• Ireland formally joins ICJ genocide case against Israel.
• An overlooked Supreme Court case could decide the future of nuclear power.  Lawsuit challenges NRC on SMR regulation.
• Japanese yakuza leader pleads guilty to trafficking nuclear materials from Myanmar. Japanese crime boss admits to conspiring to sell nuclear material to Iran.
• Judge Orders Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to Come Clean on Deleted Assange Docs.

MEDIA. Raffi Berg: BBC Middle East Editor Exposed as CIA, Mossad Collaborator.

OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR .   Campaigners accuse UK government of ‘lack of transparency’ over SizewellC value. – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/01/11/1-b1-campaigners-accuse-government-of-lack-of-transparency-over-sizewellc-value/

PERSONAL STORIES. ‘He was prescient’: Jimmy Carter, the environment and the road not taken.

POLITICS. Genocidal President, Genocidal Politics. A new year – but old policies.EDF delays salt marsh consultation for Hinkley Point C.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.

• Report: Israel Refusing To Commit to a Permanent Gaza Ceasefire as Part of Hostage Deal.
• Outgoing CIA director says ‘no sign’ Iran developing nuclear weapons. Iran Condemns US Threats to Nuclear Facilities, Calls for UN Accountability.
• What a second Trump administration may mean for the Saudi nuclear program.
• Why Greenland Is Of Growing Strategic Significance. China Is Not Our Enemy – Brief version at https://nuclear-news.net/2025/01/12/2-b1-why-greenland-is-of-growing-strategic-significance/

SAFETY. Faslane Peace Camp warns of growing nuclear risks amid rising tensions. Incidents. ‘Alarming’ environmental breaches at nuclear sites spark calls for tougher action. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) staff reported hearing loud blasts near Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

SECRETS and LIES. How Fukushima’s radioactive fallout in Tokyo was concealed from the public. The Atlas Network has eugenicist roots.

TECHNOLOGY. Could AI soon make dozens of billion-dollar nuclear stealth attack submarines more expensive and obsolete?Deep Fission to supply Endeavour data centers with 2GW of nuclear energy from “mile-deep” SMR. Nuclear energy groups race to develop ‘microreactors’. UK will explore nuclear power for new AI data centre plan

URANIUM. US to study proliferation risk of HALEU nuclear fuel, after warning by scientists.

WASTES. U.S. nuclear spent fuel liability jumps to $44.5 billion.S. Korea’s nuclear agency launches investigation into abnormal discharge of radioactive waste.

WAR and CONFLICT. Lancet Study: Gaza Health Ministry Undercounted Death Toll By 41%.How the UK and Nato are preparing for spectre of nuclear war in space.

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. Iran has absolutely no intention to build nuclear weapons, president says.There is no such thing as good nuclear proliferation.Trident nuclear submarines leave UK reliant on the US, in lockstep with the US.How to dismantle the deadly arms trade.

January 13, 2025 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina's notes