This week’s Nuclear news – not from the military-industrial-political-media complex.

Some bits of good news –

Christiana Figueres: The global south is now leading the clean-energy revolution.

Mozambique has reached a milestone in women’s health, vaccinating nearly 3 million girls aged 12–18 against HPV.

Migratory Birds and Rice Farmers Are Helping Each Other Soar

TOP STORIES. The Gaza Laboratory: How War is Being Marketed and How the World is Fig

hting Back.

The rise of the US ‘digital-military-industrial complex’

Trump’s 20 point plan to end the war in Gaza is the usual Israeli ultimatum: surrender or be murdered.

Trump and the Deep State: The Tomahawk deadlock and the illusion of presidential autonomy.

Resuming U.S. Nuclear Tests Is Reckless and Dangerous, One Expert Says.

The Risky Movement to Make America Nuclear Again– (very long -but useful extracts at https://nuclear-news.net/2025/11/04/1-a-the-risky-movement-to-make-america-nuclear-again/

Who is paying for Britain’s nuclear revival?

The SMR boom will soon go bust.

Cheaper, greener power is on the way – ALSO AT https://antinuclear.net/2025/11/03/cheaper-greener-power-is-on-the-way/ Australia is getting free electricity – will other countries follow?

Climate. THE CORRUPTION OF COP30: DODGY CLIMATE DOSSIERS How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then kept drilling.

Six pieces of data that give hope for the future of the climate.

Noel’s note for today – When will the public in each country wake up? Governments don’t care – they’re happy to waste taxpayers money on things nuclear, and especially weaponry.

AUSTRALIA.

Subs base enigma– NSW Government doesn’t know what to hide or why.
Navi Pillay: Don’t be complicit in genocide Australia, warns former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Arms industry infiltrates National Press Club.
Australian uranium company loses Danish arbitration case.Nationals choose coal, nuclear and climate denial, as politics of delay threatens to kill another industry.
Coalition to look at coal subsidies, stick with nuclear. Free solar, nuclear cost blowouts, and “deadly negligence” on climate: A heady mix for the Coalition.
World’s biggest isolated grid hits new peak of 89 per cent renewables, led by rooftop solar.

NUCLEAR iTEMS

ATROCITIES. Israel Is Still Starving Gaza, And Other Notes.

CLIMATE. Can France’s nuclear legacy weather climate change?-ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/11/09/1-a-can-frances-nuclear-legacy-weather-climate-change/
Siting new nuclear at Oldbury deemed ‘problematic’ due to high level of flood risk -ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/11/08/1-b1-siting-new-nuclear-at-oldbury-deemed-problematic-due-to-high-level-of-flood-risk/

ECONOMICS.

Trump’s Westinghouse Nuclear Fiasco: Wasting Money on a Corrupt Game of Hot Potato.
The $17bn nuclear start-up without any revenue -and TRANSCRIPT– ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/11/08/1-b-the-17bn-nuclear-start-up-without-any-revenue/
Japan’s seismic history and the Westinghouse deal – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/11/04/1-b1-japans-seismic-history-and-the-westinghouse-deal/
Starmer, Macron, Merz…3 unwise leaders degrading their economies while destroying Ukraine.
The Biggest Single Contributor to the UN Budget is also the Biggest Single Defaulter.
“It is unacceptable that the EDF tariff reform is being adopted quietly, to the detriment of the users”- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/11/05/1-b1-it-is-unacceptable-that-the-edf-tariff-reform-is-being-adopted-quietly-to-the-detriment-of-the-users/
EDF Braces for More Delays at UK Hinkley Point Nuclear Project. Bpifrance helps UK nuclear reactor to financial close – ASO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/11/08/1-b1-bpifrance-helps-uk-nuclear-reactor-to-financial-close/
Canadian government happily splashing tax-payers’ money on wasteful things nuclear.

EMPLOYMENT. Fears raised that specialist Vulcan MoD work could shift to Sellafield

ENVIRONMENT. Nuclear Tests and Their Legacy of Harms in Asia-Pacific.The Silicon Thirst: When Data Drinks the World Dry.

EVENTS. 19th and 20th November – Online Event- Holding the Memories: Communities Leading the Fight for Nuclear Archival Justice

HEALTH. The men who stared at mushroom clouds .

MEDIA. Atomic testing must not resume.YouTube deletes hundreds of videos documenting Israeli war crimes.

OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . No to Nuclear, Yes to Renewables for Wales. Going Nuclear Free: The Early History of the Nuclear Free Local Authorities.

PERSONAL STORIES. Israel Still Controls Over Half of Gaza — Including the Rubble of My Home.

PLUTONIUM. Los Alamos National Laboratory Prioritizes Plutonium “Pit” Bomb Core Production Over Safety.Some 890 tons of Tepco nuclear fuel kept at Aomori reprocessing plant.

POLITICS

The US Empire Keeps Getting Creepier.
The Nastiest Warmongers Are Trump’s Biggest Fans Now.
How could the US restart nuclear weapons testing?- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/11/05/1-b-how-could-the-us-restart-nuclear-weapons-testing/ Donald Trump’s alarming muddle about nuclear-weapons testing.
Hegseth to Congress: “I have no idea…”
Pentagon Tells Congress It Doesn’t Know Who It’s Killing in Latin American Boat Strikes.
Governments’ Financial Support for New Nuclear Developments in Canada.
British Nuclear Jets Programme Costs ‘Unrealistic’ – CND.
UK Government rapped as billions unaccounted for in nuclear spending– ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/11/07/1-b1-uk-government-rapped-as-billions-unaccounted-for-in-nuclear-spending/ Scottish
National Party reject UK Government’s ‘nonsense’ national security threat smear- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/11/08/1-b1-scottish-national-party-reject-uk-governments-nonsense-national-security-threat-smear/

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.

The Deal That Never Was: Washington Proposed, Moscow Agreed – and Trump Blocked It.
Putin considers nuclear tests after Trump threat. Russia urges Trump administration to clarify ‘contradictory’ signals on nuclear testing . Trump doubles down on nuclear tests as Russia issues warning. Trump, Putin, and Nuclear Arms Diplomacy. Trump’s Threat to Resume Nuclear Testing.
China denies nuclear testing, calls on US to maintain moratorium.
Francesca Albanese names over 60 states complicit in Gaza genocide.
Trump’s bet on US nuclear buildout ropes in Japan– ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/11/05/1-b1-trumps-bet-on-us-nuclear-buildout-ropes-in-japan/
Brussels attempts to sink Europe in debt to help Zelensky.

SAFETY. IAEA chief condemns Trump’s nuclear test plan. Trump’s Big Nuclear Reactor Push Raises Safety Concerns.

Remediation work through £4.6bn Sellafield framework. Officials launch investigation after hazardous incident at shut-down nuclear plant: ‘Deeply concerning’.

SECRETS and LIES. The AI Drones Used In Gaza Now Surveilling American Cities.

TECHNOLOGY. Artificial Intelligence Is Making Everything Dumber

URANIUM. Don’t fuel Riyadh’s nuclear weapons cravings

WASTES
Nuclear waste removal under way at silo.
Decommissioning.EDF’s plan to decommission Hinkley Point B approved despite regulator’s concerns. Hinkley Point B to begin 95-year decommissioning plan.
UK’s nuclear waste problem lacks a coherent plan.
Radioactive waste from Canada would be buried in Utah under EnergySolutions proposal.
The iodine-129 paradox in nuclear waste management strategies.

WAR and CONFLICT.

Hegseth Declines To Say Whether the US Is Planning To Bomb Venezuela. US amassing 16,000 troops off Venezuelan coast – Washington Post.

The moment of truth: The West confronts Russian military advances.

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES.