A long list of nuclear news this week

Some bits 0f good news Egypt becomes the seventh country in the Eastern Mediterranean Region to eliminate trachoma as a public health problem.

Colombia bans all new oil and mining projects in its Amazon.
TOP STORIES. Trump’s new radiation exposure limits could be ‘catastrophic’ for women and girls.

How Holtec International became an expanding (and controversial) nuclear power -(long, but worth it)

The Invention of “Ethical AI”.

UN Security Council Gives US ‘Mandate’ Over Palestine .
Israel’s unrelenting, underreported ethnic cleansing of West Bank Palestinians.

Climate. Pledges to triple renewables, reduce methane and double efficiency will deliver huge climate savings.

AUSTRALIA.

‘Inadequate’: Audit call on $368bn AUKUS cost estimate.
Australia Flags Indians Over $368 Billion Nuclear Submarine Espionage Fears: Did “Qatar Fiasco” Play A Part?
Coalition of the unlikely: How Australia and China could save the planet.
What Australia can learn from China to become the world’s ‘cleaner’ rare earth refiner.
ABC News advances its alliance with Murdoch’s Sky News.
Supporting genocide- Australian funds risk breaking international law.

TOPICS

ART and CULTURE. Quiet, Piggy: How Calling a Female Reporter Livestock Became Just Another Tuesday in the Death of American Democracy (Part 2)

ATROCITIES Israel Launches Major Attacks Across Gaza, Killing at Least 28 Palestinians, Including Many Children. At Least 13 Palestinians, ‘Mostly Children,’ Killed by Israel in Lebanon Massacre. ‘We lose many patients’: Inside Gaza’s last hospitals. IDF Kills Two 15-Year-Old Boys in the West Bank, Israeli Settlers Torch Mosque. Israel Moved Gaza’s Yellow Line And Then Shelled Palestinians For Being On The Wrong Side.

CIVIL LIBERTIES. ‘National Security Threat’? 95-Year-Old Human Rights Scholar Richard Falk Interrogated for Hours by Canada.

ECONOMICS.Nordic nations’ Ukraine burden ‘unsustainable’ – Sweden.
Nuclear Stocks Crash, With A Potential Payoff Still Years Away.
Google Boss Says Trillion-Dollar AI Investment Boom Has ‘Elements of Irrationality’.
Nuclear levy will increase UK energy bills from December.

OpenAI Oligarch Pre-Emptively Demands Government Bailout When AI Bubble Bursts.
US to Own Nuclear Reactors Stemming From Japan’s $550 Billion Pledge. Trump officials announce $1bn loan to restart Three Mile Island nuclear plant

EDUCATION. Lancaster University to create £2m nuclear power station control room simulator.

EMPLOYMENT. Geoffrey Hinton: They’re spending $420 billion on AI – It pays off only if they fire you. Health Care Workers Spoke Out for Their Peers in Gaza. Then Came Backlash.

ENERGY. Russian Attacks Cripple Ukraine’s Nuclear Power Output.

ENVIRONMENT. China has built first undersea data center — a breakthrough in ecocidal technology posing as “sustainable”.

ETHICS and RELIGION. Zionists Are Freaking Out About Losing Control Of The Narrative.

EVENTS. 21 – 23 November –Uranium Film Festival in Las Vegas!

LEGAL.The Knesset and the ‘Post–9/11 Method’.Austria appeals taxonomy ruling.A multi-million dollar dispute rages over Olkiluoto 3 – Only lawyers will win.State Finds No Exemption for Holtec on Nuclear Wastewater Release. Environmentalists FILE FEDERAL LAWSUIT AGAINST HOLTEC’S UNPRECEDENTED PALISADES ATOMIC REACTOR RESTART,

MEDIA. ‘Radioactive patriarchy’ documentary: Women examine the impact of Soviet nuclear testing.
For New York Times, Trump’s Gulf Corruption Is the New Normal.

OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Campaigners come together to challenge Britain’s disastrous nuclear expansion. Torness nuclear power station was opposed at every stage.
Rio Rancho residents sound alarm over hypersonic missile plant.

POLITICS. The World’s Largest Nuclear Plant Inches Toward Restart After Key Approval.

UK Government accused of ditching 24GW nuclear power target.
Ed Miliband, the Energy Secretary, is being disingenuous when he claims that nuclear energy is clean and home-grown.
Ynys Môn MP demands clear timelines and ‘transparent decisions from UK Government over new nuclear plans.
First Minister John Swinney absolutely rules out changing Scottish National Party’s no nuclear stance.
Wylfagasm! What does it tell us about Cymru?

US to “buy and own” new domestic reactors
.Energy Department loans $1B to help finance the restart of nuclear reactor on Three Mile Island.
Trump administration lends $1 billion to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor.

Kiev Coup Poker Update, 19 November 2025.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.UN Security Council Resolution On Gaza Is An ‘Atrocity’.
Russia, Ukraine and the difference between wanting peace, and needing peace. US, Russia drafting Gaza-inspired peace plan for Ukraine.
US and Russia ‘actively discussing’ settlement of Ukraine conflict – Moscow.

US Reaches Initial Deal With Saudi Arabia on Nuclear Sharing. Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Is Set to Visit Washington– Here’s What to Expect Out of His Meeting with Trump.

The Guardian view on a new nuclear age: great powers should not restock a house of dynamite.
Greenpeace claims French resumption of nuclear trade with Russia.
Big Loss for US Empire: Ecuador Votes To Reject Foreign Military Bases
China to reimpose ban on Japanese seafood imports amid row over Taiwan.
Iran says IAEA vote nullified inspections deal with UN watchdog,

PUBLIC OPINION. Will public perception derail Europe’s nuclear renaissance?

RADIATION. US Department of Energy Seeks to Eliminate Radiation Protections Requiring Controls “As Low As Reasonably Achievable”.

SAFETY. A nuclear meltdown at Zaporizhzhia would imperil the entire region- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/11/21/1-b1-a-nuclear-meltdown-at-zaporizhzhia-would-imperil-the-entire-region/.
IAEA warns of safety importance of substations.

TEPCO’s Kashiwazaki nuclear plant hit with another security flaw. Kashiwazaki Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant (KK) – even more dangerous than Fukushima

SECRETS and LIES.

The Censored History of Able Archer 83. Nuclear waste today; consumer products tomorrow?

Ukraine’s energy sector corruption crisis – what we know so far and who was involved. US senator accuses Trump of ‘silence’ on huge Ukraine corruption scandal.

The scandal Zelensky can’t escape: Inside Ukraine’s biggest corruption story. Zelensky remains a creature of the corruption plaguing Ukraine. Ukraine’s ‘EnergyGate’ scandal explained: Why it spells danger for Vladimir Zelensky.

Emails Reveal Epstein’s Ties to Mossad—But Corporate Media Looked Away.

The Palestine Laboratory: Exporting Occupation Technology (w/ Antony Loewenstein) | The Chris Hedges Report.

SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. ‘The war of tomorrow will begin in space‘: Macron.

TECHNOLOGY.Starmer’s nuclear revolution is about PowerPoints, not power- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/11/21/1-b1-starmers-nuclear-revolution-is-about-powerpoints-not-power/
The Sandoval County Rocket and Missile Complex Deal Was Done Before the Public Ever Had a Say.

URANIUM. Iran’s foreign minister says his nation is no longer enriching uranium.
France’s EDF again sends spent uranium to state-owned Russian firm for recycling.

WASTES. The Mind-Bending Challenge of Warning Future Humans about Nuclear Waste.

WAR and CONFLICT.Ukraine targeting Russian nuclear power plants amid frontline losses .US Launches a Series of Airstrikes in Somalia, Civilians Reported Killed.Eva Bartlett: “Israel was born of violence”.Why nuclear war is closer than ever: historian SERHII PLOKHY.

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES.Lucky Dip: Drone companies await spending bonanza as UK’s Defence Investment Plan (DIP) to be revealed.
A New Gold(en) Mine for Arms Contractors. Less for Health Care, More for the Pentagon.
North Korea says Seoul-US submarine deal will trigger ‘nuclear domino’ effect.
Japan edges towards hosting nuclear weapons.