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The non-corporate nuclear news – week to 8th February

Some bits of good news 
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The malaria vaccines are working. Toronto’s Don River was declared “biologically dead” decades ago — now fish are returning after a major wetland restoration.        Australia returns an extinct frog to the wild after four decades. 

TOP STORIES The Military’s AI Strategy Threatens Everything We Love.

Russia says will act responsibly despite New START nuclear treaty expiry.  

The only remaining US-Russia nuclear treaty expires this week- Could a new arms race soon accelerate? 

We Asked Two AIs What’s Driving the Doomsday Clock: The Answer Was Human Power. 

I spent decades in energy -Here are the problems with UK nuclear plans – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2026/02/05/4-a-i-spent-decades-in-energy-here-are-the-problems-with-uk-nuclear-plans/ 

Small Modular Reactors: Game changer or more of the same? 

The long half-life of France’s nuclear tests in Polynesia.

Climate. Europe feels the impact of weeks of wet weather and freezing cold.     What Trump’s plans for the Arctic mean for the global climate crisis.

Noel’s notes. Beware these dangerous writers in the world of journalism.

AUSTRALIA. 

• Why I Cannot Stand By: Protesting Israeli President Herzog’s Visit to Australia. Cancel Herzog tour; defy police intimidation. ISIS vs IDF- Selective justice and the fall of Australian law.                   Precarious Invitations: Israel’s President Isaac Herzog’s Visit to Australia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwRRuLQx5X8&t=36s            Australia: HRF, Jewish Council and ANIC Demand Arrest or Entry Ban of Israeli President.
• US congressional report explores option of not delivering any Aukus nuclear submarines to Australia.    Possibility of US ever selling Australia nuclear submarines is increasingly remote, Aukus critics say.        Let’s stop pretending AUKUS makes us safer – ALSO AT https://antinuclear.net/2026/02/05/3-lets-stop-pretending-aukus-makes-us-safer/ 
• Southern suburbs residents call for City of Cockburn to be nuclear-free as AUKUS partnership rolls on. 
• The Rules-Based Order: Where America Gets Away with Murder, and Everyone Else Gets the Bombs. 
• As Trump Threatens Weekend Strike on Iran, Albanese Pretends Pine Gap Isn’t Complicit. 
• The Opportunity Cost of Permanent War: How Australia is Bankrupting its future.

NUCLEAR RELATED ITEMS

ATROCITIES. Why Trump’s Denunciations of the Iranian Killings Ring Fatally Hollow.

ECONOMICS. Britain courts private cash to fund ‘golden age’ of nuclear-powered AI. Will soaring electricity rates kill Ontario’s nuclear expansion? Ontario’s Nuclear Rate Shock Reveals a Deeper Affordability Problem. How Flexibility, Not Nuclear, Can Secure Ontario’s Electricity Future.

EDUCATION. University of Cumbria, Nuclear Waste, AI / Bitcoin and a Strange Tale of Tapping Epstein for Money..

EMPLOYMENT. Mediterranean Dockworkers Launch Historic International Strike

ENVIRONMENT. Controversial plans for 139 homes on old Marchon site approved.Sellafield is Awash with Acid Chemicals – Rivers, Sea, Soil, Nothing is Off Limits for “Disposal” of This Toxic Brew Mixed with Dangerous Radioactive Isotopes at the Arse End of Atomic “Clean Energy”Harbour activity to increase at Sizewell C amid more work.

ETHICS and RELIGION. The Plutocrats Who Rule Our World Aren’t Even Enjoying Themselves.Hedonism’s Dance: How the Governing Classes Fell for Jeffrey Epstein.HerStory: Feminism is the Route to Peace.

EVENTS.  9th February Protesting Israeli President Herzog

s Visit to Australia.

Stop the AUKUS nuclear submarines! Online public meeting Feb 11

12 February – Webinar The Big Push: New Nuclear Projects in Canada.

MEDIA. The Media is Whitewashing Trump’s Board of Peace. “Journalism Deserves Better”: Ex-Washington Post Staffers Slam Billionaire Bezos for Gutting Paper.

OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . One year on, the Green party continues to voice concerns about the Last Energy Nuclear Power plant in the Llynfi Valley. From the ashes, arises a Phoenix: Scottish Nuclear Free Local Authorities resolve to chart a new path.

PERSONAL STORIES. Radiation – and a cancer ward, letter in this week’s Westmorland Gazette.

POLITICS. Lawmakers spark backlash with controversial fee imposed on residents: ‘Colossal financial risk. Labour backbenchers revolt over Starmer’s nuclear plans -ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2026/02/05/4-b1-labour-backbenchers-revolt-over-starmers-nuclear-plans/SNP rules out any new nuclear power plants in Scotland. ‘Deeply ideological’: the rationale behind Iran’s insistence on uranium enrichment. Malaysian Officials take action as concerns arise about nuclear power plants: ‘Preparing for that possibility’. Trump to Congress: “I don’t need your stinkin’ approval to fund Israeli genocide in Gaza”

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. The U.S. occupation of Gaza has begun. Europe in Panic: Trump’s Power Play Shakes the World Order. In nuclear race with Russia, Trump goes back to a Cold War future.  Sorrowful day for peace largely ignored thruout America.  US and Russia negotiating New START deal – Axios.  With Trump silent, last US-Russia nuclear pact set to end.  Without START, everything could end. Sir Keir Starmer backs a USA strike on Iran. The US Keeps Openly Admitting It Deliberately Caused The Iran Protests .Iran says US nuclear talks off to ‘good start’ but draws line at missile, proxy issues. Trump says he believes Iran wants to make deal as he extols size of US ‘armada’. Is it time to replace NATO with EATO?

RADIATION.Finland detects small amount of radioactivity, sees no health impact

SAFETY. Trump slashing nuclear reactor safety and security rules. ‘Significant’ fire risks at nuclear plant site.

SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. NASA wants a nuclear reactor on the Moon – What would happen during a meltdown? Jeff Bezos and the audacious bid to put nuclear reactors on the Moon – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2026/02/04/jeff-bezos-and-the-audacious-bid-to-put-nuclear-reactors-on-the-moon/

SPINBUSTER. No evidence to support US claim China conducted nuclear blast test: Monitor. Looking to Blame Anyone But Israel for Youth’s Anti-Israel Turn.                                                       Dissecting The Belief That The US Should Forcibly Remove Tyrannical Governments . A Nuclear Renaissance for Scotland? There’s a lot of hype around small modular reactors.

TECHNOLOGY.U.S. Tech Park in Israel May Have a Nuclear Power Plant .Iran’s mysterious Pickaxe Mountain a ‘candidate’ for new nuclear activities. Germany: Ministry of the Environment: Mini‑reactors [SMNRs] not an option .

WASTES. Northwatch Comments on the NWMO’s Initial Project Description of a Proposed Deep Geological Repository for High-Level Nuclear Waste.  Comments on the Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada’s Used Nuclear Fuel Project December 2025 APM-REP-05000-0211  Growing stockpiles of radioactive waste beside the Ottawa River upstream of Parliament Hill causing widespread concern. Decommissioning. Impact Assessment of the Planned Dismantling of the Core of the Gentilly-1 reactor. Decommissioning of Gentilly 1.

WAR and CONFLICT. It is 85 seconds to midnight.   Israel’s War on Iran – The Overkill No One Calls War

WEAPONS AND WEAPONS SALES. The new era of Israeli expansionism and the war economy that fuels it .  Iran resumes activity at sites, satellite images show.Israel’s War on Iran:  The Overkill No One Calls War. Trump’s $1.5 Trillion “Dream Military”.

February 9, 2026 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter