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This week’s NOT the corporate nuclear-related news

Some bits of good news – Planting Billions of Trees Turned Barren Desert into a Carbon Sink That Lowers CO2.   

Town Enthusiastically Switches to Restorative Justice and Reoffending Almost Vanishes.  

Dramatic recovery of various fish species after California’s ban on trawling

TOP STORIES 

Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate. 

What if Nuclear Deterrence was an Obsolete Concept? 

Why can’t western leaders accept that they have failed in Ukraine? 

Murica: US throws pennies at massive UN debt.

Climate. The Apocalyptic President.  Donald Trump has revoked the official doctrine that carbon dioxide is a danger to human health. Brace for Trump’s brave new world of 1.7°C global warming. 

The challenges in projecting future global sea levels.  Excruciating tropical disease can now be transmitted in most of Europe, study finds.

AUSTRALIA. 

• British submarine arrives for ‘extraordinary’ AUKUS visit. 
• Submarine boasts, yet nuclear waste dumps submersed in secrecy. 
• Radiation Protection -worker and public health protection standards at risk. 
• China’s Retaliation: when will it happen 
•  Australia-based Bannerman Energy join China’s CNNC  for debt-free construction of its Namibian uranium project. 
• Australia’s culture of complicity.

NUCLEAR RELATED ITEMS

ECONOMICS. A $33 billion nuclear bailout is coming to your electric bill. Cost of Hinkley Point C nuclear plant jumps again to nearly £50bn. – EDF has further pushed back the start-up of the UK’s flagship HinkleyPoint C nuclear plant. British taxpayers bankroll French nuclear giant while Hinkley Point C quietly receives 500-tonne reactor heart. Investigation: France’s future nuclear reactors could cost three times more than expected. Scotiabank subsidiary fully divests from Israeli arms firm. Nuclear power: EDF assesses the cost of reactor modulation for the first time (but its calculation is incomplete).

ENERGY. Why can’t people grasp that there’s much more to renewables than wind?

ENVIRONMENT. Major leak at Highland nuclear site triggers hunt for mystery bunkers. New Mexico Environment Department Holds LANL Accountable for Hexavalent Chromium Plume.

ETHICS and RELIGION. Pope Leo rejects Trump invitation to join Gaza ‘Board of Peace’

HEALTH. DNA Mutations Discovered in The Children of Chernobyl Workers. Harrowing six final words of nuclear worker as his skin fell off during 83 days of agony.

LEGAL RAF Lakenheath protesters to face no further action. Further charges on health and safety offences at a nuclear construction site.

MEDIA. Fukushima review – a devastating account of disaster and denial in 2011 nuclear catastrophe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8HuMGIsiTo Ch4 doc shows Starmer’s ban on Palestine Action was done to protect the arms industry. DoJ Released Much More on Epstein’s Israel Ties—But Media Still Aren’t Much Interested.

POLITICS. Democrats Aren’t Resisting Trump’s Iran War Because They Secretly Support It. A Dangerous Equation: Trump’s Iran Plans and the Democrats Who Expect to Benefit.

The Unelected Overlord: How Kushner Turned the White House into Israel’s Backroom Deal Den. Trump Team Didn’t Just Collude with Israel, Kushner was Acting as Foreign Agent for Tel Aviv.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.

• Iran will not bow down to US pressure in nuclear talks, Pezeshkian says. Iran war described as‘biggest opportunity’ at US oil lobby’s DC summit. No US War on Iran: An Open Letter to the UN Security Council. Very traumatic for whom Mr. Trump?
• The Veto May be the Weapon of Elimination in the Election of Next UN Chief.
• Rubio Declared a Return to Brutal Western Colonialism – and Europe applauded. Rubio at Munich: No More Guilt for Colonialism.
• More Shockingly Honest Confessions From The Empire Managers.
• No Netanyahu pushing to turn US into ‘slave state for Israel’s expansionist dreams’: Analyst
• Trump officials plan to build 5,000-person military base in Gaza, files show .
• 66 years of US sanctions and embargo degrading Cuba have become depraved under Trump.

SAFETY. Ministry of Defence’s nuclear clean-up project brings new risks – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2026/02/22/3-b1-ministry-of-defences-nuclear-clean-up-project-brings-new-risks/ Massive military convoy carrying ‘nuclear weapons’ passes through Glasgow..

SECRETS and LIES. The global elite in the shadow of Jeffrey Epstein. The Israeli Government Installed and Maintained Security System at Epstein Apartment. Why Epstein’s Links to the CIA Are So Important. Epstein, Yermak and Zelensky. Uranium Neo-colonialism in Mongolia: Crime but No Punishment. Beijing moves to contain Mossad’s expanding reach in Iran.

SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. Space-based missiles, killer robots key to U.S. effort to gain orbital dominance.

SPINBUSTER. Lies Of Omission As Fresh American War Crimes Loom.

TECHNOLOGY. Algorithms and AI have turned Gaza into a laboratory of death.Small modular nuclear reactors for developing countries: Expectations and evidence Open Access. Deep Fission Wins Fresh Investor Backing for Nuclear Reactor Burial

WASTES. “Dumping Radioactive Wastewater into the Hudson River” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxf4e1j5Zr4

WAR and CONFLICT.

Israel and American Hawks are pushing US to Iran War with Catastrophic Consequences. Munich Security Conference Evangelizes European War. The Ticking Time Bomb Looming Over Gaza, And Other Notes.

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES.

• Proposed Saudi-U.S. deal could allow uranium enrichment, arms control experts warn.
• Trump buildup for war with Iran mimics George W. Bush’s buildup for 2003 Iraq war.
• German Chancellor urging France to beef up ‘Europe’s nuclear deterrent”.
• Air Force urged to build 200 B-21 bombers.
• What a naval ‘hellscape’ in the Pacific could actually entail: New Navy drone warship and undersea robot weapons.

February 23, 2026 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter