Not the Corporate Nuclear News – week to 5 April

Some bits of good news –

UNESCO’s new Global Education Monitoring Report reveals a dramatic expansion in global education since 2000. Lead in archived hair documents a decline in lead exposure to humans since the establishment of the US Environmental Protection Agency with regulation of leaded petrol and other major sources. Australia’s tiny marsupial ampurta is making a big comeback

TOP STORIES. Chernobyl at 40: The World’s Worst Nuclear Power Accident and Where It Stands Now.
A ‘small’ nuclear war would still be global catastrophe.

Climate. Data centers are creating ‘heat islands’ on land around them – warming them by up to 16 degrees, researchers warn. Funding gap threatens next round of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) climate science reports. Climate change will push venomous snakes towards highly populated coastlines, study finds. US scientists are escaping to Norway because of Trump’s anti-climate agenda, minister says.

AUSTRALIA For Australia the Price is Always Right.
The war they sold us, the price we pay. US war on Iran exposes Australia’s frail defence, AUKUS even more. UniSuper members ‘divest from death’ on Palestine Land Day . Zomi Frankcom killing– Press Club takes on Israel’s ambassador. The Platform of Shame: How Australia Normalised a Genocidal Regime. 15 April – Zoom –Nuclear Power is Not the Solution
21 April Webinar: No Nuclear Weapons in Australia.

ATROCITIES.
‘The rope is for Arabs only’: Israel’s new death penalty law for Palestinians recycles a colonial playbook. ‘This Arrogant Enemy’: Israel’s Colonial Reversion to the Noose.

ECONOMICS.

ENERGY. Will the New Brunswick Power Review finally shake up New Brunswick Power? DONALD TRUMP: THE GREAT ILLUMINATOR. How Iran war energy crisis strengthens case for renewables.

ETHICS and RELIGION. Trump’s Divine War: How Christian Nationalists Are Running U.S. Policy in Iran and at Home.The Empire Is Losing Its Ability To Hide Its Ugly Nature.On Good Friday, Pope Leo speaks with presidents of Israel and Ukraine, calling for an end to war.Kucinich Statement on President Trump’s Address on Iran.

EVENTS 7 April – WEBINAR – Australia and the Doomsday Clock – Preventing nuclear war through NoFirstUse and other policies.14 April – Zoom –Nuclear Power is Not the Solution21 April – No Nuclear Weapons in Australia – Civil Society Declaration.

HISTORY. Trump’s “New” Mideast: False Promises of Peace Through War.

INDIGENOUS ISSUES. Progress, push back and Indigenous rights.

LEGAL. NuScale’s ENTRA1 “Veterans” Had Zero Nuclear Projects — Investors Lost 70%.Legal challenge against nuclear site plan rejected.

MEDIA They attack, we defend: how the media toe the line on Iran. Washington Post Promotes Nuclear Agenda Tied to Bezos’ Investments.Inspiring the Authentic Journalist: The Pentagon’s Renewed attack on Press Credentials.No To Nuclear- Why Nuclear Power Destroys Lives, Derails Climate Progress and Provokes War.

OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Back to Pentagon on Good Friday.Protestors target RAF Lakenheath amid evidence of US nuclear weapons and role in illegal war on Iran.

PERSONAL STORIES. US negotiator in 2015 Iran nuclear deal says Donald Trump ‘delusional’ on nuclear and regime change.

POLITICS. New US war team needed to end Iran war on Iran’s sensible terms. Scotland won’t pursue ‘unproven’ SMRs and ‘experimental’ fusion as focus remains renewables.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.

Trump and Greenland: Key war fighting base for Arctic control
Ukraine actively involved in US-Israeli aggression against Iran: Envoy to UN.
Dimona’s shadow: How Israel’s nuclear monopoly warps Middle East security.
Why is Iran being singled out while others escape scrutiny? : Erase nuclear apartheid.
How the Iran War undermines the nuclear nonproliferation regime.
Trump’s Non-Address: The Strait of Trump and the Vandalism of Global Order.

PUBLIC OPINION. War front updates: America opposes war on Iran

RADIATION. The Impact Of Radiation On Health | March 25, 2026.

SECRETS and LIES. Massacre of UK aid workers: two years of obfuscation from Britain.UK submarine captain steps down after link to Chinese spy case.

SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. The US has declared ‘space superiority’ over Iran – What does that mean?.

SPINBUSTER. The “Nuclear Energy Paradox”– Investigating nuclear imaginaries in energy projections.No Three Mile Island in Suffolk!Sanctity Lost: Even Neocon Pantheon Declares US a ‘Rogue Superpower’.

TECHNOLOGY. Bypass the Strait of Hormuz with nuclear explosives?- The US studied that in Panama and Colombia in the 1960sFusion power unlikely to become competitive.Atlanta robot security dogs now giving commands to Americans.

URANIUM. Does the Trump administration understand how ‘enriched’ uranium is made into weapons?

WASTES. France plans inquiry as cost of nuclear waste project hits €33bn.Scenario Analysis for Partitioning and Transmutation(P&T) in a Phase-out Scenario.Decommissioning. Manchester Professor appointed expert reviewer for Government nuclear decommissioning review

WAR and CONFLICT.