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Much non-corporate nuclear-related news this week

Some bits of good news   –   When Flotillas Fight for Life, Not Empire.  The Verdant Refuge of India’s India’s Sacred Groves.   Near Philadelphia’s New Green Spaces, a Dramatic Reduction in Crime.

TOP STORIES. Regulating the regulators: How the nuclear power industry steers the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Big Tech Is Rushing Into Nuclear Energy, and Bypassing Safety Oversight.

Ceasefire Announced-Destruction Continues- The Illusion of Peace in Lebanon.
A Case for War?- Iran’s Non-Existent Nuclear Weapons Program.
Nuclear costs of the Iran War.

40 years from Chernobyl disaster – What happened to the heroes – and villains – of Chernobyl. 

Climate. Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought. Sea-level rise is a health crisis and we must hold polluters accountable.

AUSTRALIA The Apocalypse Salesman: How Richard Marles Sold Australia’s Future to the Permanent War Economy.

More Australian news at https://antinuclear.net/2026/04/18/australian-nuclear-news-headlines-this-week/

NUCLEAR-RELATED ITEMS

ART and CULTURE. The Normalisation of Contradiction. When “exterminate the world” isn’t a headline. Trump’s Will Be Done.

ATROCITIES. Not a Ceasefire—A Reset: The Quiet Expansion of Palestinian Incarceration.

CLIMATE. New Nuclear Is Too Late and Too Costly for the Climate Crisis.

ECONOMICS. New metric shows renewables are 53% cheaper than nuclear power. Hormuz Dateline Bulgarian minister wants fixed price for Kozloduy 7 and 8 nuclear reactors.

ENERGY. How efficiency measures could almost halve industrial energy demand globally.

ETHICS and RELIGION Trump’s Extreme Use of Military Is Stirring a Crisis of Conscience Among Troops. Popes have spoken out on politics before. But with Trump and Pope Leo it’s different. Trump is trying to distract us from Pope Leo’s calls for peace- Don’t take the bait. Papal authority, now featuring Donald J. Trump. Nobody’s “Obsessed” With Israel — It’s Just A Uniquely Horrible Country. I Hope The US Loses And The Empire Collapses, And Other Notes.

EVENTS. 25 April – ‘No War on Iran’ – demonstration at Fairford base.  Petition to oppose the rapid increase of space-military industry threatening Jeju Island and the region. [Petition by April 19th (KST)] Stop the joint military-Hanwha Systems-Jeju Provincial Government Sea Launch!

LEGAL. The collapse of multilateral law and the confusion of the battlefields.

MEDIA.

• Chernobyl’s 40-year legacy: haunting photographs from the radiation zone.
• New York Time’s Investigation of How Trump’s War on Iran Started Leaves Out the Paper’s Own Silence.
• Israel Destroys a Synagogue; US Media Yawn.
• Israeli Journalist With Deep Ties to IDF Admits West Bank Violence ‘Looks Like… Ethnic Cleansing’ .
• US’s Erosion of the Right to Cartoon Is No Laughing Matter.

OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR Greenham Women’s Peace Camp: The forgotten protest against nuclear weapons that lasted 19 years.

CND opposes new contract to build nuclear reactors on Anglesey- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2026/04/17/1-b1-cnd-opposes-new-contract-to-build-nuclear-reactors-on-anglesey/

POLITICS.

• First new planned US nuclear reactors likely to get government loans, energy chief says.
• Congress A-OK with Trump murdering thousands in Iran and crashing the world economy.
• Swedish taxpayers to take on the burden of financing nuclear power.
• Trump/Newsom Attack Renewables and Push Nuclear.
• “‘This war is the result of a coup.’” 
• Israel is losing its grip on U.S. politics.
• Not clear there is public appetite for nuclear energy in Ireland despite fuel crisis, junior minister says.
• Proposed Scottish nuclear study unlikely to be published before election.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.

• Iran rejects Trump claim on deal to surrender nuclear material stockpiles.
• Trump says Iran agrees to hand over ‘nuclear dust’ -ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2026/04/18/2-b1-trump-says-iran-agrees-to-hand-over-nuclear-dust/
• Trump prefers collapsing world economy to admitting defeat in his criminal Iran war.
• It seems Washington needs to be reminded of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
• Amid the Iran chaos, war over Taiwan just became less likely.
• Netanyahu Doctrine: How one man’s war addiction is consuming Israel, Lebanon, and the World.
• US Aims at Heavy Staff & Budgetary Cuts for United Nations, Seeks to Launch Cost-Saving Artificial Intelligence at UN meetings.
• They Always Tell You Why The Empire Uses Violence, But Never Why Its Enemies Do.

SAFETY. Targeting Nuclear Power. There’s a Glaring Safety Problem With Nuclear Energy Startups. Chernobyl at risk of ‘catastrophic’ collapse as haunting new images of nuclear site emerge. Chernobyl could face ‘catastrophic’ collapse as repairs stall following Russian drone strike. Zaporizhzhia NPP loses external power for the second time in a week, IAEA investigates.

SECRETS and LIES. What secret report reveals about British nuclear weapons tests – veterans claimed they were harmed by the fallout.

SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. Nuclear-Powered Rockets — NASA Plans First Launch in 2028. Fresh off Artemis, America is now turning its attention to creating nuclear power in space

SPINBUSTER. . Goiânia Survivors Challenge Netflix: ‘A Crime Against the Truth’.

TECHNOLOGY. Reprocessing isn’t the solution.

WASTES. Finland Is About to Open the World’s First Permanent Nuclear Waste Site.

WAR and CONFLICT.

• TRUMP SAYS “ENOUGH”—BUT ISRAEL PUSHES ON IN LEBANON WAR LATEST.
• Mass Destruction in Southern Lebanon as Israeli Forces Use ‘Gaza Tactics,’ Level Villages.
• THIS IS NOT SELF-DEFENSE’: UN EXPERTS BLAST ISRAEL’S ASSAULT ON LEBANON AS WAR CRIME.
• Israel May Be Preparing to Permanently Reoccupy Southern Lebanon.
• Will Trump nuke Iran?
• Ceasefire Exemptions and Quarries of Death: Israel’s War on Lebanon.
• Normalizing zionist terrorism against Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Iran.
• THE WAR THEY STARTED—AND LOST: HOW THE U.S. AND ISRAEL TRIGGERED A CRISIS THEY CAN’T CONTROL
• A conflict of attrition: Iran’s bet on asymmetric warfare.
• The Art of the Deal Is War.

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. America’s pro-Israel J Street says Israel should pay out-of-pocket if it wants US weapons.

Horror as Russia ‘plans nuclear weapon in space’ that could cause global chaos.

April 19, 2026 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter