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The non-corporate nuclear news – week to 10 May

Some bits of good news – 

India is skipping China’s coal boom, and heading directly for green energy. 

Scottish seabeds rebound after trawling bans.Teenage pregnancy rates have fallen across the world.‘

TOP STORIES.

Combatants must address root causes to end Ukraine, Iran wars. 

Has the US accepted Iran’s demand to settle Hormuz first, nuclear later?

Sachs on U.S. Power in Freefall: “The Most Dangerous Country in the World”

Oil, Empire, and the Price of War: How Energy Became the Ultimate Weapon– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh-E3q6tGEw

Nuclear Scaling Requires Discipline
– Small Modular Reactors Deliver Fragmentation.

Climate. Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere just hit a ‘depressing’ new record.

Environment. The Plague of Plastic: The other Petroleum Curse

Peace  – Mother’s Day Pivots to Peace

AUSTRALIA. 

• Why Palantir Australia Sparks Growing Privacy Fears. 
• Women Deliver Conference – Glimmers of hope amid the doom and gloom? – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnVgG63apzg 
• The IDF Kidnapped and Assaulted an Australian Citizen in International Waters | Michael West media. 
• Toxic fantasy nuked; one year on from the Federal election.
•  Antisemitism. The Royal Conflation Commission is in session. 
• Israel: The most dangerous nation on Earth.

NUCLEAR-RELATED ITEMS

ATROCITIES. FIFA-Backed “Board of Peace” Plan for Gaza Stadium Ignores Needs of Palestinians. Israel is making Palestinians disappear in more ways than one. Israel’s war on water–depriving Palestinians in Gaza of water for at least nearly two decades, if not longer. Israeli violence against Palestinians echoes Holocaust – ex-Mossad chief.

CULTURE and ARTS. Nuclear fears resurface among younger generations amid global tensions.

ECONOMICS. When will the new nuclear operators be required to put money aside for decommissioning? The billion-dollar boondoggle: how Vogtle became the US’s monument to nuclear folly. Trump calls US seizure of Iranian ships ‘profitable’ amid Hormuz tensions. The AI Mythos: If We Can Destroy the World, Imagine What We Can Do for Your Hedge Fund.

ENERGY. Am I the only one who doubts the need for more electricity? Scots are right to back renewables over nuclear energy– ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2026/05/08/1-b1-scots-are-right-to-back-renewables-over-nuclear-energy/ Unfounded Health Concerns Are Powering a Solar Backlash.

ENVIRONMENT. The ongoing Fukushima nuclear disaster 15 years on: a photoessay. ‘Fish disco’ not enough to protect nature at nuclear plant, says green quango – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2026/05/04/5-b1-fish-disco-not-enough-to-protect-nature-at-nuclear-plant-says-green-quango/

ETHICS and RELIGION. Peter Beinart on What It Means to Be Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza. Pope Leo rejects claim he supports nuclear weapons after Trump tirade. Trump attacks Pope Leo again ahead of Marco Rubio’s Vatican visit. Joint interfaith statement calls for world free of nuclear weapons. New outrage after Israel demolishes convent in Yaroun, southern Lebanon

EVENTS. Korean A-Bomb Victims U.S. Speaking Tour & NPT Engagement Highlights

HEALTH. The story of the cooks of Chernobyl, 40 years later.

HISTORY. The man who blew up a nuclear power station and disappeared.

LEGAL. The Second Global Sumud Flotilla: Israeli Piracy and Abduction on the High Seas. Israeli Attack on Flotilla Violated the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. Iranian Group Submits Evidence of US-Israeli War Crimes to International Criminal Court.

MEDIA. Press groups demand records on potentially corrupt Paramount acquisitions.    Christiane Amanpour Lays Out Her Fear for CNN With Blistering Attack on David Ellison’s CBS ‘Realignment’. CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour expresses ‘concern’ over the future of the network, citing ‘idealogical realignment at CBS. The mainstream media is finally beginning to echo Americans’ outrage at Israeli slaughter. Dangers to the Fourth Estate: The 2026 World Press Freedom Index. American Press Freedom on the Brink.

PERSONAL STORIES. ‘We will never forget giving our Chernobyl children three weeks of fresh air and fun’ Eerie Reminder of Holocaust Past . Donald Trump Claims He’s “The Most Powerful Person To Ever Live”

POLITICS.

• Yukon and Ontario and SMRs – Memorandum of Misunderstanding?
• America’s Suicide Pact.   
• INTERVIEW: There are two crazy individuals here, Trump and Netanyahu.
• PATRICK LAWRENCE: Trump’s Trap, Trump’s Sanity.
• Genocide Is Still The Political Test That Matters.
• Labour and SNP row over submarines at Rosyth Dockyard
• Starmer plan to relax nuclear regulation opposed by Holyrood. 

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.

• “Existential”: Israel Quadruples Foreign-Influence Budget To Massive $730M.
• A Nobel Effort: Parliamentary call for common security and nuclear disarmament.
• “Anti-diplomacy” rules in Europe.
• Epic Nonsense: Trump Shelves Project Freedom. Trump’s New Iran Negotiator Is Israel Lobbyist Who Denounced Negotiations With Iran.
• Rapid escalation.
• Iranian proposal rejected by Trump would open strait before nuclear talks, Iran official says.
• Common Security as a credible alternative to nuclear deterrence. 

RADIATION. Infant mortality rates in San Luis Obispo County in proximity to the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant.

SAFETY. Nuclear Sector Must Step Up Cybersecurity. Chernobyl at 40: Belarus took the brunt. Belgian state is not prioritising safety in its nuclear policy.

SECRETS and LIES. Trump claims his mass murder in the Caribbean saved a million American lives…real number 0. Accountability is optional. Covert NATO initiative turns film into anti-Russia battleground.

SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. With launches slated to grow a hundredfold, Space Force seeks more sites, money, people, and AI.

SPINBUSTER.  Sweden generates 99% of electricity from clean sources –So why is windpower under attack?  The UK Descends Into Confected Antisemitism Hysteria . Dissecting An “Antisemitism” Psyop . The West’s bubble of illusion about Israel – and about itself – is finally being burst. “The myths of ‘Russian aggression.’ Nuclear in New Mexico conference in Bernalillo continued the myth that nuclear power is clean and safe.

TECHNOLOGY. The World’s Biggest Fusion Reactor Just Hit a Milestone.

WASTES.

• A small northern Ontario town refused radioactive waste-It’s gone to Sarnia instead.
• Will the Trump administration’s ‘nuclear campus’ plan break the US nuclear waste gridlock?
• Britain is creating a mountain of nuclear waste it doesn’t know what to do with– ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2026/05/07/1-a-britain-is-creating-a-mountain-of-nuclear-waste-it-doesnt-know-what-to-do-with/
• “We are waiting for Nuclear Waste Services to Come Up with Recommendations on Siting….”

WAR and CONFLICT. ‘The odds are not in our favour’: who sets the Doomsday Clock – and what can they tell us about the future of humanity? DAYS 53-65: World on the Brink in the Hands of a Madman. Ukraine drone attacks hit nuclear power plant, Baltic port. Russia’s Threat Of A Massive Retaliatory Strike On Kiev Likely Isn’t A Bluff. Not so quiet death – the US orders to kill the Iranian Navy’s Dena and its crew. NewsReal: Energy Wars on the High Seas – Trump Admits “US Navy Like Pirates!”.

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. Israel targets southern Lebanon with internationally banned phosphorus shells. War Dividends: Potential U.S. Arms Sales to the Middle East Surge in Q1 2026. Pentagon strikes deals with top AI companies . Central Asia celebrates 20 years as a nuclear-weapon-free zone

May 12, 2026 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter