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This is the last of the TOO LONG nuclear-news emails – (next week -shorter)

Theme of the week – It’s all so complicated – time to simplify these newsletters. So, next week’s one will be shorter and clearer.Some bits of good news –  The world’s largest and longest-running ecological project. Africa is smashing all the solar records. Road deaths have fallen 21% worldwide since 2011, even as more than a billion vehicles have joined the roads

TOP STORIES. The Theocratic Trap – How Divine Claims Become Engines of Destruction.
Ukraine: America’s Enduring Proxy War on Russia.

Climate. A supercharged El Niño is threatening more deadly heatwaves — and Americans are ignoring the risks. ‘It’s only going to get worse’: wildfires forcing firefighters to make impossible choices.

Noel’s notes. Crunch time for the nuclear lobby’s biggest lie (Small Modular Nuclear Reactors)?

AUSTRALIA. 

“Intolerable pressure”- Inside the Israel lobby campaign to coerce regulators on antisemitism. 

Close that Facility: The 2026 Pine Gap Protests. 

Senior naval officer facing court martial over naval contracts – breaking news from WA. 

UN refutes Jillian Segal’s Gaza death toll claim before Royal Commission. 

NUCLEAR-RELATED ITEMS

ATROCITIES. ‘Gaza Is One Giant Graveyard’

ECONOMICS. Germany greenlights controversial joint French-Russian nuclear project. US and Japan clash over meltdown liability in $40bn nuclear power deal. Russia’s Financial Crisis Casts a Shadow Over Central Asia’s Nuclear Future. Data centers powered by next-gen nuclear? – Don’t fall for Big Tech’s PR hype. A Contract for Difference for nuclear lifetime extension for Sizewell B – a nice save for the nuclear industry?

EMPLOYMENT. New Swiss nuclear plants could put thousands of renewables jobs at risk. 

EVENTS. 30 July – WEBINAR (Free) – Is Nuclear Power the Solution to Climate Change? 4 August – WEBINAR – Hiroshima & Nagasaki: Nuclear Bombs Never Again

HEALTH. Hegseth Announces Testosterone Testing as Part of Push for “Lethal” Military.

HISTORY. The Forgotten Jewish Movement That Rejected Zionism.Anti-zionist Jew Exposes Zionism’s Best Kept Secret | Molly Crabapple https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VFBa0AdgEA

LEGAL. Iran accuses US of violating international law after strike on nuclear plant.

MEDIA. Book. The Russo-Ukrainian War: Follies of Empire.

PERSONAL STORIES. The Israeli crimes against Palestinians did not “start” in October 2023.

POLITICS.

• Labour mayor candidate vows to push new nuclear with Andy Burnham.
• Israel spent £50,000 lobbying Reform.
• Red, white and glowing blue: Trump’s push for new reactors reaches the finish line.
• New energy policy for Burnham?.
• Ceases to be a nuclear power’: The high-stakes deal the new UK PM inherits.
• Ukraine has a new butcher-in-chief – all the better to feed Ukrainians to the grinder.
• The Fall of Israel’s Longest-Serving Leader: Is This the End for Netanyahu? 

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.

German historian and academic, Tarik Cyril Amar: “It is the West that is using Ukraine as cannon fodder and has been for years”.

Richard Sakwa interview on The Russo-Ukrainian War: Follies of Empire.

Von der Leyen paints target signs on Europe with Ukraine drone pact.

Nuclear deal that would permit uranium enrichment by Saudi Arabia in limbo awaiting Trump admin sign-off. 

SAFETY. Alarm over bid to keep cracked reactors running by cutting nuclear safety margins . UK’s old nuclear reactors to be kept going as we wait for Small Modular Nuclear Reactors. Two ageing nuclear power stations will stay operational until 2030. UK’s nuclear plants face risks of AI-powered cyber-attacks and insider threats. Incidents. A Seat Cushion Triggered One Of History’s Strangest Nuclear Accidents And A Geopolitical Scandal That Lasted Decades

SECRETS and LIES. Fatal fallout. Witness- A visit to Donald Morrison, a chief witness in the case of Willie McRae.

SPINBUSTER. Data centers powered by next-gen nuclear?- Don’t fall for Big Tech’s PR hype

URANIUM. US greenlights Saudi nuclear enrichment without safeguards: Report

WASTES.
Uncertainty over West Cumbria nuclear waste plan continues.

WAR and CONFLICT. The wear and tear of conflict: Ukraine, Europe, and the twilight of a great deception. Top Israeli Minister: ‘Best For Us’ If US Fights Iran While Israel Sits Out New Round of War Furious Iran accuses US of striking Iranian nuclear facility in revenge attacks for deaths of two Americans. American forces struck a nuclear power plant under construction in southern Iran.

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. Germany To Join French Nuclear Exercise, Deepening ‘Counter-Russia’ Deterrence. AI for peace: In Rome, Nobel laureates call for disarming AI and nuclear weapon

July 25, 2026 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter