Nuclear news as May ends – the problems keep getting worse
Some bits of good news – INDIGENOUS INSIGHTS ON HEALING LAND AND SKY. Cuban Farmers Fight Land Degradation with Sustainable Management.
It’s a worrying thought that everyone might just get ”Ukraine fatigue” and let this cruel war grind on. In the meantime, the global nuclear industry is suffering all sorts of upsets, while Elon Musk and the rest of the space war enthusiasts are carrying on, as if there were no problems at all. Hard to single out the most significant nuclear failure, but I think that it would have to be France, where the financial and safety problems just keep getting worse.
INTERNATIONAL.
What to do about humanity entering “a spiral of self-destruction” – a UN Summit now on in Indonesia. The U.N. “Sustainable Development Goals”- just ”greenwashing” – claim experts. Why nuclear power can’t solve climate crisis – in fact makes it worse- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7rG7-P7E5M&t=306s
When Henry Kissinger gives advice on ending the Ukraine conflict, the West should listen. Ukraine, Taiwan: Biden trip designed to recruit S. Korea, Japan into global anti-Russia/China bloc. They’re Just Outright Telling Us That Peace In Ukraine Is Not An Option.
Book Review: ”Atoms and Ashes’‘ – A Timely History of Nuclear Catastrophes.
Asianization of NATO: China, Russia react to Biden visit War for Taiwan, nuclear war for Japan: Biden pushes two-front campaign against China, Russia. Like the rest of Europe’s few remaining non-members, Ireland being prepped for NATO . Expanding NATO – it’s a $quillion bonanza for the U.S. weapons industries!! Why environmentalists are pushing back against nuclear energy .
Nuclear is already well past its sell-by date. After the meltdown.
Billionaires from USA and Denmark have inordinate influence on public opinion about molten salt nuclear reactors’. Caitlin Johnson, rogue journalist, on corporate control of the media.
“Don’t work for climate wreckers:” UN chief warns young people off fossil fuels.
Curbing other climate pollutants, not just CO2, gives Earth a chance.
Experts call on governments to start including animal welfare in sustainable development governance.
UKRAINE. For the first time in history, nuclear sites have been caught up in the middle of warfare. Ukrainian negotiator rules out deal with Russia.
USA.
- Col. Richard Black — U.S. Leading World to Nuclear War. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcp0TYx_eUI Biden’s nuclear comments send shock waves through Northeast Asia . Twenty-Two House Republicans Demand Accountability on Biden’s $40b War Spending. Are Americans Prepared To Fight A Nuclear War Over Taiwan?
- South Carolina Woefully Underprepared for Nuclear Disaster .
- Palisades atomic reactor’s shutdown for good, leaving high risk radioactive wastes. Michigan’s dead old nuke is Diablo’s early warning. California makes misguided plea for feds to keep state’s last nuclear power plant alive.
- USA Energy Department nuclear waste backlog goes as far back as WWII.
- Where the toxic nuclear industry and global heating collide – the disastrous wildfires in America.
- U.S – UK quarrel over purchases of nuclear submarine equipment.
- ”Commercial” nuclear power in space? – it’s all about weapons and war.
- Elon Musk’s satellites for the war in Ukraine.
CANADA. Canada can achieve 100% zero-emission electricity by 2035 – with renewable energy, storage. energy efficiency , and interprovincial transmission
UK.
- Pressure Mounts on British Home Secretary Patel Over Assange Decision.
- A fossil fuel front group – The Global Warming Policy Foundation.
- Pretense in UK that Wylfa and other new nuclear stations are affordable – investors are staying away in droves. Chinese involvement is entrenched in Britain’s nuclear power plans. Boris Johnson promised ”1 nuclear reactor a year for 8 years” – one by 2040 if he’s lucky!
- Nuclear safety warning threatens to derail Boris Johnson’s energy revolution. Security issues at UK’s civil nuclear facilities have reached highest level in 14 years.
- Another university infiltrated by the nuclear industry – University of Derby and Rolls Royce.
JAPAN. Japan ratchets up rhetoric against Russia, China re air patrols, Ukraine . Japan’s new ‘green economy’ bond may fund nuclear projects.
Fukushima. A 5.5 Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Area Near the Fukushima Disaster Site. Fukushima reactor sitting on shaky base raises quake concerns.
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, work to remove contaminated pipes suspended again due to detection of high radiation dose at level of “death by exposure for several hours. Debris in sediment, bottom of Fukushima Unit 1 Neutron radiation detected at high levels. Hiroshima man’s anime sheds light on Fukushima nuclear project.
Cancer Patients Seek Damages from Fukushima Nuclear Plant. Plaintiff diagnosed with thyroid cancer after the Fukushima nuclear accident: “I have suffered without telling anyone. Lawsuit by evacuees from nuclear power plant accident: Supreme Court to rule on June 17 for the first time on the government’s responsibility.
Japan’s plan to release toxic water into sea irresponsible.
MARSHALL ISLANDS. Nuclear tragedy in the Marshall Islands.
SOUTH KOREA. South Korea to keep import ban on Japan seafood due to Fukushima concern.
FRANCE. A warning from France, about nuclear delusions of grandeurl France’s Nuclear Industry Slides Into Crisis. Global heating is affecting France’s nuclear reactors, as water temperatures rise in the rivers. EDF Nuclear Failures Undermine Europe’s Push to Exit Russian Gas.
RUSSIA. Putin Ready For “Serious Negotiations” With Zelensky, But Says Western Arms ‘Destabilizing’ Situation/ Energy sanctions on Russia – Russia’s nuclear supply chain should be sanctioned, too.
EUROPE. Nuclear dependence. Europe remains economically dependent on Russia as long as it has nuclear energy. Where will Europe store its radioactive waste?
CROATIA. Mounting opposition from Bosnia, to Croatia’s nuclear waste dump plan.
AFRICA. Climate Summit failed to support African communities on the front lines of the climate crisis.
ISRAEL. No Iran nuclear deal ‘worse’ than even a bad one: Israel sources.
IRELAND. Ireland’s Environment Minister Eamon Ryan rules out nuclear power as option in transition from fossil fuel dependence
PHILIPPINES. Philippines’ Marcos in nuclear plant revival talks with S.Korea.
INDIA. France is offering 6 new nuclear reactors to India, even though India’s nukes are not within the IAEA safety regulatory framework. Russia’s Outsized Role in India’s Nuclear Power Program.
FINLAND. Fennovoima withdraws from its new nuclear reactor application.
PACIFIC ISLANDS. Vulnerable island ecology threatened as developed countries dump waste, conduct nuclear test in Pacific.
AUSTRALIA. Julian Assange’s family says Australia’s election result brings renewed hope for WikiLeaks founder’s release. Labor urged to act to prevent Julian Assange extradition. Australia’s new Prime Minister backs the UN Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty.
Where the toxic nuclear industry and global heating collide – the disastrous wildfires in America.
Yes, the video above goes back to 2015. Ancient history? If only!
We just don’t get to learn from the mainstream mdia, about this radioactive danger,
Terry Southard brought this information to our notice:
New Mexico is just on fire. 400 thousand acres burned. So much nuclear waste and fallout there from bomb building and testing I would not be surprised if everyone has cancer in 10 years. Nuke bombs exploded under rivers in nm project gas buggy. Uranium waste catastrophes. Nuclear waste dumps in in many places. Largest plutonium core operation in the world at Los Alamos, by Santa fe. Wipp
These explosions were caused by parts of the decommisioned, highly radioactive pieces of the San onofre reactor, biried in Nevada. They later dug them up, after the explosions and, moved them to utah.
Steppenwolf just stick yur head into the sand pretend that all is grand and everything will be ok
This will start happening at white mesa nuke waste operation, by blanding, utah. There will wildfires at dark canyon, white mesa, and bears ears. There was a truck fire of nuke waste at energy fuels other site by saltlake city. The white mesa, energy fuel operation is trucking in nuke waste, from all over the world.
This shows the wildfires still going on in New mexico
The hypocrisy of Europe pretending that nuclear power is the ”solution” for not depending on Russian gas.
With breath-taking blindness or stupidity (or both) European ”experts” are saying that Europe can become ”emergy independent” and no longer rely on Russia’s gas and oil, – by turning to nuclear power.
What a load of rubbish! They must know full well that Russia dominates the global nuclear industry.
By turning to nuclear power, European countries will become even more dependent – on Russia and Kazakhstan for uranium, on Russia for nuclear technology and expertise.
That is blatant hypocrisy. But it’s not the only bit of hypocrisy.
The other bit is that nuclear power:
(a) in its full fuel cycle – from uranium mining through to toxic waste disposal, emits lots of carbon and increases global heating.
(b) even if it worked against global heating, nuclear power takes so very long to set up, that it would come into operation much too late to be any use.
The week in nuclear news
A bit of good news. Australia – the leper of world climate politics, – is a leper no more. Beyond all expectations, we turfed out the corrupt and anti-environment Morrison Liberal Coalition government. The driving forces in this election were the Greens, and the very climate conscious ”teal” independents. It seems that intelligent Liberals who care about the environment defected to the ”teals”, while intelligent Labor people who care strongly about the environment defected to the Greens. Either way – Australia at long last will have a government that might work for the cause of a clean planet, and for addressing global heating, and climate justice.
Pandemic– WHO chief: The COVID pandemic is ‘most certainly not over’
Climate – New IPCC Report: Addressing Climate Change Is Now About Damage Control
Extraditing Julian Assange would be a gift to secretive, oppressive regimes.
War in Ukraine is getting complicated, and America isn’t ready
Ukraine War Has No End in Sight. Ukraine Contact Group: war used to expand global NATO.
NATO doubles members since 1999, completes sweep of Nordic nations . IT IS FOOLISH FOR FINLAND AND SWEDEN TO JOIN NATO. Up to 100 U.S. nuclear weapons surround Russia’s border. Disinformation’ Label Serves to Marginalize Crucial Ukraine Facts.
Switzerland: NATO swallowing Europe’s few remaining former neutrals .
Nuclear Bomb Blast Map Shows What Would Happen if One Detonated Near You.
New book – does nuclear power have a future?. Tritium isn’t harmless.
The Arctic Council (AC) and NATO aims conflict with no climate change mitigation.
COP26: No countries have delivered on promise to improve climate plans. 1.2 billion people threatened by escalating heat due to climate change. Climate change: The global climate crisis is also a health crisis
UKRAINE. Chernobyl nuclear fears as forest near Exclusion Zone in FLAMES – emergency triggered Ukraine controlled by US and UK – Russia. Injured troops to be evacuated from Azovstal – Moscow. Nuclear lobby happily predicts a bright and beautiful future for new nuclear reactors in Ukraine.
EUROPE. Borrell: EU defense chiefs to approve another half billion Euros to arm Ukraine — Anti-bellum. Russia’s grip on Europe’s nuclear power industry – this is being ignored. EU lawmakers move to block green investment label for gas and nuclear.
Unusually high temperatures to hit western Europe this week.Nuclear Fusion Is Already Facing a Fuel Crisis.
EU hits fast forward on renewables, including “massive deployment” of solar .
GERMANY. Germany to reject EU green investment label for nuclear power. Germany will vote against EU plans to label nuclear power as a green investment,.
FRANCE. France’s Nuclear Safety authority struggles with the problems related to corrosion in 12 reactors. France’s nuclear corrosion problem will need a ”large scale” plan, and ”several years” to fix. 3 unplanned shutdowns of French nuclear reactors due to corrosion concerns, in the Framatome-designed piping. EDF shares fall after new profit warning due to nuclear outages. Nuclear: seven questions about the industrial disaster that threatens EDF. France’s woes with nuclear power plants mean more energy uncertainty for Europe.
SWEDEN. Sweden’s Green Party demands nuclear weapons ban.
INDIA. Extreme heat hitting India.
PAKISTAN. Climate change makes record-breaking heatwaves in northwest India and Pakistan 100 times more likely.
RUSSIA. Five reasons that Russia’s nuclear exports will continue, despite sanctions and the Ukraine invasion. But for how long?
USA.
- $40 Billion More for the Ukraine War. invading Russia .
- Nuclear agency plans five new plutonium buildings at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Seismic Concerns at Los Angeles Nuclear Laboratory and Expanded Plutonium Pit Production.
- U.S. extends application deadline for nuclear power rescue program. Environmentalists oppose possibility of extending the life of Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant. Entergy shuts down Palisades nuclear station ahead of time. Say No to Nuclear Power.
- Back to square one for $28B nuclear management contract.
- The U.S. energy secretary says it is critical to find a solution for storing the nation’s spent nuclear fuel. US Government Secret Files:
- Human Experiments With Plutonium Side Effects.
- Don’t hold your breath waiting for NuScam‘s small nuclear reactors to be profitable.
- Americans Divided on Nuclear Energy.
- Global heating brings megadrought and water shortages to over half of the USA.
CANADA. Opposition mounts against 25-year licence extension request from New Brunswick nuclear plant with no long-term waste disposal plan.
JAPAN. Magnitude 6.0 quake shakes Japan’s east and northeast. Japan OKs plan to release Fukushima nuclear plant wastewater. Nuclear expert reaffirms harm of dumping nuclear-contaminated water into ocean, calls on Japan to stop pressuring opposition voices. Japan’s nuclear water disposal plan irresponsible.
SOUTH KOREA. New South Korean President plans to reverse the nuclear phaseout policy. S. Korea denies report of alleged approval of Japan’s Fukushima water release plan. Korea to keep close tabs on Japan’s Fukushima water discharge plan.
UK.
- Greens oppose Nato membership for Scotland and ‘evil’ nuclear weapons.
- Sellafield Update 2022. Strong community protest against planned Sizewell C nuclear plant for Suffolk. Beaches near Sellafield contaminated with radioactive particles.
- UK Ministers taking the public for fools, as they tout grandiose and delusional nuclear power schemes. Hinkley Point C – costs soar, delays again. UK govt’s big bet on nuclear is backfiring. Costs of Hinkley Point C nuclear station predicted to balloon out. £3 billion more, 1 year longer: EDF Energy announces latest price hike and further delay at Hinkley Point C.
- Organisation seeks assurance British nuclear will not rely on Russian uranium.
- Cost of shutting down UK’s old nuclear reactors is doubling and then some.
- UK Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee sets out the grim facts on costs of decommissioning nuclear reactors.
- UK Public Accounts Committee warns on need to double-check on safety of aging nuclear reactors.
- Webinar 25 May. Nuclear Free Local Authorities join with local governments to support UN Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
- Leaked emails expose UK Home Secretary Priti Patel’s connection to MI6-style ‘research and influence operations AND to extraditing Julian Assange. UK Home Secretary PRITI PATEL WAS PART OF CIA-LINKED LOBBY GROUP WITH HUSBAND OF ASSANGE JUDGE.
SOUTH AFRICA. Peter Becker, sacked from South Africa’s National Nuclear Regulator Board, won’t go down without a fight. From Russia with very expensive love – Karyn Maughan on South Africa’s bombed nuclear deal .
NEW ZEALAND. “We must wean ourselves off fossil fuels:” New Zealand launches “landmark” climate plan .
TURKEY. Turkish nuclear plant threatened by Russian sanctions.
MYANMAR. Invading Russia U.S., allies may be planning Ukraine proxy war model for Myanmar — Anti-bellum
AUSTRALIA. Will Anthony Albanese and Labor have the guts to free Julian Assange? Australians have voted for bolder climate action and integrity in politics.
TODAY. The nuclear industry’s FANTASTIC optimism in Ukraine
Doesn’t it warm the cockles of your heart, in this time of war, global heating, pandemic, to find an industry that’s full of optimism! And in Ukraine of all places!
Yes, it’s the ?wonderful NUCLEAR INDUSTRY!
And here was I, reading that Ukraine’s existing nuclear reactors are injeopardy, and the IAEA is worried, and that Chernobyl area is still radioactive, and that the concrete dome above the shattered reactor is costing $millions, and will need to be replaced at intervals over the next millennia.
It does sound absurd – but here’s what the ever-joyful World Nuclear News says:
‘construction work on two new Westinghouse AP1000 units at the Khmelnitsky nuclear power plant “will begin as soon as the war is over”. (The Americans must be glad that it will be an American company – but wait!… the Americans want the war to go on indefinitely)
“we are looking at new sites’ – the Chyhyryn site in the Cherkasy region…… there are good conditions, the population is positive….. they would also create a garden city out of Orbita….”
The week that has been , in nuclear news
Some bits of good news – Removal of over 200 dams in Europe has restored free flowing streams and migratory fish. Norway turns its back on gas and oil to become a renewable superpower.
Curiouser and curiouser. In Australia, and presumably in other ”developed” countries, the focus on squabbling political personalities, and on sporting celebrities, pretty much dominates the news, except for the continued coverage of Ukraine, seen through an American filter. Meanwhile, strangely lost in the background is the pandemic story, with new case numbers rocketing world-wide. Then there’s global heating – noted effects in California and Northern Australia – but what about India, Pakistan, Kenya, Bangladesh?
It is strange, and worrying, that the pandemic, climate change, and the heightened nuclear dangers have somehow slipped below the radar of public consciousness – but those threats are still there, even if it’s not nice to talk about them.
The Danger of Ignoring Julian Assange https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6bVl47kdNk
Ending the War of Attrition in Ukraine. Forgetting the apocalypse: why our nuclear fears faded – and why that’s dangerous.
Strategic partnership: U.S. pushes ASEAN to join crusade against Russia, China, Myanmar.
The Insanity Of Expanding Nuclear Energy. Poisoned legacy: why the future of power can’t be nuclear.
John Kerry warns a long Ukraine war would threaten climate efforts
Underwater drones could be the end of nuclear submarines. Underwater drones herald sea change in Pacific warfare.
UKRAINE. The horrible dangers of pushing a US proxy war in Ukraine – Atomic energy chief: Ukraine’s nuclear safety situation ‘far from being resolved‘. UN: There is ‘credible’ information Ukrainian forces are torturing Russian POWs .
EUROPE. GT: NATO’s northward expansion risks turning Europe into powder keg — Anti-bellum
NATO activating Black Sea battle groups — Anti-bellum
USA,
- Tulsi Gabbard Says Biden Is Risking Nuclear War With Russia Over Ukraine. Pentagon-Funded Think Tank Simulates War With China On NBC. The Export and Proliferation of Nuclear Technology . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4nqUg3TOo0 $6 Billion to Keep Uncompetitive Nuclear Plants Alive.
- Anti- Russian hysteria. Alaska: U.S. revamps army for Arctic war with Russia, China. U.S. leads NATO war games in the Balkans .
- US military wants nuclear rocket ideas for missions near the moon. .
- Devious nuclear zealots at it again in Ohio – new Bill to lead to subsidising ”next-generation nuclear reactors’‘.
- COST OVERRUNS AT GEORGIA NUCLEAR REACTORS OFFER CAUTIONARY TALE Westinghouse Electric’s parent company wants to put the nuclear company on the market. Talen Energy subsidiary files for bankruptcy, company still plans nuclear data center, Company says.
- Company Agrees to Further Tests of Nuke Plant’s Wastewater.
- US House passes extension of Radiation Exposure Compensation Act.
- Meet the nuclear booster who could unseat an energy appropriator.
- Timely release of Netflix documentary on Three Mile Island nuclear accident.
UK.
- Drones seized at UK nuclear bases after a ‘swarm’ and reports of ‘red lights’.
- The future of nuclear waste: what’s the plan and can it be safe?
- Kwasi Kwarteng: Nuclear push may increase energy bills, minister admits. Regulated Asset Base system will transfer nuclear’s financial risks to the UK public, rather than the nuclear companies. Uncertain funding for Britain’s plans for new nuclear reactors. Boris Johnson’s UK ”nuclear renaissance” – now desperate for funding, pleads to USA. Cost of living: Ministers consider delaying nuclear power decommissioning to help ease crisis.
- Energy saving and renewables to create many more jobs than nuclear could.
- ‘Criminalising our right to protest’: UK green groups’ anger over public order bill
RUSSIA. Putin could use nuclear weapon if he felt war being lost – US intelligence chief.
FRANCE. French nuclear output down 20.2% in April.
ISRAEL. Yes, Israel Has Submarines Armed With Nuclear Weapons (We Think).
AUSTRALIA. Radioactive: Inside the top-secret AUKUS nuclear submarines deal. AUKUS nuclear submarine fallout: double-dealing and deception came at a diplomatic cost.nnnAustralian readers condemn the Morrison government’s AUKUS deal
Nuclear news this week
Some bits of good news. New plan to accelerate clean energy access for millions globallyBrush-tailed bettongs doing well after reintroduction to SA mainland.
A busy week – here are the headlines
BUT- let’s not forget the appalling toll that climate change heat is bringing to Pakistan and India
Reducing Tensions, Building Trust, De-escalating. Is Russia increasingly likely to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine? Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand may attend NATO summit. Expansion into Asia-Pacific: NATO military bloc is poison, not antidote. Ukraine reveals split in ASEAN . Nuclear War Threat Drives Greater Divide Between U.S., China.
Propaganda During Times of War.
Russian Uranium NOT Sanctioned – Why?
Climate change could introduce humans to thousands of new viruses
Pope Francis reiterates complete opposition to the possession and use of nuclear weapons. Pope says NATO may have led to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
A new propaganda film to jolly up the pro nuclear enthusiasts. Nuclear power is a HUGE water guzzler – so why are we guzzling the lie that nuclear is good for climate?
Diseconomics and other factors mean that small nuclear reactors are duds ( part of larger article)
They suck your electricity while you sleep. What you need to know about vampire appliances
Climate sceptic thinktank received funding from fossil fuel interests
UKRAINE. Ukraine seeks Russia’s total defeat – top officials. UN nuclear watchdog says situation at Russian-occupied Ukrainian nuclear plant is ‘unsustainable’. Ukraine’s nuclear power plants caught in the Crossfire of War With Russia. Ask me about … the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster and its lingering effects. Chernobyl radiation is not stable after Russian invasion. UK PM scuttled Kiev-Moscow peace talks – Ukrainian media.
JAPAN. Asahi Shimbun – Japan’s nuclear industry needs to be more aware, more careful about terrorism risks. Private equity firms eyeing Toshiba buyout face nuclear dilemma. [Book review] Documenting the tragic aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster,
EUROPE. Energy saving actions by EU citizens could save enough oil to fill 120
super tankers and enough natural gas to heat 20 million homes. Czech state looking for place to store nuclear waste as EU deadline shortens.
FRANCE. The poisoned environmental legacy of France’s ”Nuclear Park”.
USA.
- U.S. Intelligence played a part in the sinking of Russia’s Flagship vessel. Antiwar Groups Protest Defense Industry Profiteering in Ukraine. Pentagon deploys airborne, special operations troops for exercises “from Arctic to Balkans”.
- No ”military justification” for the nuclear bombing of Nagasaki. A negotiated ending is better than ”fight to the death”.
- US nuclear power: Status, prospects, and climate implications.
- Senate Approves Radiation Exposure Compensation Act Extension. Meltdown:
- Three Mile Island – powerful new Netflix documentary series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAOIH8HRdDo Meltdown at Three Mile Island- USA’s closest nuclear close shave.
- NASA Is Sending Artificial Female Bodies to the Moon to Study Radiation Risks.
- US now preparing for a world with and without Iran nuclear deal.
- Ohio Democratic Party sues Governor over cover-up of records of the nuclear bailout scandal. $61 Million in refunds for customers in South Carolina’s V.C. Summer Nuclear Station debacle.
- California Governor ”open” to keeping Diablo Canyon Nuclear Station going, but that might not be feasible .
- Vitrification of Hanford’s nuclear waste is plagued with problems, would emit toxic vapours.
- In 2021 USA’s renewable power generation exceeded it nuclear generation.
- USA’s nuclear lobby continues to infiltrate education.
FINLAND. Russia’s Rosatom unit seeks compensation, as Finland tears up nuclear power plant contract.Finnish consortium abandons Fennovoima nuclear power project.
UK. What is REALLY driving Britain’s seemingly illogical push for small nuclear reactors and nuclear megaprojects? UK government’s reckless spending on nuclear submarines is really getting out of control. In the UK ”a disarmament week of actions against nuclear threats- ‘Faslane Action for Bomb Ban ‘ starting June 6
Boris Johnson’s Bold Nuclear Bet Has Echoes of Thatcher Failure. UK Greens the party on the rise – a ‘tectonic shift’ among voters. UK Nuclear Waste Services to airgun blast the Irish Sea – the public not consulted.
CANADA. Why shoreline nuclear power plants pose problem for Great Lakes. Green Party speaks out persuasively against small nuclear reactors.
SOUTH AFRICA. Five years after the illegal nuclear deal was nuked, we are still struggling with a broken energy system.
NORTH KOREA. North Korea fires ballistic missile amid growing nuclear threat.
GUAM. War and some unusual developments regarding nuclear-related topics – Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands.
AUSTRALIA.
Dissecting Vice Admiral Jonathon Mead’s Nuclear submarine zealotry. This black smoke rolling through the mulga’: almost 70 years on, it’s time to remember the atomic tests at Emu Field .
TODAY. Even more dangerous GROUPTHINK – swallowing the idea that a nuclear war could be won
Of course, it must be disappointing to the developers and then the buyers of magnificent new toys, to know that those toys cannot actually be really played with. I mean, they did have a couple of little real games in 1945, and that was fun.
Since then, they’ ve had some sort of second-rate games – testing the toys on indigenous lands, and in the oceans, I mean, tough luck that this destroyed environments, brought cancer and death and dislocation to indigenous communities. And heck, even some white communities were damaged! Also, just building the toys caused thousands of workers to be made ill, and many to die.
But we knew that it was all in a good cause – didn’t we?
And now, many voices, especially some powerful and oh-so-knowledgeable voices, are calling for getting serious with these toys – time to nuke the Russians to bring peace and democracy to them? And, time for the Russians to nuke us in the interests of getting in first?
But the trouble is, some thoughtful people think that it might not work out so well. Apparently, even a very clever computer worked it out that no-one could win in a nuclear war. Indeed, the computer thought that the only way to win – is not to play.
To write seriously – it would be an awful pity if we let those oh-so-knowledgeable voices pass their thinking on to us all, or to enough people – so that using nuclear weapons whether bombs or ”tactical” is accepted as an OK thing to do.
Global mindless groupthink as UK and others swallow the illogical case for nuclear projects, whose sole real purpose is to sustain nuclear submarines, nuclear weapons.
After years’ long research, Phil Johnstone and Andy Stirling have produced a report https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24724718.2021.2012351 – it’s a seminal study of how tax-payers’ money goes secretly from ”beneficial” megaprojects to the nuclear weapons industry. In the UK, this means specifically- to nuclear submarines.
The money to the nuclear submarines cannot be measured, cannot be counted – it is so hidden in the world of energy projects, civil nuclear energy. But this explains why the governments persist doggedly with nuclear power projects that are clearly uneconomic, (and no use in combatting climate change – too late, even if they did work)
The sad and shocking thing about this – is the sort of groupthink that has pretty well everyone on the bandwagon – politicians, media, academia, business, education – and not just those who have been bribed by the nuclear industry. It’s a sort of groupthink treadmill, and they can’t seem to get off it, lest they look unpatriotic, or worse, – silly.
Today. The United Kingdom has a problem – a dangerous, nuclear propagandist clown for a Prime Minister
Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the UK will build one new nuclear plant a year, MON, MAY 2 202
”Instead of a new one every decade, we’re going to build one every year, powering homes with clean, safe and reliable energy,” the British prime minister said of nuclear power stations.”
It’s not the first time the prime minister has touted the advantages of nuclear power. In April, he said “nuclear is a reliable, safe and constant source of clean energy.”
(April tweet) Nuclear is a reliable, safe and constant source of clean energy. It’s absolutely crucial to weaning us off fossil fuels, including Russian oil and gas……… https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/02/boris-johnson-uk-will-build-one-new-nuclear-plant-a-year.html
This week in nuclear news
A bit of good news – We can restore the climate – getting past climate despair. Tasmania has become one of the first parts of the world to become not just carbon neutral but carbon negative .
Coronavirus. Global, new cases and deaths are declining, but still increasing in some countries.
IRussia and the West are closer to nuclear war than they were during the Cuban Missile Crisis, warns Nikita Khrushchev’s daughter – 60 years after her father backed down from Armageddon.
NATO allies marching in lockstep: U.S., Canadian defense chiefs meet twice in a week.
NATO’s national armaments directors discuss Ukraine bonanza
The 1983 Military Drill That Nearly Sparked Nuclear War With the Soviets. U.S. sees no threat of Russia using nuclear weapons despite rhetoric- official. Huge solar storm once almost triggered nuclear war between USA and Russia.
Climate change ‘already’ raising risk of virus spread between mammals.
Climate change is increasing the likelihood of another pandemic, researchers warn.
Solar beats nuclear at many potential settlement sites on Mars. Photovoltaics vs. nuclear power on Mars.
Renewables to be “the new baseload” by 2030, says McKinsey 2022 Global Energy Perspective.
UKRAINE. International Atomic Energy Agency very concerned at dangers at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear complex. Despite deteriorating situation, Ukrainian parliament still insisting on NATO accession. IAEA probing Ukraine report that a missile flew over a nuclear power plant. The USA has not been able to confirm the allegations that Russia used chemical weapons in Ukraine.
JAPAN. Japan prepares to dump water ignoring nuclear safety fears. Japan’s Toxic Dumping Faces Growing Protests.
CANADA. Concerns about commercial wastes destined for disposal in the Chalk River Mound.
USA.
- This Is How the United States Could Help Bring Peace to Ukraine. USA and NATO pursuing a ”winnable war’‘ to the ultimate end – World War 3. ‘A downpayment on WWIII’: Peace advocates blast Biden’s ask for more Ukraine aid.
- Effort to stop banks financing nuclear weapons industry.
- Poor outlook for Joe Biden’s $6 billion effort to keep old nuclear reactors going.
- Safety concerns about NuScam’s much touted ”small nuclear reactor”
- Where will Connecticut’s nuclear waste go?
- Girl’s Cancer Leads Mom to ‘Overwhelming’ Discovery of More Than 50 Sick Kids Near Closed Nuclear Lab.
INDIA. Severe Indian heatwave will bake a billion people and damage crops. Delhi sweltering under extreme heat, electricity shortage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDfZcXVGxSs Pakistan, India reel under intense heat wave.
UK. Britain’s very wrong turn in energy policy.
RUSSIA. ‘Balancing on the brink’: Senior Russian diplomat warns Western powers of nuclear threat. Russia’s Antiquated Nuclear Warning System Jeopardizes Us All. Russia Just Tested the World’s Largest Nuclear-Tipped Missile.
GERMANY. Germany backs a plan to put sanctions on the supply from Russia, of uranium, the fuel for Europe’s so called ”independent self-sufficient, sovereign” nuclear energy.
SWITZERLAND. NATO pulls Switzerland deeper into its meshes — Anti-bellum
FRANCE. Is France really the poster boy for nuclear power? Nearly half of its reactors are shut down for maintenance and safety reasons . The stress corrosion problem could be affecting all of France’s nuclear reactors.
N. KOREA. Kim warns North Korea would ‘pre-emptively’ use nuclear weapons.
IRAN. Europe to Make Fresh Push to Revive Iran Nuclear Deal.
AUSTRALIA. Change of government would present ‘great opportunity’ in fight to free Julian Assange. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8zYQp3rrG8
TODAY: With the macho hawks in charge of Ukraine strategy there may be no hope for our species, unless women take over
I’m sure they’ll be mansplaining it to us until the bitter end.
The pretense continues, that the war in Ukraine is between Russia and Ukraine. Putin and Russia’s macho hawks will rave on about ”special military expedition” or whatever they like to call it.
USA’s and NATO’s macho men will rave on about ”saving democracy” and ”Ukraine’s proud national identity” – but it is becoming crystal clear that they want to drag this slaughter on as long as possible, with an orgy of weapons that will leave Ukraine utterly wrecked, and hoodwinked with the pretense that Ukraine can win.
Not a peep out of the macho men of the West about diplomacy, a negotiation that could end this horror. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin now makes it quite clear that this IS a war between USA and Russia.
Have you ever wondered why these men do themselves up with medals and braid? That’s part of the effort to convince us that they really know what they’re doing.
”’Blind Freddy” could see that the Ukraine war proves the perilous danger of nuclear reactors.
I often wish I knew who ”Blind Freddy” is. He sure is someone that we need in power, in these near suicidal days of war and of countries arking up their militarism.
As the danger of nuclear reactors becomes so patently obvious right now, there’s a frenzy of promotion of nuclear reactors by governments in China, USA, Europe, (notably France), and indeed, across the world
The Ukraine situation, with war surrounding Europe’s largest complex of nuclear reactors – at Zaporizhzhia, surely illustrates how very unwise it is, to have nuclear reactors at all. While everyone, especially Rafael Grossi, head of the IAEA, is scared of a catastrophic accident there, it wouldn’t be the same if it the energy facility were a solar centre, or wind farm. No other method of energy production carries this immense risk of a devastating release of ionising radiation.
The Chernobyl situation is an equally telling one. The disastrous accident happened 36 years ago, yet the site is still terribly dangerous, and made more so by climate change, bringing wildfires close to the crippled reactor. All this, with fighting, shelling, missiles going on. (A somewhat less dangerous situation is in the USA, where the site of the 1971 Santa Susana radiological disaster is threatened by wildfires)
Chernobyl anniversary week – nuclear news
What a week! All about the war crimes – though it is not certain that all these crimes are committed by just one side in this truly awful Ukraine war. Meanwhile Julian Assange is blamed, persecuted, and kept in apparently endless imprisonment for exposing war crimes.
Coronavirus . Latest on worldwide coronavirus spread, and medical developments.
Climate. The climate has become unstable. Scientists warned us for decades. Now even they are rebelling. Why climate change matters for human health.
The US Cries About War Crimes While Imprisoning A Journalist For Exposing Its War Crimes.
Who Profits From Narrative Management & Eliminating Dissent? Big Tech monopolies — Facebook, Google, and Amazon control media in the interests of American militarism. Ukraine: The End Game – A Proxy War and Armageddon – Who are the Flag Waivers supporting? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niyd1bIRnTM&t=20sn America’s aim is not for Ukraine to win, It is to prolong the war and weaken Russia. Western think tanks push permanent NATO presence on Russian border, Asia-Pacific analog — Anti-bellum U.S., allies pour arms into Ukraine for war of prolonged attrition . Nuclear weapons manufacturers see stock prices rise.
How do we assess the dangers of nuclear power plants in wartime? International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day.
The big mistake of sudden renewed optimism about nuclear power. First-ever talks: Pentagon completing integration of EU into transatlantic military network ,
An increased 2 degree Celsius world will not be liveable for vast swathes of humanity – but that’s the latest semi-optimistic research result.
Why are nature-based solutions on climate being overlooked?
UKRAINE. Ukraine can fight Russia ‘for 10 years’ claims Zelensky. Ukraine threatens ‘terrorist’ attack on Crimean Bridge – the longest bridge in Europe. Mariupol – city under siege – the OTHER SIDE OF THIS STORY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2uK2wNxAbM&t=13s Playing with fire at Chornobyl.
JAPAN. Scientists: Japan’s Plan To Dump Nuclear Waste Into The Pacific Ocean May Not Be Safe. Examination of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant for discharge of treated water to be finished; Regulatory Commission to solicit public opinion in May. Fear of broken contaminated pipes being fixed with wire ropes, which may break and sag due to earthquakes, TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Yoshinobu Segawa of Koriyama City, who voluntarily evacuated his wife and children to Saitama City, says the accident “has not been resolved.
Magnitude 5.3 earthquake shakes Fukushima and Ibaraki.
Hibakusha renews call for nuclear abolition. No more nuclear power plants, no more war! 〜4.16 “Sayonara Nuke Plant Metropolitan Area Rally” was held.
EUROPE. Editorial: Will Europe be bled by ten-year war? — Anti-bellum. Overwhelming majority of Members of European Parliament oppose inclusion of nuclear power in Europe’s taxonomy as ”green”.
SWITZERLAND. Swiss population keen for nuclear bunkers, -but it’s doubtful that they’d be any use anyway.
RUSSIA. Russia warns of nuclear weapons in Baltic if Sweden and Finland join NATO. Russia tests nuclear-capable missile that Vladimir Putin says will make enemies ‘think twice’. Russia makes another offer to besieged Ukrainian forces. Over a third of the world’s uranium is supplied by Russian-owned sources.
UK.
- Report that Chinese drones are spying on UK nuclear sites, including submarines.
- The life and slow death of nuclear power plants. Bechtel and Westinghouse will be big on talk but short on delivery for UK’s nuclear projects – Nuclear Free Local Authorities . Grannies For The Future glue themselves to table in protest during nuclear power debate.
- ‘‘Decommissioming” of UK’s dead nuclear reactors is likely to cost the tax-payer much more than planned for. Constant cheap renewable power to Britain – the Sahara wind and solar cables. Energy Department’s own survey shows 8 in 10 Britons support onshore wind – and the Nuclear Free Local Authorities says the Government should back it.
- UK’s Nuclear Free Local Authorities join in Wales’ call to Japan not to dump radioactive wastewater at sea.
KENYA. Treasury allocates Sh2bn for nuclear and coal units, but nuclear is unlikely to happen for decades.
FRANCE. Emmanuel Macron won French election on a wide margin, running on a pro nuclear policy. French election: Macron and Le Pen’s nuclear plans torn apart: ‘Waste of time AND money’. France’s nuclear energy output falling, as signs of corrosion halt several nuclear reactors. Investigations continue into possible stress corrosion in several of EDF’s nuclear reactors in France.
GERMANY. Olaf Scholz cites risk of nuclear war in refusal to send tanks to Ukraine
IRAN. Iran nuclear negotiations at stalemate over IRGC terror listing.
SOUTH AFRICA. South Africa. Fired National Nuclear Regulator board member takes Minister Gwede Mantashe to court.
ISRAEL. Israel ranked as world’s eighth largest nuclear power.
SOUTH KOREA. Greenpeace chief urges Yoon to reevaluate nuclear-focused decarbonization plan.
HUNGARY. Hungary receives nuclear fuel shipment by air from Russia.
SOUTH AFRICA. Floods in South Africa – a ”climate catastrophe of enormous proportions”.
Today: Are we in West being manipulated on a grand scale with deceptive propaganda about the war in Ukraine?
Today I’m posting two videos from Regis Tremblay. I’m sure that Western viewers will hate these, and call the ”Russian propaganda”. And I wish that I could believe that, too,
But I do have an awful fear. Swamped as I am by the tsunami of TV, radio, news, barrage of hyper-emotional depiction of the Ukrainian war, – I cannot help my fearful thought that Regis Tremblay’s speakers are telling the truth.
It’s a painful thought – but I think that the anglophone world, and NATO – the European countries are pulling a giant confidence trick on us all, as we all are led into this frenzy of endless weapons-buying to further the destruction of Ukraine. We are standing by, cheering, as Zelensky and the Ukrainian people are used as pawns, sacrificed, in the cause of the USA discrediting and disrupting Russia
1 This Month
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes – A good documentary on Chernobyl on SBS available On Demand for the next 3 weeks– https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-program/chernobyl-the-lost-tapes/2352741955560
of the week–London Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Tell the Ukrainian Government to Drop Prosecution of Peace Activist Yurii Sheliazhenko
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