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TODAY. Time to ban Israeli sporting teams, just as the world banned South African teams in the 1970s

The Western corporate media has done a terrific job in depicting Israeli hooligans in Amsterdam as victims of anti-semitism . We must hand it to the media for yet again depicting Zionists as the victims.

What happened in Amsterdam has been reported documented and videoed by those on the ground there. A November 8 video report by a 16-year-old who publishes YouTube reports under the moniker “Bender” provided extensive on-the-ground footage of a mob of armed Tel Aviv Maccabi ultras hunting victims, throwing metal poles at police vehicles, threatening journalists, and even being detained after attacking undercover police officers. 

These were Israelis who travelled to Amsterdam ahead of the Uefa Europa League match against Amsterdam club Ajax, and provoked clashes with  pro-Palestinian protesters. Ahead of match on Thursday, fans heading to the Johan Cruyff Arena stadium were seen shouting: “Let the IDF [Israeli army] fuck the Arabs”. After the match ,and later into the night, the Israelis provoked fights with the pro-Palestine youths.

The Gaza known death toll now approaches 44.000 – the media continues to report this as “reported by Hamas” – implying that perhaps we shouldn’t believe that number. In reality, with the unknown bodies beneath the rubble, the number would be much greater.

Yes, Jews have been the victims, over time – with the European pograms, culminating in the holocaust. Like some abused children, the Zionists have grown up to become the abusers, believing in an apartheid system, wherein Jews are the superior beings, and Arabs the inferiors.

In the 1970s and 80’s, the world condemned South Africa’s despicable regime of white superiority, and people in many countries took action, banning South South African goods. Musicians and artists boycotted South Africa, even some banks stopped lending to South Africa. And most painful of all, to the “superior” white South Africans, they were excluded from excluding sporting events, particularly football.

Not that this exclusion put an end to apartheid. Black South Africans, and eventually white ones too, did this. But the movement to end apartheid was greatly helped by international protest and action. The sporting boycott was symbolic of rejection of apartheid.

It is so appropriate, that South Africa is now leading the charge, in international law. South Africa filed 750 pages of “overwhelming” proof that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands. South Africa got rid of its apartheid policy, and now wants Zionist apartheid to end, too.

I am quite proud that my country, Australia, was prominent and outspoken in its banning of apartheid South Africa from sporting events. Now, Australia is joining 158 other countries in backing UN resolution recognising ‘permanent sovereignty’ of Palestinians.

It’s time to recognise who are the victims of the Zionist regime – and it’s not the Zionists – much as the media portrays them as victims.

Time to exclude Israeli sporting teams.

November 17, 2024 Posted by | Christina's notes | Leave a comment

TODAY. The International Atomic Energy Agency in full force with its lying propaganda, at COP 29, with at least 20 ‘Events”.

COP 29 will be a flop anyway – so I suppose that is some kind of twisted comfort – in that very few will trust the outcome of this hijacked UN Climate Summit

From IAEA website’s disgusting propaganda:

“ a rich programme of IAEA and partner events to showcase nuclear science and technology solutions for climate change “

“The IAEA is organizing a series of events on four thematic areas: energy, food, the ocean and water. “

“an informed debate on the tools and benefits offered by nuclear technology”

Hijacked by all the polluting industries, but the biggest liar of the lot is the IAEA – with their full knowledge that nuclear does nothing to fight climate change. And in fact – climate change effects will kill the nuclear industry,

November 13, 2024 Posted by | Christina's notes, climate change | Leave a comment

Climate, nuclear, news and more -this week

Some bits of good news –  

World Children’s Day 2024 – Every year, World’s Children Day is celebrated on 20 November, marking the date that the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted.  Jordan Recognized as First in the World to Eradicate Leprosy


TOP STORIES

Israeli Scholar Lays Out ‘True Brutality’ of Ethnic Cleansing Now Underway in Gaza. 

The Evil Warmongering Zionist Won (No Not That One, The Other One). 

From the archives: Trump has a strategic plan for the country: Gearing up for nuclear war.

Climate. 

Environment. The Guardian view on Trump’s planet-wrecking plans: the UK government’s resolve will be tested.

Noel’s notes. The International Atomic Energy Agency in full force with its lying propaganda, at COP 29, with at least 20 ‘Events”. The Trump period and the use of language.

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AUSTRALIA. 

NUCLEAR ITEMS 

ATROCITIES. Israel Killed Over 50 Children in Jabalia in 48 Hours: UN. Report Details Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing Campaign in Beit Lahia, Northern Gaza.
CULTURE. Trump Puts An Appropriately Ugly Face On A Very Ugly Empire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRThFwyddvk
ECONOMICS. Regulators deliver successive blows to Amazon and Meta’s nuclear power ambitions. Amazon’s nuclear datacenter dreams stall as watchdog rejects power deal.Talen-Amazon Nuclear Power Deal Hits Speed Bump – Why Constellation Stock Is Down More. This is why nuclear power stocks are falling

EDUCATION. Nuclear lobby continues its infiltration of education.
EMPLOYMENT. Hinkley workers ‘unfair’ pay claim leads to action. Hinkley Point and Sizewell nuclear plant engineers go on strike. ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2024/11/07/1-b-hinkley-point-and-sizewell-nuclear-plant-engineers-go-on-strike/

ENERGY. IEA: Countries not on course to double rate of energy efficiency improvement by 2030. Compelling Economics of Renewables Unmask Fossil Fuels and Nuclear.

Endangered Bees Halt Meta’s Nuclear-Powered AI Data Center Plans.

Minimal role for nuclear in UK government agency’s Clean Energy plan.

Clean Energy Community Mobilizes as Trump Rises, Supporters Embrace Project 2025.

ENVIRONMENT. Radioactive pollution from bomb plant sparks cancer fears. Radioactivity in Food and the Environment (RIFE) report UK published.

HEALTH. Radiation. Occupational exposure to radiation among health workers: Genome integrity and predictors of exposure.

LEGAL. The death of Karen Silkwood—and the plutonium economy. Three sentenced to death for role in Iranian nuclear scientist’s assassination .

MEDIA. A massacre within a massacre: How journalists reporting on Gaza deaths are being targeted.The Government-Media-Academia Misinformation Machine and “Ukraine’s Victory”.
OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Seven Canadian environmental groups challenge the nuclear industry’s false claims ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2024/11/07/1-b1-seven-canadian-environmental-groups-challenge-the-nuclear-industrys-false-claims/

POLITICS.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.Everybody Wants to Join BRICS.Can Trump 2.0 defuse the nuclear threat? These Washington heavyweights fear not.Iran says it rejects nuclear weapons, but will defend itself by all means. UN nuclear head to visit Iran for talks on country’s nuclear program as next Trump presidency looms.UK says it voted against UN nuclear war panel because consequences already known. Poodles and puppet masters – Mutual Defence Agreement puts USA in charge of UK military policy.
SAFETY. Can quake-prone Japan ever embrace nuclear energy again? When you combine AI and nuclear power, the results can be catastrophic .
SECRETS and LIES. COP 29 chief exec filmed promoting fossil fuel deals.
TECHNOLOGY. Japanese nuclear reactor that restarted 13 years after Fukushima disaster is shut down again. Micro-reactor developer optimistic about connecting South Wales project by 2027.
WASTES. Germany excludes over half of its territory in search for long-term nuclear waste storage.
Robot Removes First Bit Of Fukushima’s Nuclear Fuel Debris – Just 880 Tons More To Go. Nuclear debris retrieved from Fukushima reactor weighs 0.7 gram. Tepco removes [a tiny sceric] of nuclear fuel debris from Fukushima disaster site.
WAR and CONFLICT. Israel’s attacks on Iran were an apocalyptic error by Netanyahu. Here’s why.
Foreign Policy: NATO knows Ukraine is losing. Russia’s Swift March Forward in Ukraine’s East. Biden, Zelensky ponder face saving off ramp from failed US proxy war against Russia.
WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES.
US F-15 Fighter Jets Arrive in Middle East as Part of Buildup Aimed at Iran, US Bombers Arrive in Middle East as Part of New Deployment for Israel. F-35 components sent to Israel from Royal Air Force base.

Iran says it can produce nuclear weapon if faced with existential threat.

The Great American Nuclear Weapons Upgrade.
US nuclear weapons could be sited in RAF Lakenheath in spring, CND protest hears.

Fifty two nations call for global arms embargo on Israel. Depleted uranium: Is Israel using depleted uranium to bomb Lebanon?

Biden Team Wants To Rush Weapons Shipments to Ukraine Before Trump Inauguration. With Trump back in White House, can Ukraine opt for nuclear deterrence?

November 11, 2024 Posted by | Christina's notes | Leave a comment

Rafael Gross’ and the IAEA’s breath-taking hypocrisy , as the nuclear lobby revs up for COP 28.

November 2023

There is no limit to their bravado and hypocrisy. They know that nuclear power is really for the weapons industry. They know it is not really safe. That it emits radiation – causes cancer. That there’s no solution for its eternal toxic wastes. That it is obscenely expensive.

And – they know that even if nuclear works against climate change (which it doesn’t), it would never be up and running in time to make any difference, as climate change is upon us now.

Does that stop these shameless hypocrites?

“In his opening statement to the IAEA’s Board of Governors today, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi spoke of the importance of food security in a world where hunger is on the rise, and in many cases is worsening due to climate change. 

“Over the past three years the number of people who go hungry in the world has increased by almost a fifth,” Mr Grossi said in his statement to the Board, which is meeting at the IAEA’s Vienna headquarters from 22­-24 November. The IAEA and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have joined forces in response to this challenge. Mr Grossi and FAO Director General Qu Dongyu  launched Atoms4Food at the World Food Forum last month in Rome. The joint initiative aims to increase global food security and tackle growing hunger through the use of nuclear techniques………..

COP28

Looking ahead to the 28th Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Dubai next month, Mr Grossi noted the growing global momentum on nuclear energy. “For the first time in the history of COP, nuclear countries will be able to say ‘yes, we are here, yes nuclear energy is part of the solution for this global climate crisis that we have’.”

The IAEA will showcase initiatives such as Atoms4NetZero and Atoms4Food at COP28 as well as other aspects of its work in helping the world monitor, mitigate and adapt to climate change.

November 11, 2024 Posted by | Christina's notes | Leave a comment

TODAY . COP 29 global climate summit – already a dead duck.

In the midst of all the brouhaha about the election of a deranged narcissist to be in charge of America, we must remember what is really the biggest danger to our Earth – climate change – global heating

 The 29th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29), will take place from November 11 to 22 in 2024 at Baku Stadium, Azerbaijan, from 11 to 22 November 2024.

There will be good people there, and I’m not rubbishing their work.

Still, at the top level, corporate greed will be running the show.

FIRST. to start with, the host, Azerbaijan- is a massive exporter of oil and gas, – global fossil fuel lobbyists will be welcome there and money will be splurged on an attractive greenwash of the dirtiest industries

SECOND. As if having the fossil fuel industries in control was not bad enough, we have their close mate, the nuclear industry, jumping on the bandwagon, with its lucrative claims about “solving” the climate crisis .

THIRD. Politics international. Ursula von der Leyen, the big cheese of the European Commission, will not be attending. Nor will France’s Emmanuel Macron, the current US president, Joe Biden, and the Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, . The leaders of China, South Africa, Japan and Australia are expected to miss the talks as well. This sends a clear message that climate change is not a concern for top world leaders

THIRD. American politics now. I’m not a fan of Joe Biden, but the Biden administration deserves credit . The U.S. Inflation Reduction Act has been successful in promoting truly clean energy (even though it does contain sops to the nuclear industry). Many Americans have now become painfully aware of the extreme effects of global heating, and the USA’s clean energy success will be hard for the climate deniers to unravel. But still, in January, Trump’s climate denial administration will take over, and this fact does cast a damper on COP29.

We know that there are millions of people who are dedicated to the cause of a clean world, and of stopping global heating. We are up against the globally amoral corporateaucracy .

November 9, 2024 Posted by | Christina's notes, climate change | Leave a comment

TODAY. The Trump period and the use of language

I struggle to think about what language to use.

Today, Caitlin Johnstone writes “The Evil Warmongering Zionist Won” – (No Not That One, The Other One)

I read her article, and agree with every word. But do some readers find this title a “turnoff”? I did, because I was brung up to believe that quieter, less emotive language was the way to go. Now, I’m not sure.

The people of world’s greatest power have elected a foul-mouthed, misogynist, deluded megalomaniac who is a convicted felon, strongly supported by another deluded billionaire megalomaniac the ketamine-and-Mars addled Elon Musk. Trump is surrounded by yes-mean of no integrity whatsoever, and promoted by billionaires of no integrity.

How did it happen?

How did they put it over not only the disgruntled poor of the USA, but many others – to believe that if times are bad now – this despicable sociopath could magically put things right?

By now, some of my very limited reading public will have turned away – because of my use of language. But I’m not as “bad” as Caitlin. Trouble is – we’re actually telling the truth.

It is going to be very hard now, for all of us to weave our way through all the commentaries – all made more difficult by the tsunami of social media, of the ‘respectable mainstream media’ and of AI.

I wish that I could give wonderful advice on how to assess the truth or otherwise, of what we read, see and hear. But there are people of integrity out there, and it is our job to find them and listen to them – and indeed , to avoid emotive language (when possible).

November 7, 2024 Posted by | Christina's notes, culture and arts | 1 Comment

To 4 November – nuclear news, and more

Some bits of good news – Public health wins in Kenya, Uganda, Bangladesh, and Tanzania.   Peace on the horizon between China and India.

 A decline in carbon emissions in China is still in play.  

People power – 30 years of renewable energy: one company’s success story

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TOP STORIES. 

The Rise and Fall of NuScale: a nuclear cautionary tale. 

“Ford Watch: The Largest Nuclear Expansion in Canada’s History”. 

New Nuclear – Unaffordable, Undesirable and Unachievable

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Climate. UK lobbyists accused of ‘greenwashing’ oil-rich Azerbaijan before Baku COP summit

Record levels of heat-related deaths in 2023 due to climate crisis, report finds. Half of world’s biggest cities to face severe climate risks by 2050, LSEG finds.  Why were the floods in Spain so bad? A visual guide.  Climate Researchers Warn: Warmer Climate Could Lead To “Cold Waves Across Northern Europe”!

Noel’s notes. Canadians are waking up to the nuclear scam– Why are the media and other nations pretending that nuclear is just dandy?

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AUSTRALIA. 
Australian Civil Society Statement for COP29Baku, Azerbaijan.  Australia votes at the UN General Assembly. More Australian news at  https://antinuclear.net/2024/10/24/australian-nuclear-news-21-28-october/

NUCLEAR ITEMS 

ATROCITIES. Banning United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is a new way to kill children, aid groups warn. Oxfam reaction to Knesset decision. Israeli Knesset Passes Bill To Ban UN Palestinian Relief Agency.
CLIMATE. New Paper: Nuclear Weapons and Our Climate.
CIVIL LIBERTIES. Witnesses say the Israeli army is using facial recognition technology in its assault on north Gaza.
CULTURE. The Mainstream Western Worldview Pretends The Global South Does Not Exist. Israel will eventually pay price for Gaza genocide going on for a year: Turkish President Erdogana- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtoWptrhPOM

ECONOMICS.

EVENTS. CND to protest return of US nuclear weapons to Britain ahead of US presidential election. PETITION. Call for Peacekeeping Forces to Stop Israel’s Genocide

INDIGENOUS ISSUES. Saugeen Ojibway Nation stands firm on nuclear waste decision despite South Bruce vote
LEGAL. South Africa Files 750 Pages of ‘Overwhelming’ Evidence in ICJ Genocide Case Against Israel.
MEDIA. Israel Kills Five Journalists in Sunday Gaza Attacks. Israel kills the journalists-Western media kills the truth of genocide in Gaza . Despite History of Fabrication, Press Uncritically Covers IDF-Provided Documents on Hamas. 101 BBC journalists say it is biased against Palestine.
Atomic Reaction – a highly recommended feature-length documentary film.
OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR .South Bruce Deep Geological Repositary (DGR) opposition promises to keep fighting.
Gravelines nuclear power plant: EDF refuses to respond on flood risks and tries to silence whistleblowers.
Campaigners slam chancellor Rachel Reeves for £2.7 billion pledge to nuclear power station.
After two months, Nuclear Free Local Authorities receive vague response on Advanced’ Gas-Cooled Reactors (AGRs).

POLITICS.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.

SAFETY. Reeves urged not to cut Sellafield funds amid concern at rise in ‘near misses’.
The non-proliferation considerations of nuclear-powered submarines.
Onagawa nuclear plant’s restart sparks concerns over evacuation routes.
SECRETS and LIES. Yeah, Yeah, United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Is Hamas. Everyone Israel Hates Is Hamas.
Lest we forget – Nuclear Power Runs on Dirty Money: The Corporate Scandal of the Proposed National Nuclear Subsidy. 
Congress Must Investigate Corruption in Nuclear Energy Industry.

SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS.
 ExoAnalytic observes 500 pieces of debris from Intelsat 33e breakup

WASTES.

WAR and CONFLICT. South has raised risk of nuclear war, North Korea says.
WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. Report: US Sitting on Nearly 500 Reports of US Weapons Killing Civilians in Gaza.
Department of Defense Releases Fiscal Year 2024 Military Intelligence Program Budget – just the bare $29.8 billion.
Why ‘British’ nuclear weapons are really very American.

November 4, 2024 Posted by | Christina's notes | Leave a comment

TODAY. Canadians are waking up to the nuclear scam. Why are the media and other nations pretending that nuclear is just dandy?

I do read quite a few criticisms of the nuclear industry, from various non-profit groups. But lately, there’s a whole heap of them from Canada. And the unnerving thing is that these pesky Canadians are giving “chapter and verse” – facts and figures on how bad things really are, for the nuclear industry.

Of course, the Canadian, and indeed, the global nuclear lobby too, are pretending not to notice this. (But they must be a tad worried, lest too many intelligent people in other countries catch on to this annoying attention to detail)

Susan O’Donnell writes about New Brunswick’s nuclear fantasies – the history of successive governments pouring tax-payers’ money into “advanced” reactor designs that are known by reputable scientists to be commercially unviable. -The Higgs government passing legislation forcing NB Power to buy electricity, at any price, from SMRs if they are ever built and actually work.

The companies involved have been unable to entice private investors, and are unlikely to get federal funding. NB Power’s $5.4-billion debt is mainly due to the poor performance of its Point Lepreau nuclear reactor. New Brunswickers are facing a 19.4 per cent increase in electricity rates. “Keeping the Point Lepreau and SMR fantasies alive will require considerable effort from the new government. “

Another recent example – from the Seniors for Climate Action Now! (SCAN):

They point out :

  • the scandal-ridden nuclear history. 
  • the revolving door between government officials and nuclear industry well-paid jobs.  
  • the government/industry nuclear pitch to NATO-  “Ontario is selling itself as the nuclear North Star to guide the direction of American power”. 
  • the failure of theNuScale SMR project.  
  • OPG’s lengthy submission on small nuclear reactors is full of the things that could go wrong.
  •  the over $40billion cost of refurbishing old end-of-life reactors. 
  • New nuclear reactors at over $60billion

They raise such awkward questions about “Ontario’s journey to becoming an energy superpower”

But then, I forgot that this comes from Seniors. And I’ve just remembered that the nuclear industry is all about the young cool and trendy.

There are so many views from Canadians exploding the nuclear propaganda. And they’re not all old fogeys.

November 2, 2024 Posted by | business and costs, Canada, Christina's notes, politics | Leave a comment

This week: countering the nuclear-military-industrial news.

A bit of good news. UNICEF highlights four proven policy solutions for children 

TOP STORIES 

Israel’s War on Journalism.   Israel’s Iran reprisal, Middle East destabilized.    ‘This is an extermination’: Israel’s assault on north Gaza’s last functioning hospital. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wKluf25Or0 

Sellafield cleanup cost rises to £136bn amid tensions with Treasury. 

 Japan struggles to find nuclear waste disposal site.

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Climate. Climate Goal “Will Be Dead Within a Few Years” Unless World Acts, UN Warns.     UNEP: New climate pledges need ‘quantum leap’ in ambition to deliver Paris goals.‘Climate crunch time’: UN warns world risks over 3C warming without urgent action this decade. 

‘We have emotions too’: Climate scientists respond to attacks on objectivity. 

Cop29 host Azerbaijan set for major fossil gas expansion, report says.

Biodiversity. Humanity is on the verge of ‘shattering Earth’s natural limits’, say experts in biodiversity warning

Noel’s notes.  Weep for Gaza, the Palestinians, weep for the Jews- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wKluf25Or0    Behind the really nasty “NICE” nuclear energy push to control the November COP Climate Change Conference. The world’s top lying nuclear salesman is after your climate action money.

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AUSTRALIA. Top Australian honour (whaa-at !!!!) for American politician who helped push Australia into the AUKUS agreement.    Union slams “false hope” in nuclear push, warns energy jobs at risk. Matt Kean lambasts ‘wild fantasy’ of former Coalition colleagues to extend coal power and build nuclear plants. Drink up: Peter Dutton needs one billion empty Coke cans to store his nuclear waste.     More nuclear news headlines at https://antinuclear.net/2024/10/24/australian-nuclear-news-21-28-october/

NUCLEAR ITEMS.

ATROCITIES. The Gazafication of Lebanon: Israel Blows up Nabatieh City Hall, kills Mayor and Aid Workers. When The Holocaust Returned It Came Denouncing Anti-Semitism And Wearing A Star Of David.
CLIMATE. Nuclear lobby on track to sabotage COP29 . Book: Meltdown nightmares: silent spring for climate change.
CIVIL LIBERTIES. Literary Institutions Are Pressuring Authors to Remain Silent About Gaza.
ECONOMICS. Cost overruns at Sellafield nuclear waste site to hit £136bn ALSO AT …..
EDUCATION. Nuclear lobby continues to infiltrate education. Nuclear lobby propagandises to kids AGAIN!
EMPLOYMENT. Green jobs and green skills – the state of play.
ENERGY. How data centres will cut carbon emissions, not increase them. Will AI’s huge energy demands spur a nuclear renaissance?
ENVIRONMENT. ‘Millions of fish could die’ under current Hinkley Point C plan. Fears salt marsh plan could lead to ‘destruction’ of Severn Vale.   Somerset village would be devastated by salt marsh plans.  Navy ‘Innovation’ Center  for “warfighting capabilities” will harm the Monterey Peninsula and ocean. Wildlife Refuge’s Toxic Past Still A Colorado Concern. Inside the radioactive island with mutant sharks that was used to test nuclear bombs.
EVENTS. Petition (UK). Scrutinise Sizewell C
HEALTH. Crew members on Royal Navy nuclear submarine left with ‘low supplies’ and suffering fatigue.
LEGAL. UK Snubs Council of Europe Over Assange Inquiry. Fighting for More Evidence of Assange’s Political Prosecution.
MEDIA. Media Hawks Make Case for War Against Iran. Israel Continues Its War On Journalism. Let’s talk about…Mainstream Media (MSM) Coverage of Israeli War Crimes. Western Press Scramble To Frame Israel’s Attack On Iran As Self Defense. Ha ha – Facebook removed my post AGAIN!
OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . ‘Nuclear waste would be disaster for our seaside’.
PLUTONIUM. Isotopic signature of plutonium accumulated in cryoconite on glaciers worldwide.

POLITICS.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. Path to peace in Ukraine is thru negotiated settlement, not escalatory war that could go nuclear.

Iran complains to IAEA about possible Israeli attack on nuclear sites. Biden to Bibi: ‘OK to continue Gaza genocide till after election’. President Biden’s depraved last 15 months enables Israel’s genocidal destruction of Gaza.

SAFETY.Iran complains to UN nuclear watchdog about Israeli threats against its nuclear sites.US nuclear regulator kicks off review on Three Mile Island restart.Letter laments the unscientific assurances of safety by spokesmen from the nuclear industry.Are Royal Navy nuclear deterrent submarines being re-supplied mid-patrol?
SECRETS and LIES. Mini-Nukes, Big Bucks: The Interests Behind the SMR Push.US authorizes CIA mercenaries to run biometric concentration camps in Gaza Strip.Secrecy over radioactive pollution from nuclear bases.
SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. Space Tech Is How Israel Targets Doctors’ & Journalists’ Homes For Bombing.
SPINBUSTER. Alistair Osborne – nuclear is waste of time and money– ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2024/10/25/2-a-alistair-osborne-nuclear-is-waste-of-time-and-money/‘You couldn’t make this up’: Expert pans Ontario nuclear option.
TECHNOLOGY. Three Mile Island nuclear plant gears up for Big Tech reboot.
URANIUM. Nuclear Energy Firm Orano Halts Niger Uranium Production

WASTES.

WAR and CONFLICT. Israel strikes Iran military targets amid fears of a wider war.
WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. CND condemns ‘outrageous railroading’ of US-UK nuclear agreement renewal through Parliament.

October 28, 2024 Posted by | Christina's notes | Leave a comment

Weep for Gaza, the Palestinians, weep for the Jews

It has now become so horrible – is the world turning away? Is it atrocity fatigue?

Look at the courage of the Jewish people in B’Tselem –  The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, based in Jerusalem. If they have the guts to speak out – why is everybody else – especially the Biden administration and the corporate media pretending it’s all OK?

As I’ve pointed out before – there was some excuse for the Western world pretending not to notice the atrocity- the genocide – going on in Germany 1936 – 1945, because it was not so widely known – no big media coverage in the press and radio then available.

There’s no excuse now – with extraordinary journalistic evidence coming out daily – first hand videos, audios, – the courage of ordinary people and those few journalists still able to report from Gaza. Israel stops journalists from entering Gaza, and kills those who are there.

Apart from the small matter of Israel’s military aggression leading to World War 3, the Israeli government’s systematic killing of Gazans has reached a point where it is so horrendous and should be stopped now while there are still some Gazans left.

How can the world continue to believe the blitherings of Blinken and Biden?

Biden could stop the Gaza killings today – could stop supplying the weapons to Israel

Apart from the horrors suffered by the Palestinians right now – what’s going to happen to the Jews after all this?

In the USA, we have the absurdity of the arresting of Jews who protested against this Gaza genocide – and these Jews are being called “anti-semitic”.

In fact – anti-semitism is on the rise – because people are confusing the barbarity of the Netanyahu government with true Jewish religion.

While many of us – distant onlookers – feel for the suffering of the Palestinians – we may later also feel for Jews worldwide – perhaps victims of a new wave of anti-semitism.

October 26, 2024 Posted by | Christina's notes | Leave a comment

TODAY. Behind the really nasty “NICE” nuclear energy push to control the November COP Climate Change Conference.

Prepare to be dangerously greenwashed.”

The billionaires and other manipulators have been planning this for years

Their goal is to direct United Nations policy, and the finances for climate action, towards the nuclear industry . Their motives are mixed, but MONEY is the big one.

The 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC, more commonly known as COP29, will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan from 11 to 22 November, 2024. 

The nuclear push is led by a relatively small phalanx of wealthy, powerful individuals – not many in number, compared to the many thousands of people who have qualms about the nuclear lobby running the show at Azerbaijan . But of course, the nuke lobby will be helped along by the fossil fuel giants. If nuclear is accepted as the cure for climate change, there will be a delay of decades for nuclear power to get going again – which means that oil, gas, coal will have full sway.

Nuclear and fossil fuel energies are partners in this crime against our planet.

Even at the 2015 COP  Paris Climate Agreement, nuclear ‘influencers’ like Ernest Moniz and Bill Gates were touting the plan – nuclear as the cheap way to fund climate action. A plan quickly taken up by Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Marc Benioff (Salesforce), Michael Bloomberg, Richard Branson, Jack Ma (Alibaba), David Rubenstein (Carlyle Group), Tom Steyer, George Soros, and Mark Zuckerberg – forming the Breakthrough Institute

Now it was time to really go for the tax-payers’ money, as Bill Gates launched Mission Innovation – to “increase government support” for new generation nuclear technologies. Mission Innovation involves 24 national governments, including the USA, Canada, China and India, the World Economic Forum, the International Energy Agency, and the World Bank.

Joyce Nelson has outlined the development of this “nuclear for climate” push, kicking off the new enthusiasm for small nuclear reactors, especially in Canada, around 2018. No surprise that the scandal-ridden company SNC-Lavalin jumped onto this bandwagon, forming a consortium the Canadian National Energy Alliance (CNEA)

By 2018, Gates was launching Breakthrough Energy Europe, a collaboration with the European Commission. In 1919 Canada hosted the Clean Energy Ministerial/Mission Innovation summit launching NICE -the “Nuclear Innovation Clean Energy Future”

M.V. Ramana warned in advance of the summit, “Note to Ministers from 25 countries: Prepare to be dangerously greenwashed.”

I doubt that the COP 29 summit has any credibility with intelligent people. Held in Azerbaijan, one of the world’s worst petrochemical autocracies, this supposed climate action meeting will be one blatant front for the fossil fuel lobby, as well as the nuclear one.

Sad to have the United Nations sponsoring this pack of liars.

October 24, 2024 Posted by | Christina's notes, climate change | Leave a comment

This week – countering the nuclear-military-industrial -complex

Some bits of good news –  Powering Up the Global South    Elimination of trachoma as a public health problem in India. A powerful new film shows nature restoration in action.

TOP STORIES. 

Is it worse to have no climate solutions – or to have them but refuse to use them?

Israel attacks the United Nations . 

Secrets and Lies: This is how the West doomed Ukraine.Senior U.S. Diplomats, Journalists, Academics and Secretaries of Defense Say: the U.S. Provoked Russia in Ukraine.
Nuclear disarmament is an urgent cause in a world on the brink.
The Energy Department just made one plutonium pit. -making more is uncertain.


Making “Australia a Global Nuclear Waste Dump”: Senator Shoebridge on Labor’s Latest Betrayal.

Climate. The Atlantic Ocean’s currents are on the verge of collapse. This is what it means for the planet.

Noel’s notes.   All the way with AI – up, up, then -into the abyss?  Media enthusiasm for dodgy “cutting edge Lego-like micro-nuclear power plants” , (but doubts creep in).

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AUSTRALIA
Congressional report suggests Australia could dump plans to acquire AUKUS nuclear submarines. Australia’s democracy trashed, as Labor government + Liberal opposition join forces to push AUKUS bills through. Queensland Premier Steven Miles is promising to hold a vote on nuclear power. Here’s why. Deadly war for journalists.  More Australian nuclear news at https://antinuclear.net/2024/10/15/australian-nuclear-news-headlines-14-21-october/

NUCLEAR ITEMS

ARTS and CULTURE. “We’re Spending 2 Trillion Dollars on Weapons That Must Never Be Used”
ATROCITIES. Israel Is Routinely Shooting Children in the Head in Gaza: US Surgeon & Palestinian Nurse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgSZ1fTk4r8. We’re Basically Being Asked To Believe That The Palestinians Are Genociding Themselves.       Gabor Mate: ‘It’s like we’re watching Auschwitz on TikTok’.
CLIMATE. The world’s top lying nuclear salesman is after your climate action money. How carbon capture and storage and nuclear are adding little to decarbonisation compared to solar and wind.
ECONOMICS. ‘A catastrophically poor bargain for the UK’: Experts verdict on government plan for new nuclear finance. New investment sought for Hinkley Point C as French twin nuclear reactor switched on. Apollo Global Management Inc in Talks to Partly Finance EDF’s Hinkley UK Nuclear Power Plant.
ENERGY. Open AI Wants to Build Data Centres That Would Consume More Electricity Per Year Than the Whole of the U.K. Small nuclear reactors won’t be ready in time for the needs of energy-guzzling needs of Artificial Intelligence ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2024/10/18/2-b1-small-nuclear-reactors-wont-be-ready-in-time-for-the-needs-of-energy-guzzling-needs-of-artificisal-intelligence/
ENVIRONMENT. Oceans. A nuclear kettle of fish at Hinkley Point C. North Somerset village urges re-think on EDF salt marshes. Councillors raise concerns over fish populations at Hinkley C.Some Types of Pollution Are More Equal than Others.
LEGAL. Plutonium just had a bad day in court.Environmental groups challenge the nuclear industry’s portrayal of its energy as “clean” and “non-emitting,” citing health risks and long-term radioactive waste.
MEDIA. Revealed: The Israeli Spies Writing America’s News. Book: THE FALL OF ISRAEL: The Degradation of Israel’s Politics, Economy & Military. Deadly war for journalists – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykKth4sEbII
OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Campaigners welcome international investors to UK summit but urge them to boycott “toxic investment” Sizewell C 14.10.24. Open Letter to the Department for Energy Security –new nuclear power ‘a catastrophically poor bargain’
POLITICS. US opens applications for $900 million for small nuclear reactors (article includes a note of caution). Years after nuclear fiasco soaked ratepayers, leaders look at restarting VC Summer project .
POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. “Goodbye Lebanon” – High Israeli Official. Biden Says OK, So Far. “Israel must be expelled from the United Nations”. Israel’s War on the United Nations. Another Phony Biden PR Stunt About Humanitarian Aid In Gaza.Ukraine ‘will seek nuclear weapons’ if it cannot join Nato. Biden should channel Trump and talk to Putin.
North Somerset MP objects to salt marsh at Kingston Seymour.
SAFETY. New phase in safety work on Chernobyl’s original shelter. Incidents. Nuclear Missile Submarines Collided (Armed with Hundreds of Nuclear Weapons).
SECRETS and LIES. Exposed: How Israeli spies control your VPN (Virtual Private Network).Zelensky aide reveals secret clauses of ‘victory plan’.

SPINBUSTER.Refuting myths about nuclear and renewable energy.The Irony of Powering AI on Atomic Energy.Competition Bureau asked to address nuclear industry’s false and misleading claims of “clean” and “non-emitting” energy.
TECHNOLOGY. Google Pivots to Nuclear Reactors to Power Its Artificial Intelligence. What does Google’s move into nuclear power mean for AI – and the world? Amazon bets on nuclear power to fuel AI ambitions.
To make nuclear fusion a reliable energy source one day, scientists will first need to design heat- and radiation-resilient materials
WASTES. How to build a nuclear tomb to last millennia.Decommissioning. First ex-Royal Navy nuclear submarine to be disposed of enters final dismantling phase. Video. Gordon Edwards on Nuclear Fuel Waste Abandonment (South Bruce).
WAR and CONFLICT. Volodomyr’s World: A Delusional ‘Victory Plan’.
Widening the War: The US Sends Troops to Israel. Leaked US Intelligence Documents Outline Israeli Preparations to Strike Iran. Nuclear Fever: War Mongering on Iran. Report: Israel Plans To Strike Iran Before US Presidential Election.  Will Israel cross the red line of targeting Iran’s nuclear sites? An Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities could backfire.
Under the shadow of a NATO-Russia nuclear war, Hibakusha awarded Nobel Peace Prize.

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. 200+ Jewish-Led Protesters Arrested at NY Stock Exchange Say ‘Stop Arming Israel’. U.S. to Deploy Missile Defense System and About 100 Troops to Israel.

Germany Dismisses Ukraine’s Demands for Taurus Missiles and NATO Membership. Ukraine must have nukes or NATO – Zelensky.

NATO Announces Nuclear Drills as Nobel Goes to Atomic Weapon Abolitionists.

China’s openness about its latest nuclear missile test shows growing confidence vis-à-vis the United States. China not part of nuclear arms race, says envoy.

October 21, 2024 Posted by | Christina's notes | Leave a comment

TODAY. All the way with AI – up, up, then -into the abyss?

In Australia – way back – we used to say “All the way with USA!”. (We still do – can’t help it – it’s our “cultural cringe” – we think we’re a bit stupid).s

But sorry – all the way with AI doesn’t rhyme – which makes the whole thing even gratingly worse.

I’ve been alerted to this global problem by the wonderful article “ Is it worse to have no climate solutions – or to have them but refuse to use them?“, by the heretical Rebecca Solnit. In a previous era, she would have been burnt at the stake. Probably still will be, the way things are going.

At least she’ll have company- there are bound to be many deaths as wildfires become more prevalent and more severe. Yes, I’m talking about climate change – that boring old subject, which shouldn’t get a mention in the media, while we obsess over important stuff, Trump’s caps, and childless cat ladies.

It’s not as if Rebecca Solnit is telling us anything new, really. We all know that big leaps in technology are led by ambitious, technically brilliant, highly competitive men. Somehow or other, we revere these men, even though some of them clearly have a strangely lop-sided cognitive state -with a deficit in integrity and ethics.

That’s why “progress” from way back, then through the industrial revolution, and now the digital revolution has been accompanied by shocking exploitation of millions of people . It’s been the ill-treatment of “the working class”, of indigenous peoples – to develop mines, and progress in transport and modern industries, and of course, in warfare. But still we admired and followed the “captains of industry” who led us all into the mixed bag of “progress”

Today’s captains of industry – Musk, Gates, Bezos, Zuckerberg – and about 7 more digital champions are headed towards becoming trillionaires – with many other clever technical billionaires in the running, too. Along with their obscene wealth goes their power and influence over governments , education, and media.

Rebecca Solnit brings something different to this discussion. She simply points out, using the example of former Google CEO Eric Schmidt  – the mindset that we should not worry about climate change – we should go ahead with AI because somehow Artificial Intelligence will solve the problem.

As Solnit says “decoy is the new denial” , meaning that “we ignore workable present-day solutions in favor of unworkable and nonexistent ones while continuing to burn fossil fuel.”

We know that the solutions are there – thousands of scientists are telling us. But these thousands of men, and women, too – have more normal brains, including qualities of integrity and ethics, and the ability to look at the total picture, and imagine the future.

Sorry, but to me, the tech squillionaires are looking increasingly like the Christian religious figures of the past – who frightened the public with fears of burning in hell, and then sold the public “indulgences” that were supposed to save them from hell.

October 19, 2024 Posted by | Christina's notes | Leave a comment

TODAY. Media enthusiasm for dodgy “cutting edge Lego-like micro-nuclear power plants” , (but doubts creep in).

modules assembled “like a LEGO kit” and designed to be fabricated, transported, and assembled within 24 months”

BUT -“the tech is still in the early stages and faces a myriad of hurdles.”

“has yet to obtain licensing and planning approvals“

“How the new fleet of SMRs will be funded has yet to be established. The technology is not yet generating power anywhere in the world”

I am fascinated with the way that the media continues to obediently trot out the official dogma that small nuclear reactors are the new great white hope – for everything – jobs, reduce carbon emissions, revitalise the economy, cheap, clean, plentiful energy, – blah blah. The interesting thing is that, in the midst of their enthusiasm, some respectable news outlets occasionally now slip in a little bit of doubt.

A couple of examples of doubt from the UK.:

Guy Taylor, Transport and Infrastructure Correspondent at City A.M. enthuses over a “hotly anticipated tender“ surrounding the development of Small Modular Reactors (SMR)’s in the UK. A micro reactor project in Wales will bring  energy for 244,000 UK homes – “will pump around £30m into the local economy”.

But he also mentions that  “the tech is still in the early stages and faces a myriad of hurdles.”

  Ian Weinfass, in Construction News gives a positive, optimistic, story on this micro nuclear reactor development, but clearly states that the company (Last Energy) “has yet to obtain licensing and planning approvals for its technology.“ He tellingly concludes “How the new fleet of SMRs will be funded has yet to be established. The technology is not yet generating power anywhere in the world”

However, don’t fret, little nuclear rent-seekers! Most of the media is still obedient, and they know which side their bread is buttered on . Sion Barry, writing in Wales Online, describes the same “24/7 clean energy” project as “of national significance“. There’s a reassuring note about wastes, and the barest mention of “planning and licensing approvals“. Business Green discusses the Last Energy plan as “clean energy”  – modules assembled “like a LEGO kit” and designed to be fabricated, transported, and assembled within 24 months”

News media, on the whole, are happy to uncritically trot out a nuclear company’s line – as we find this same project touted in Reuters, in Power, Sustainable Times, in New Civil Engineer. On Google News today, there are 15 similar articles, with only Yahoo! News including a tad of doubt about local public reaction.

And by the way, Tom Pashby in New Civil Engineer also adds to the joy by telling us that the company involved, Last Energy is working with Nato on military applications of micro-reactors.

October 17, 2024 Posted by | Christina's notes, Small Modular Nuclear Reactors | Leave a comment

This week’s news – not from the nuclear-military-industrial-complex

Some bits of good news – Australia quadruples the size of marine reserve near Antarctica. The world’s spending to fight global lead poisoning just doubled. Seoul’s Han River is being restored

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TOP STORIES

Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff: Middle East Exploding, Ukraine Crumbling, US to Take Action? – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXDz1PdMWao.

“Escalation dominance” and the new nuclear threat: We face more than 1,000 Holocausts.

Israeli retaliation threat sparks call in Iran for nuclear weapons.

Japanese anti-nuclear organisation awarded 2024 Nobel Peace Prize – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCm3CStSao8

Radiation: Updated findings provide insights into radiation exposure’s impact on cancer risk.

Renewable Energy Surge Lowers UK Blackout Risk.

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Climate. Unprecedented peril: disaster lies ahead as we track towards 2.7°C of warming this century. The climate crisis threatens societal collapse—how many more hurricanes will it take for us to wake up?

Biodiversity. WWF: Average wildlife populations have fallen 73 per cent in 50 years.

Noel’s notes. Vitriolic hatred of Arabs and Russians versus THINKING and practical military strategy. The “tech bros” are going to have a global party with AI in warfare. Should we let them be in control?. How in the hell do you cope with Facebook?

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AUSTRALIA. Albanese and Dutton team up on toxic AUKUS nuclear waste deal. One of Australia’s largest unions, the ETU, questions Australia’s billion-dollar nuclear price tag. Australia’s evolving nuclear posture: avoiding a fait accompli (Part 1 of 2).

Labor springs surprise nuclear power committee to call Coalition bluff on energy policy. John Hewson –The opposition leader’s nuclear bullshit. More Australian nuclear news at https://antinuclear.net/2024/10/10/australian-nuclear-news-headlines-oct-7-14/

NUCLEAR ITEMS

ART and CULTURE. One Horrible Year on from October 7 2023, a Bleak Reflection.
ATROCITIES. Israel: Simply no red lines at all.  Let’s remember the365 days of genocide as well as October 7 attack.  Israeli Snipers Routinely, Deliberately Shoot Palestinian Kids In The Head.  As Israel Extends Its Genocide Into the West Bank, It Targets and Kills Children. Patrick Lawrence: Truths That Come Out Like the Sun.
ECONOMICS. Rolls-Royce mini nuke arm posts wider £78mln loss. Rolls-Royce suffers £78m loss on mini-nukes amid UK rollout delays. EDF Seeks to Raise Up to £4 Billion to Help Fund Construction of UK’s Hinkley Nuclear Plant.
EDF reportedly seeking up to £4bn from investors to finish Hinkley Point C.
EDUCATION. Financing new nuclear. Governments paying the price?- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2024/10/12/1-b1-financing-new-nuclear-governments-paying-the-price/

 Nuclear lobby takes over tertiary education, with blatant lies about “clean” “green” nuclear.
ENERGY. Nuclear – not the way ahead.
Renewables based systems are reducing blackouts in UK and USA!
China to head green energy boom with 60% of new projects in next six years.
Japan PM Ishiba eyes more renewables, less nuclear in energy mix.
ENVIRONMENT. Farmers warn over Hinkley Point C’s saltmarsh plan. EDF bosses grilled over River Severn salt marsh plans at ‘prickly’ meeting. Nuclear plant ‘will decimate fish stocks’.
LEGAL. Are DOE and NNSA Complying with the National Environmental Policy Act?.
MEDIA. “The First Live-Streamed Genocide”: Al Jazeera Exposes War Crimes Filmed by Israeli Troops Themselves.US-Backed Israeli Military Forces Have Executed Numerous Journalists Since October 7.

Brutal lessons of 1984 nuclear bomb drama Threads. BBC viewers urge everyone to watch ‘bleak’ war film that has only ever been shown four times. “Threads” brings nuclear war fears to a new audience. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgT4Y30DkaA&t=11s
OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Planned nuclear plant in a Kenyan top tourist hub and home to endangered species sparks protest. Nuclear power stations are neither wanted nor needed in Scotland.
PEACE. UK and Ireland partners congratulate 2024 Nobel Peace Prize winner.
PERSONAL STORIES. Palestine Talks | Medea Benjamin ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB_OxrjJsRA)
POLITICS. As Milton bears down on Floridians, Joe and Bibi bear down on Iranians. Israeli Protesters Call for Ceasefire in Anti-War Demonstrations – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGw3XTLhIpk.

Kamala Harris’ foreign policy agenda music to war party, anathema to swing state voters.

Hinkley Point C saltmarsh plans ‘a disaster‘, say MPs.
POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. Biden Officials Say Ceasefire Talks Are Suspended as Harris Names Iran Top Enemy. Biden Allowing Israel to March US Into War With Iran. 
IAEA Missing in action, on Israeli nuclear strike threats, Iranian outlet argues.

NATO state’s PM pledges to block Ukrainian membership.
SAFETY. Canada’s false ‘solution’ for used nuclear fuel waste. Canada’s nuclear watchdog green-lights operation of aging Pickering reactors to 2026 – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/?s=Canada%E2%80%99s+nuclear+watchdog+green-lights

Ukraine wants UN nuclear watchdog to place foreign observers near all its nuclear plants.
SECRETS and LIES. Is This The Last October 7 Where We’ll Be Able To Speak The Truth?Fulsome bribery to communities – from Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO).
SPINBUSTER. Sellafield’s “Social Impact Multiplied” Wins Greenwash Award for “The Edge” Water Sports Centre in Contaminated Harbour.
TECHNOLOGY. On Army bases, nuclear energy can’t add resilience, just costs and risks.
URANIUM. DoE awards next-gen nuclear fuel contracts backwards.
WASTES. Securing a nuclear waste disposal site for the future. A desire to leave not a ‘compelling need’ under nuke dump compo scheme say Nuclear Waste Services.
WAR and CONFLICT. Slaughter In Gaza And Lebanon As War With Iran Approaches. Report: US Considers Launching Airstrikes Against Iran To Support Israeli Attack.
Carnegie nuclear expert James Acton explains why it would be counterproductive for Israel to attack Iran’s nuclear program.Israel may attack Iran’s nuclear sites to target weapons: See map. 
Blinken approved Israeli attacks on Gaza aid convoys: Report. “Greater Israel:” Cabinet Minister Plots Seizure of Territory from 6 Neighbors, including Lebanon.

‘Russia doesn’t want to use nuclear weapons’: The view from wartime Moscow.
WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. US arms dealers witness ‘record profits’ from Israel’s year-long genocide in Gaza, war on Lebanon.
US’ next-gen nuclear submarines suffer delay with costs soaring past $130 billion.
Could small modular reactors be used to create nuclear warheads?.

October 15, 2024 Posted by | Christina's notes | Leave a comment

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