Wrap up of week’s nuclear news
CLIMATE. May Marks 8th Consecutive Record Hot Month in NASA’s Global Temperature Measure. Dozens of USA climate denial groups funded by biggest US coal company. Parts of Philippines May Submerge Due to Global Warming.
NUCLEAR. Nuclear disasters and “normalization” of contaminated areas
UKRAINE‘s very dangerous nuclear waste storage situation. The media ignored the fiasco of AREVA’s nuclear waste storage facility at Chernobyl.
INDIA. Nuclear marketers see India as a saviour of nuclear industry.
USA.
- Orlando gunman a security guard, for a firm that guards US nuclear sites.
- Donald Trump’s strange nuclear negotiating ideas.
- Former NATO Commander calls for nuclear negotiations with Russia.
- US Congress only just failed to pass law to defund a new nuclear cruise missile program.
- Watts Bar-2 nuclear reactor – 43 years to build – shut down after 2 days.
- Fort Calhoun nuclear plant too expensive to run.
- Entergy’s Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station – decrepit facility with radioactive waste problem.
- USA’s Pro Nuclear Energy Secretary Moniz announces $82 Million for Nuclear Energy Research.
- U.S. Court of Appeals rules nuclear waste can stay on indigenous land.
JAPAN. Fukushima: 173 Children Thyroid Cancers in Fukushima Prefecture Another evacuation order lifted. Tepco chief likely banned use of ‘meltdown’ under government pressure: report. Tepco to inject cement instead of frozen water wall. Japan report on Chernobyl disaster’s health effects to be publicly released.
SOUTH KOREA‘s nuclear waste dilemma: will have to build waste dump
RUSSIA. Government Against Rights Groups (Includes Environmental Groups). Russia’s powerful new nuclear icebreaker.
TAIWAN’s nuclear waste problem – sees overseas reprocessing as the answer.
IRAN. US agencies and prosecutors influence Europe’s banks to impede Iran nuclear deal. Time that USA government backed its Iran nuclear deal and promoted investment.
KUWAIT. Kuwaitis (KIA) Want Out of French State Owned Nuclear Group Areva
In brief – Nuclear News This Week
USA.
- EPA PROPOSES SHOCKING THOUSAND-FOLD INCREASE IN RADIOACTIVITY ALLOWED IN DRINKING WATER.
- 6 USA nuclear stations to have guards with assault rifles.
- Donald Trump Can’t Be Trusted with America’s Nuclear Weapons Codes.
- Scientists, city leaders, local community warn against burial of nuclear waste near San Onofre State Beach.
- Rockland County Lawmakers Want Shutdown of Dangerous Indian Point Nuclear Station.
- “New Nuclear” lobbyists want changed regulations and more tax-payer funding.
- Exelon reactor closures show how the nuclear rot is really settling in for America. Exelon wants license to operate nuclear plant for 80 years.
- USA tries to bend the rules, so Toshiba-Westinghouse can sell nuclear reactors to India.
EUROPE. Heightened threat of a nuclear terror attack. Rising number of thyroid cancers beyond Ukraine, linked to Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Increasing illness among US sailors exposed to radiation near Fukushima.
FINLAND . Finland’s Fennovoima nuclear station dependent on Russia for all the finance
BIKINI ATOLL Alarmingly high levels of radiation remain
JAPAN. In Japan, nuclear advertising is back, and journalists are intimidated. . Fukushima medical survey confirms 14 new child thyroid cancer cases.
TAIWAN environmentalists take legal action against nuclear restart.
RUSSIA. Russia’s Rosatom keenly marketing nuclear power to Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos. There’s heap of articles like this one. Russia is marketing its nukes everywhere!
Nuclear news to 4th June
Our only hope against nuclear pollution and annihilation – an informed citizenry.
Probability of a big nuclear accident within the next 10 years.
NUCLEAR MARKETING. Russia moving in on America as a market for its nuclear fuel. China, South Korea and Russia battle to win Kenya as nuclear customer. USA’s Westinghouse in rush to sell nuclear reactors to India. Russia and China working together to market nuclear reactors to the world. Russia flogging nuclear to Nigeria. And to Bolivia. China’s plans for marketing floating nuclear power plants (- but major risks, good terrorism targets)
USA.
- Trump is too dangerous and unstable to have the nuclear codes – says Hillary Clinton.
- “Just Mums” have become a powerful lobbying force for action on radioactive wastes.
- You think the oil industry’s in trouble? Try nuclear!. Up to 20 USA uneconomic nuclear stations soon to close. Nuclear stations more at risk than Regulators say.
- New York: opposition to subsidies for nuclear power stations.
- Seattle City Council calls for replacing nuclear power with renewable energy.
- Exelon’s 2 nuclear plants nearly dead, but not quite. Exelon gets employees to lobby for nuclear subsidies.
- Florida consumers still being slugged unfairly for Turkey Point delayed nuclear expansion.
- Michael Mariotte exposes pro nuclear “environmentalists” Hansen and Shellenberger. Sad loss of a man of integrity – Michael Mariotte.
UK. Secrecy over nuclear waste plans regarding EDF’s Hinkley Point deal. Nuclear safety experts are calling for households in the UK to be supplied with anti-radiation pills
UKRAINE . Cuts Russia Out Of Plans To Build Nuclear Reactors. Russia halts nuclear waste disposal from Ukraine.
SOUTH AFRICA. Let’s not forget the nuclear corruption in South Africa
NORTH KOREA Ballistic missile launch fails for the fourth time in recent months, South Korea says.
TAIWAN Reports 7.2 M Offshore Earthquake. Taiwan definitely to abandon nuclear power.
INDIA. Indian company exits nuclear project, switches to wind energy.
CHILE producing too much solar energy.
High time the media stopped the lie about nuclear energy being “clean”
It’s high time that the media came clean about nuclear energy being supposedly “clean”. Nuclear proponents were hand in glove with the coal and oil interests for decades – denying global warming. They’re still hand in glove, helping those dirty industries keep going until aven dirtier nuclear takes over.
Decline of US nuclear industry is accelerating “…..Over the past few years, US companies have closed or announced plans to close eight reactors with a combined capacity of 6300 MW. Fertel claimed that another 15 to 20 plants are at risk of closure over the next 5 to 10 years. ……
Climate, nuclear news to 28 May
Investigative journalism lives! This one is brilliant. NBC4 is revealing LA’s Nuclear Secret – investigative journalism spells it out
CLIMATE Drastic impact of climate change: NASA shows these effects. Climate change leading to mass migration crises if world does not act. Donald Trump will pull the US out of the UN global climate accord, push coal, oil. Canadian wildfires – huge release of carbon to the atmosphere. New Tar Sands Impact on Climate, Air Quality Found. ExxonMobil must be made accountable for their climate change deception.
NUCLEAR
Outcome of United Nations open-ended working group on nuclear disarmament.
Nuclear marketing propaganda abounds: USA desperately wants to market nuclear power to India, China – to Sudan, USA – to Vietnam, USA and Japan – to North Wales, UK , Russia- to Vietnam , Russia – to South East Asia, Russia– to Iran, Russia – to Africa
USA Despite Obama’s calls for nuclear disarmament, U.S. disarmament is slowest since 1980. Obama meets Hiroshima survivors, calls for a ‘Moral Revolution’ for nuclear disarmament. Hiroshima survivors tell of that day on 6th August 1945. The USA Pentagon’s budget labyrinth for a planned $1 trillion splurge.
- NBC4 is revealing LA’s Nuclear Secret – investigative journalism spells it out.
- USA using Westinghouse nuclear reactors and fuel to compete with Russia for European dominance.
- Illinois Attorney General slams nuclear bailout legislation. Exelon and its allies rally for a bailout of nuclear power, despite its known dangers.
- Change the word “renewable” to “clean” – Exelon’s plan to get taxpayer money for nuclear power.
- Nuclear energy has no place in New York State renewable energy plan.
- America’s NRC changing nuclear fee structure to help Small Nuclear reactors: Shillenberger delighted.
- Californians want to palm off their nuclear waste problem onto Texas.
- Former radioactive waste workers take legal action over their radiation caused illnesses.
- After 26 year battle for justice, Rocky Flats residents get some kind of deal from nuclear weapons plant operators.
- Death of long-term and highly respected anti nuclear activist Michael Mariotte.
CHINA readies nuclear armed submarines for the Pacific.
JAPAN. Japanese government to announce a shift away from nuclear power? Low-level nuclear waste to be buried 70 meters underground. Tokyo Accused of Cooking Fukushima Radiation Data. Fukushima clean-up chief still hunting for 600 tonnes of melted radioactive fuel.
CANADA. Canada’s wildfires – surrounding a radioactive trash site. Canadian nuclear company SNC-Lavalin Named In Panama Papers.
GERMANY. German State close to Belgium prepares iodine tablets, in concern about neighbouring nuclear stations. LITHUANIA, and environmentalists not happy with Belarus’ nuclear power plan
SWEDEN heads for 100% renewable energy
SOUTH AFRICA . Political scandal hangs over South Africa’s nuclear energy plans. Nuclear programme could set south Africa back trillions of rand.
UK. Hinkley nuclear project’s future is in doubt – French unions not happy with Hinkley plan. UK designs for more beautiful nuclear reactors.
IRAN. UN Agency Reports Iran Has Complied With Nuclear Deal.
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES setting a solar power trend in the Gulf.
Climate and Nuclear News This Week
CLIMATE CHANGE. NASA – World Just Had Seven Months Straight of Record-Shattering Global Heat. World Bank warns on the growing dangers of climate change. Climate change exacerbates wildfires – Canada’s tragedy. Women head UN climate change body/
Noam Chomsky on the twin threats: Climate Change and Nuclear Proliferation.
NUCLEAR Uranium industry finally acknowledging its dire situation. International Atomic Energy Agency keen to teach kids how great is the nuclear industry.
USA.
- True costs of nuclear-generated electricity hidden for decades.
- ‘Generation IV’ nuclear companies desperate for tax-payers’ money.
- USA House and Senate committees approve bills favouring “new nuclear” companies.
- America’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission set to exempt nuclear corporations from safety costs and liabilities.
- Former Prime Minister Koizumi backs U.S. sailors suing over Fukushima radiation.
- Fears that South Carolina is to become a nuclear waste import hub.
- Protestors demand shut-down of radiation leaky Florida Nuclear Station.
- Growing opposition in both Canada and USA to nuclear waste dumping near the Great Lakes.
FRANCE. Sparks flew at Electricite de France’s AGM: EDF has €37 billion of debt. EDF hoping to extend life of nuclear reactors, postpone decommisson costs. Credibility of nuclear corporation EDF taking a beating over Hinkley Nuclear project shemozzle. French prosecutors launch probe into Tokyo’s 2020 Olympic bid.
UK. How Margaret Thatcher’s nuclear dream has turned into UK’s Hinkley nightmare. Genetic damage in children of nuclear test veterans: an investigation begins. Former AREVA CEO ‘Atomic Anne’ Lauvergeon under a cloud at Rio Tinto. Greens Urge Ireland to Insist on Hinkley Nuclear Power Consultation Following UNESC Ruling.
JAPAN. Japanese cities say ‘no’ to nuke restart. Mayor blasts nuclear power to students visiting from Taiwan. FUKUSHIMA: No one knows where the Fukushima nuclear reactor melted cores are. Tepco to put some Fukushima decommissioning work on hold during G-7 summit. School to close in Fukushima as too few children able to attend.
RUSSIA plans for Africa to be its nuclear colony, starting with south Africa. Russia joins the throng desperate to sell nuclear radioactive trash to Britain.
CANADA. Indigenous residents of Yellowknif, Canada, send Terrestrial Energy nuclear salesmen packing.
CHINA. Chinese nuclear companies planning to carve up nuclear exports between each other.
ARMENIA. Nuclear danger in Armenia.
INDIA. to sell nuclear reactors to Bangladesh (But what if Bangladesh is under water before long?)
PAKISTAN wants to join the Nuclear Suppliers Group.
GERMANY Adolf Hitler’s secret NUCLEAR BOMBS found – claims engineer
100% renewable energy powers Portugal for four days. Revolutionary solar power: London Borough’s solar panels over marketplace. Berkely Lab finds that Solar Power brings Environmental and Public Health Benefits.
The news – nuclear and climate change
Significant comprehensive story of the week – Koch brothers and power utilities connive to stop solar power.
CLIMATE. Still possible to avert global climate change disaster – UN climate chief. Canada’s wildfire horror – Climate Change is part of the cause. Canadian wildfire approaches oil sands project. Koch brothers and power utilities connive to stop solar power. Exxon fighting to the death with its fraudulent claims about climate change.
Even the nuclear industry knows that it’s in a desperate fight for survival.
Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material strengthens nuclear security.
USA.
- President Obama visits Hiroshima, as USA builds up its nuclear arsenal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJBtq0jq43c.
- USA’s missile defense site in Romania provokes Russian anger.
- US lawmakers concerned about possible drone attacks on nuclear facilities.
- The 1964 nuclear bomb exploded in South Mississippi – and its effects.
- Unfolding nuclear waste disasters in America.
- Government -run Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to sell Alabama Nuclear Complex at a big loss.
- Fort Calhoun nuclear plant no longer makes financial sense – CEO.
RUSSIA. Russia’s new more powerful nuclear missiles
UK. Britain failed to consult Europe over Hinkley nuclear safety dangers – UN. UN Finds the UK in Violation of Transboundary Environmental Impact Convention for Hinkley Point Nuclear Power station; Europe at Risk. £21bn the likely cost of ever more expensive Hinkley Point nuclear power.
FRANCE. Nuclear corporation EDF’s Annual General Meeting faces more financial gloom.
JAPAN. 40-year-old Shikoku reactor to be sixth unit scrapped under stricter safety regimen.
ISRAEL. Nuclear Whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu – indicted yet again!
The week that was, in climate and nuclear news
CLIMATE CHANGE disruption – the future is happening now. Destructive Wildfire near Canada’s Oil Sands May Have Been Fueled by Global Warming. Climate change is taking its toll on water supplies, and especially – on children. Month after month, global average temperatures reach record heights. Ocean’s small shelled animals suffering from acidification due to global warming.
Children Suffer Nuclear Impact Worldwide.
Leaked TTIP documents cast doubt on EU-US trade deal.
USA.
- Exelon nuclear corporation demands tax-payer bailout for its uneconomic power plants.
- Continuing nuclear waste leak at Hanford.
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission to re-analyse costs of potential impact of severe accident At Indian Point.
- Documents reveal poor performance of Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility (MOX).
- Respiratory diseases, radioactive fumes – concerns in St Louis County, USA.
- Radiation from Santa Susana Field Laboratory in California causing cancers, but this is hushed up.
- Parents near nuclear plant concerned about evacuation plans.
- Sanders and Clinton split on future of Indian Point nuclear station.
- USA’s Energy Dept program ‘Orange Button’ will bring down costs of solar power.
UK. Global danger in transporting nuclear wastes by plane.
CANADA. Cameco cuts back on mining uranium, as market stays slumped.
Former Electricite de France SA Chief Financial Officer says he quit because of financial risks of Hinkley nuclear project. UK nuclear parts made at French plant in fakery probe. ‘400 irregularities’ in nuclear power plant parts – admits France’s nuclear firm AREVA.
OCEANIA. Nuclear shipwreck still highly radioactive over 60 years later.
JAPAN. Fukushima and the Right NOT to Return: Nuclear Displacement in a System for “Hometown Recovery”
NORTH KOREA. North Korea’s nuclear program.
1 May: nuclear news for the past week
Late news flashes:
- Australia’s submarine purchase from France in cahoots with nuclear lobby‘s plan for expansion of nuclear industry, Australia as world’s nuclear trash dump, to be announced on May 6 by the sham South Australia Nuclear Fuel Chain Royal Commission.
- The seller, France’s corporation Direction des Constructions et Armes Navales (DCNS) is notorious for corruption.
Most impressive news item of the week – Central bankers, financial facts, bringing an end to the nuclear power era?
NUCLEAR
The next nuclear disaster will probably be an intentional one.
Concern over influence on World Health Organisationby outside agencies, with financial support
UKRAINE. Ukraine’s nuclear industry remains a time bomb. The real menace of the Chernobyl nuclear situation. Mikhail Gorbachev: 30 years after Chernobyl, time to phase out nuclear power. Covering shattered Chernobyl nuclear reactor – a financial problem for Ukraine. Over 2 million people receiving benefits due to radiation effects of Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
At Chernobyl and Fukushima, radioactivity hasseriously harmed wildlife. Thyroid Cancer in Fukushima Children: When the Language and Information Gaps Mislead. Indoor playgrounds help Fukushima families to deal with their very real fear of radiation.
JAPAN. Series of earthquakes is delaying Japan’s ‘nuclear revival’. Toshiba to lose 260 billion yen due tolosses over Westinghouse nuclear power subsidiary. Fukushima plant’s new ice wall not watertight.
USA.
- A second double-shell tank leaking radiation at Hanford?
- Idaho in danger from nuclear waste, and must be protected.
- California State Senate demands removal of stored nuclear waste from San Onofre power plant.
- US Senate Efforts to Do Away with Mandatory Licensing Hearings for So-Called Advanced Nuclear Reactors-Small Modular Reactors. US Senate Bill 2795 on Deregulation of the Nuclear Industry.
UK and FRANCE. So-called “charity” nuclear front, Alvin Weinberg Foundation, group lobbies UK govt to fund Small Nuclear Reactors. Westinghouse keen to fleece UK tax-payers with Small Modular Nuclear Reactors.
France’s government says decision on Hinkley nuclear plant is again delayed. European law means it is illegal for France’s govt to fund EDF’s British Hinkley nuclear project. France’s tax-payers give €3bn to save debt-ridden nuclear corporation EDF.
GERMANY’s compromise plan to make power companies pay for nuclear waste disposal. Germany wrestles with the dilemma of disposing of dead nuclear reactors and their toxic wastes. Computer viruses have infected German nuclear power station.
BELGIUM Most of Belgium’s population to be given potassium iodide pills.
SWEDEN Vattenhall nuclear corporation in financial trouble, opposes nuclear risk premium, seeks to abolish Swedish tax.
CLIMATE. USA Republicans – half of them accept the science of climate change. Austria losing to climate change its most precious environmental resource – glaciers. Climate Feedback helps climate scientists toevaluate media stories.
RENEWABLE ENERGY A solar-powered flight across the Pacific – the Solar Impulse 2 arrives in California. USA Republicans now liking renewable energy – for financial, not climate, reasons. USA wind energy investment – over $128 Billion. Denmark’s solar energy growth – way ahead of schedule.
Australia to follow Britain into an even worse nuclear deal with France
A year ago, the nuclear lobby managed to get a spurious Nuclear Royal Commission going in Australia. Stacked with pro nuclear enthusiasts, this Commission spent a heap of tax-payer money touring global nuclear companies. They especially spent time in France.
On May 6th, the Commission will announce its findings, (already decided upon at the beginning). This will be that the State of South Australia should set up the full nuclear fuel chain, but starting with importing the world’s radioactive trash, (In Australia, hardly anyone knows about this, as it has been kept as a matter for just one State, and not publicised nationally.
NOW, by a ?strange coincidence, Australia has decided to buy, at huge expense, nuclear submarines from France. They will be fuelled by diesel, not nuclear, – but the switch to nuclear can be made later, when Australia’s inconvenient anti nuclear laws have been overturned.
Just when the UK has got itself locked into a very dubious nuclear deal with France, Australia is about to do an even worse one.
“The company involved , the Direction des Constructions et Armes Navales, now partly privatised and named DCNS, is a lady with a shady past,
Climate and Nuclear News This week
CLIMATE. Paris climate negotiations ahead of schedule. World powers worried at effects of climate change, drought, causing conflicts. UN study of cap at 1.5 degrees Celsius – it may not be feasible. Hillary Clinton unsuited to task of confronting climate change, too enmeshed in corporate thinking. New campaign ‘Two Degrees of Change’ urges female executives to demand action on climate change. Rapid collapse of ice shelves in Antarctica. Sea level rise has been underestimated – new ice studies suggest. Warm, Southerly Winds Gust to Hurricane Force Over Greenland in Staggering Early Season Heatwave — Temperatures Now Hitting up to 41 Degrees (F) Above Average at Summit
Widespread support for Church of England’s stand against Exxon Mobil. Religious groups urge US lawmakers to approve funding for Green Climate Fund (GCF). Climate Change Threatening Mt Everest. Climate change affecting India: Severe Drought, Water Shortages In Australia, and everywhere else, oil and gas lobbies pay shills to obstruct action on climate change. Big Oil spends up Big to thwart climate change action.
RENEWABLE ENERGY. Global renewable energy boom, with Asia Pacific at the heart of it.
EDF in America going for wind power, abandoning nuclear. Wind power in America in a big way, and transmission grid development. Wind power – the big buy-up by big companies. Jobs boom in USA States with wind power development. India: Gujarat’s government increases solar energy incentives, with rooftop subsidy.
NUCLEAR.
WORLD. Russian naval officer who saved the world from nuclear war.
Statistical analysis indicates that we can expect more severe nuclear accidents. Nuclear industry up to their old tricks, spruiking “new nuclear“. $Billions being spent on research for Small Modular Nuclear Reactors, that are unlikely to be viable. Allison MacFarlane on nuclear safety.
JAPAN. Just 74 miles from Sendai nuclear station, strong earthquake hits Japan. Under the radar. Japan’s nuclear development pushed along by USA think tank, a nuclear front– Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Bribery allegations result in resignation of Japanese economy minister Akira Amari. The TPP was negotiated in secret, and now one of the chief negotiators is accused of taking bribes.
Fukushima – the irradiation of a nation. Fukushima’s evacuees have radiation-caused illnesses, but this is covered up in Japan. Braving danger and radiation for chance to earn 11,000 yen a day. Cheated every step of the way: a raw deal from subcontractors. Radioactive wild boars rampaging around Fukushima nuclear site.
EUROPE.German nuclear centre a target for Paris terrorist?. According to German intelligence, terrorist Salah Abdeslam did not have German nuclear files. In Europe, nuclear industry needs EUR 450 billion to survive. Luxembourg would pay France to shut down all too near nuclear power station. Dangerous state of aging nuclear reactors in Ukraine.
USA
- Hillary Clinton calls Donald Trump “reckless” on nuclear policy.
- Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) still not open, and USA’s toxic nuclear waste mounts. Expanded nuclear waste role for USA’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. USA Energy Dept moving away from dangerous MOX nuclear fuel plan.
- Plymouth needs an unbiased Nuclear Committee to advise on decommissioning Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station. Pilgrim nuclear power plant not to close until 2019.
- Holtec nuclear waste company gets special safety exemptions!
- American nuclear engineer arrested for allegedly secretly helping China’s nuclear program.
UK vulnerable to cyberattack if planned nuclear deal with China goes ahead.
IRAQ. Radiation effects of depleted uranium continue to bring disease and death in Iraq.
Global nuclear lobby escalating spin, in mainstream and in social media
With the continuing worldwide success of renewable energy, the nuclear lobby’s in a bit of a tizz – doing their best to win hearts and minds with some slick articles in mainstream media, touting nuclear as cure for climate change, spruiking small nukes, and downplaying radiation effects of Fukushima nuclear disaster.
However, the nuclear industry is also now redoubling their efforts on social media, as they’ve discovered all the possibilities of Twitter, Facebook etc:
“Social media channels, like Facebook and Twitter, can be an opportunity for us to listen and engage on energy issues and EDF Energy has created digital tools based on the same principle as its physical visitor centres. These tools have been viewed over 1.3 million times,” “As an industry we must harness the power of social media to broaden understanding of what we do” This is a vital part of gaining and maintaining public trust.” – WNA 14/04/16
We can be confident that those digital tools include not only real lobbyists’ messages, but autobots set to swamp social media with pro nuclear spin, and triggered to respond to any messages critical of the industry
The World Nuclear Association obviously is well aware of the statistical liklelihood of a serious nuclear accident within the next few decades. They’re priming the nuclear lobbyists up to keep the propaganda well and truly going, in advance of that nuc lear accident.
“If an accident occurs, there will be many voices seeking to be heard and media channels will want to use the information sources they know and trust. And trust has to be gained before an event” WNA 14/04/16
11 April: the week in climate, nuclear and corruption news
This week, I stray even further away from the narrow focus on things nuclear. It’s impossible not to notice the achievements of investigative reporters, collaborating across the globe, to reveal widespread corruption in the oil industry, and in the finance industry. In both cases, hundreds of journalists worked for a year in bringing these facts together. I’m glad I’ve been watching the BBC series John le Carre’s “The Night Manager” – helped me to understand how corruption works, including legalised corruption. But I digress even worse.
There’s another massive global corruption going on, and this is the corruption of science. Our grandchildren and great grandchildren will have cause to blame us, as governments, industries, media, join in complacency, or even downright denial, of the reality of anthropogenic climate change. A major source of information on climate change is ra ra at http://www.ecoshock.org/ – where you will learn that that there really is no time to lose: climate change may be happening faster than we all thought.
Equally important, but “under the radar”, is corruption in the nuclear industry. That hasn’t been investigated yet, but are we to believe that the nuclear industry is squeaky clean? At least two aspects of science corruption are lies promoted by the industry – the lie that nuclear power will save the climate, and the lie that low dose ionising radiation is harmless, even good for you. I suspect that there is more to come.
CLIMATE CHANGE – happening faster than we expected.
Surprise surprise ! The UNAOIL and the Panama corruption crises are interlocked.
IN BRIEF.
- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists analyses outcome of The Nuclear Security Summit.
- Renewable energy and new technologies undercutting price of nuclear power.
- Self styled “Pro Nuclear Environmentalists (PNEs) are just not credible on Chernobyl radiation.
- France suggests UK’s Hinkley Point nuclear project could still be postponed.
- Nuclear confidence trick: the ‘swap’ of UK’s nuclear wastes for ‘medical isotopes’. UK sending nuclear wastes to America – dangerous and unwise.
Nuclear confidence trick: the ‘swap’ of UK’s nuclear wastes for ‘medical isotopes’
This transfer of wastes to USA is such a con job. It’s portrayed as a “win win”. What a lie!
First of all, medical radioisotopes can be obtained without use of nuclear reactor, as Canada is now doing. By use of non nuclear cyclotrons – linear accelerators, these radioisotopes (most being very short-lived) can be made close to the point of use – a much more practical system.
Second, the whole transport idea is bizarrely unsafe – passing through or over communities, waterways – risk of accident, of terrorism.
Thirdly, it is madness to set up this “exchange” plan, in order to prolong this noxious industry, and with that silly figleaf of nuclear medicine tacked on top of it. Blind Freddy could see that the number one priority is to stop making radioactive trash
The past week in nuclear and climate news
It’s getting harder, and more ridiculous, to separate nuclear issues from fossil fuel issues. Nuclear and coal power are really intertwined, indeed depending on each other, and both contributing to global warming.
And now there’s the global oil corruption scandal, which really can’t be ignored.
NUCLEAR SECURITY SUMMIT Four dangers overlooked . Absence of Russia at nuclear security summit. US and UK to do cyber attack tests on a nuclear power plant.
CLIMATE and ENERGY By 2018 world must shift to zero carbon, to avoid extra dangerous global warming. USA and China – joint statement: both will sign Paris climate deal. Rockefeller to ditch oil, gas, holdings on ethical and economic grounds: criticises Exxon Mobil Clean coal” technology is not working. Renewable energy taking overthe world- already. Report: Clean Energy Economy Employs More than 2.5 Million Americans, Poised for More Growth.
Global Marketing frenzy to sell nuclear reactors to the Middle East.
UK.
- Terrorism threat to Britain’s nuclear facilities is increasing – warns Nuclear Regulator. Transatlantic flights with nuclear waste cargo – an unacceptable danger.
- Chinese nuclear corporation decides not to get involved in UK’s dubious Hinkley nuclear project. Further doubt on future of Hinkley Point nuclear project, as costs rise again. EDF senior engineers call for delay in UK Hinkley nuclear power development.
- British churches going green, going for renewable energy.
- Britain now boasts world’s largest floating solar energy farm.
USA.
Donald Trump would contemplate dropping nuclear bomb on Europe. White House says Donald Trump’s nuclear policy is ‘catastrophic’. Donald Trump and Ted Cruz agree on undoing Obama’s climate action work.
The coming wave of shutdowns of old nuclear reactors in America. Troubled history of New York’s Indian Point nuclear power station. Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station desperate for money: call for taxpayer funding.
North Dakota rejects plan for experimental deep borehole (preliminary test for nuclear waste disposal) Radiation in seafood. Is that why California bans commercial crab fishing?
Community solar power now getting the backing of energy utilities.
BELGIUM. All about the terrorists’ plan to attack Belgium’s nuclear power station
CHINA is building a national electricity grid. And “China pushes for mandatory integration of renewable power. Co-operation on super grid – China, Pakistan, South Korea. Global electricity network – China’s plan.
RUSSIA building new multiple-warhead nuclear missiles.
JAPAN journalists under pressure from government. “
- City” of Waste: Fukushima Cleanup Now Up to 10.7 Million 1-ton Bags of Radioactive Waste.
- Multiple rivers in Fukushima Prefecture have radioactive sediments.
- Tepco starts freezing soil around Fukushima plant reactors Ice wall at Fukushima plant switched on, but will it work?
- Public-private council launched to turn Fukushima into green energy hub.
AFRICA. New proof that South Africa planned a binding nuclear deal with Russia.
INDIA. Rural Indians’ lawsuit against coal power plant is dismissed by USA judge.
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