Nuclear news this week
Investigative journalism lives! In this media climate of the 24 hr news cycle, and of journalists losing their jobs – it can still happen! This week:
McClatchy News Service’s Washington Bureau’s Rob Hotakainen, Lindsay Wise, Frank Matt and Samantha Ehlinger spent a year, over 100 interviews across USA, and analysing over 70 million records in a federal database obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, for this story:
At least 33,480 American nuclear workers dead from radiation-caused illness
The Center For Public Integrity’s India’s nuclear industry pours its wastes into a river of death and disease, and also India’s repression of activists who protest about its poor safety record.
The mind boggles – in reading about America’s sick nuclear workers – to think what the situation might be in Russia, or China, where no investigative journalist would get a chance to study and publicise it!
Study: Environmental Exposures Account for Vast Majority of Cancers.
Global trend towards bankruptcy for the nuclear industry.
CLIMATE. The Paris Agreement on climate — a good start, but… SO FAR, nuclear lobbyists have not managed to hijack climate action funding. Nuclear lobby in frantic mode at Paris Climate Summit. The new climate denialism – that renewable energy “doesn’t work”. Sea level rise threatens nuclear stations and nuclear waste dumps. Corporate Astroturf “Nuclear for Climate” is really a lobby group of 140 pro nuclear societies. USA govt’s Mission Innovation should not send tax-payer money to Bill Gates’ nuclear dream.
GERMANY abandoning nuclear fission, but has developed research nuclear fusion reactor. Belgium’s nuclear restart causes anxiety in adjacent North Rhine-Westphalia.
USA. Former Clinton Defense Secretary offers dire warning on nuclear war risk. Donald Trump shows abysmal ignorance about USA’s nuclear weapons. Endless delays – that’s the system for Hanford nuclear waste clean-up. Nuclear Regulatory Commission: obfuscation when it comes to Freedom of Information. Gloomy prediction for USA’s nuclear industry. Strong wind power takes over New York’s electricity as nuclear station shut down. New York Governor Cuomoorders investigation of Indian Point Nuclear Station. Dangers of USNRC Approval of Broken Nuclear Spent Fuel Rod Storage
Kansas’ nuclear workers with cancer from exposure to radiation. Idaho nuclear workers: 360 killed by by exposure to radiation. Texas nuclear workers sick and dying from exposure to radiation. Mississipi nuclear workers victims of radiation Huge increase in medical insurance claims by nuclear workers.
INDIA‘s secret nuclear weapons building city. Japan-India nuclear deal sounds good, but not likely in practice.
JAPAN. Declassified report shows Fukushima nuclear situation much worse than we were told. Enormous increase inradiation levels in Fukushima underground ducts. High level nuclear waste into the ocean: Japanese govt’s latest idea. Cover-up of radiation effects makes Fukushima victims’ lives even worse.
UKRAINE troubles continue with the toxic Chernobyl site
UK Tax-payer funding to go to Britain’s small nuclear reactor companies! Toshiba’s financial travails threaten UK’s nuclear power plans. Britain’s heavy burden – its Trident nuclear programme.
IRAN IAEA concludes its probe in Iran’s history of nuclear weapons research
RUSSIA Missing highly enriched uranium canisters probably came from Mayak nuclear facility
CHINA Concerns about China’s nuclear technology: is it safe?
December 11 Climate and Nuclear News
PARIS CLIMATE CHANGE SUMMIT to miss Friday deadline. Climate deal due Saturday after more all-night talks.Some optimism . Many articles on climate change. Cities the key to action. Paris COP21 anti-nuclear activists arrested after daring climb on Arche de la Defense. Climate refugees will be needing help, whether or not COP21 talks produce a result.
Bill Gates, Peter Thiel, Breakthrough Institute etc – more like snake oil salesmen for nuclear. Breakthrough Energy Coalition and Mission Innovation – all for pie in the sky new nuclear, carbon capture, nuclear fusion etc. Seven top billionaires in Breakthrough Energy Coalition are big investors in the nuclear industry, and most members are nuclear enthusiasts. However, the good news so far is that nuclear is not even mentioned in the drafts of the climate agreement presented over the last several days. Organisers at COP21 dismiss nuclear, in favour of faster, cleaner, cheaper, renewable technologies.
NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT. 166 nations vote to abolish nuclear weapons, but not Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States.
NUCLEAR FUSION. At least 50 years before nuclear fusion power might become a reality
UK. Britain’s nuclear power programme a cash cow for overseas companies. Toshiba having problems getting money to build UK nuclear power project. Floods in West Cumbria threaten nuclear installations.
USA Dr Ken Buesseler reports cesium-134 from Fukushima in ocean waters off North America shores. Nuclear Free US Presidential Candidates Sanders and Comley. 10 Control Rods accidentally dropped into nuclear reactor core – Indian Point. The nuclear industry’s plight – the COSTS OF RADIOACTIVE TRASH DISPOSAL. Still secret: where are the radioactive hot spots near Coldwater Creek, St Louis County?.
JAPAN. Time to Stop Nursing the Nuclear Power Industry. Japan’s nuclear regulatory body investigating spent nuclear fuel containers. Monju fast breeder reactor – a failure that’s damaging France’s and Japan’s nuclear industry.
CHINA China’s awful safety record does not augur well for its planned nuclear project. China’s nuclear programme isfraught with problems.
INDIA. India’s Bhopal gas victims call on PM Modi to shun nuclear power industry.
VIETNAM postpones construction of Russian -funded nuclear plant.
RUSSIA trying to sell to Egypt nuclear reactors with 80 year operation. Putin ‘didn’t rule out’ using nuclear weapons in Syria.
The Week in Nuclear and Climate News
COP21 Bill Gates leads nuclear industry’s publicity drive at COP21. I smell a Breakthrough Energy Coalition nuclear rat at COP21. Gates’ nuclear dream doesn’t stand up to critical analysis. What is needed isrenewable energy DEPLOYMENT, not just research. The global nuclear industry is clearly getting the jitters.
Paris Climate Conference ‘At the Limits of Suicide,’ Commitments Nowhere Near Enough to Miss 2 C. Complaint Filed Against French State Utility EDF-Climate Conference Sponsor for False Advertising. Republic of Marshall Islandsseeks refuge in USA for its climate (and nuclear) victims.
Global warming is increasing wildfires (and increasing the danger from nuclear facilities). $3.4 Trillion Fossil Fuel Divestment Globally.
A warning to COP21 on dubious safety of China’s nuclear gamble.
UK Government’s Nuclear Plans – Will they work? Britons fear Donald Trump might use NATO nuclear weapons, if he becomes President.
USA
- NRC Pontificates How Much Leakage Acceptable at Nuclear Power Stations.
- US NRC Continues to Manipulate the ASME Code; Feigns Safety Concerns.
- High cancer levels in those who lived near Coldwater Creek’s nuclear wastes, St Louis County.
- The Strange Politics of Global Warming and Nuclear Power.
- Entergy will definitely shut down Fitzpatrick nuclear power plant.
- Insurance companies watching as USA Nuclear company seeks to extend life of reactors to 80 years.
- New York City and State Department oppose relicensing of Indian Point nuclear plant.
- A new nuclear dream: Westinghouse wants its employees to produce new reactor designs.
- Questions on nuclear waste storage: salt more permeable than previously thought?
- Radioactive spill at Cotter’s defunct uranium mill in central Colorado.
JAPN. Troubling indications of recurring nuclear criticality at FukushimaDaiichi. Despite bribes offered, 47 Prefectures not keen to host Japan’s 166,000 tons of nuclear waste. ‘NO to nuclear waste dumping’ say 13 Japanese Prefectures.
CANADA Ontario’s Energy Minister announces yet another sweetheart nuclear deal.
GERMANY expecting nuclear utilities to pay the costs of decommissioning and disposal of radioactive trash. Germanutility RWE splits, in order to deal with costs of nuclear station closures.
BELGIUM extending life of nuclear reactors – meets with criticism on this, as nuclear no solution to climate change.
FRANCE sets up Europe’s biggest solar farm: it’s cheaper than nuclear power station. France to spend billions onAfrican renewable energy projects.
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The global nuclear industry is clearly getting the jitters
As you notice the spate of worthy articles in worthy journals saying that for climate action, we need new nuclear power, you might think that a mood of optimism now prevails in the nuclear industry.
Not so. Indeed, the very presence of this media hype could well be interpreted as a collective scream of desperation from that industry.
What other industry would decide that it’s necessary to hand out 5000 books (“Climate Gamble”) , in Paris, extolling nuclear as the cure for global warming, while damning the anti-nuclear movement.
Meanwhile, in Cape Town, South Africa, at the Nuclear Supply Chain Conference, delegates were told the dismal facts:
‘the nuclear industry has been “catastrophic” and “counter-productive”
‘Environmental lobby groups like Greenpeace receive tremendous support from religious and civic society groups as well as the general public. Its message is clear: nuclear energy must go.
Andrew Kenny, an independent energy analyst, told delegates that nuclear is “regarded with suspicion, hostility and fear by many people around the world”.’ – Matthew Le Cordeur. News 24 Wire 1 De3c 15
I smell a Breakthrough Energy Coalition nuclear rat at COP21
I just read this article – http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-paris-climate-change-innovation-bill-gates-mark-zuckerberg-20151130-story.html
This week – CLIMATE CHANGE is the issue
The climate is a common good, belonging to all and meant for all.
What kind of world do we want to leave to those who come after us, to children who are now growing up?
It is time to acknowledge that light- hearted superficiality has done us no good.
We need to be alert to one sad sign of the “globalization of indifference”: the fact that we are gradually growing accustomed to the suffering of others, as if it were something normal
We are confronted with a choice which cannot be ignored: either to improve or to destroy the environment. – Pope Francis
As I write, the Paris Climate Change Summit COP21 gets underway. There is one important message about COP21 – IT’S A START – NOT A CONCLUSION. UNICEF reports that the greatest harm from climate change will be to children. Impetus for action should come from COP21, but corporations are geared up to undermine climate agreements.
I am happy to report that it looks very much as if nuclear power is off the table as an energy source to be chosen at the Paris summit – too dangerous, and more significantly, too expensive.
Melbourne kicked off the global wave of rallies with a huge climate march.
Pope and Muslim leaders in call for climate action.
Declaration of the World Nuclear Victims Forum in Hiroshima.
The unmentioned apocalyptic ISIS terror – attack on nuclear reactors. Nor do world leaders talk about the terrorism possibility regarding nuclear weapons. Increasing risk of sabotage by extremists working in the nuclear industry.
EUROPE. European Commission in-depth investigation into Hungarian investment support for Paks II nuclear power.
INDONESIA‘s fires – enormous output of greenhouse emissions.
FRANCE‘s new energy law to drastically limit electricity from nuclear power. EDF removes employees, fears radicalisation at nuclear facilities.
USA Dead nuclear reactors still leave an intractable wastes problem. USA’s nuclear operators want to extend reactor lives to 80 years! New York Opposes Big Easy Nuclear Relicensing Near New York City. USA anxious about nuclear proliferation, but keen to market nuclear technology to South Korea.
JAPAN. Fukushima: pressure of groundwater is causing underground wall around reactors to lean and crack. Japan to step up radiation protection, as worker’s leukaemia attributed to radiation
RUSSIA now plans to store nuclear wastes on Arctic islands ! Russia’s plan for a Nuclear-Powered Data Centre. Russia keen to market nuclear power to impoverished Cambodia. Sale of nuclear reactors to Egypt entails big debt to Russia.
INDIA again tests a Nuclear-Capable Missile. India opposes deal to phase out fossil fuels by 2100 at climate summit.
UK govt allout for nuclear power, discriminates against solar in tax system. Londan Mayor Boris Johnson scathing about £18bn cost of Hinkley nuclear plan. Hackers could shut down UK’s £31 billion nuclear weapon system – warns defence expert.
CHINA Did China dump nuclear trash in Northern Sudan?
Nuclear news this week
SAFETY ISSUES. Despite airplane bombing , and Egypt’s lax security, Russia to provide nuclear reactors to Egypt! Indonesia will block its waters to nuclear waste ship travelling to Australia. Japan ramps up its evacuation rules for nuclear ship accidents.
NUCLEAR LOBBY CLIMATE SPIN “The Third Way” – front group for new nuclear spinning hard for Paris Climate Conference. “NuclearMatters” lobby group revs up its spin ahead of Paris climate conference. Nuclear lobby predominates at Wisconsin public hearing.
US NRC Proposes 100% Cancer Rate; Ignores Taxpayer Funded BEIR Report; Ignores ICRP; Ignores New Study of US, UK and French Nuclear Workers. 17 year delay before USA govt even starts cleanup of Hanford radioactive waste.
EUROPE/UK Legal challenge to UK’s Hinkley nuclear plan is joined by Luxembourg. European regulators start legal action against Hungary’s Paks nuclear power project.
Europe’s nuclear companies face multi $billion burden in disposing of dead nuclear reactors.
UK’s Hunterston nuclear reactor has cracks in bricks at core.
AFRICA. Report from Nuclearisation of Africa Symposium highlights harmful effects of uranium mining.
RENEWABLE ENERGY Investment Bank Lazar finds wind and solar beat coal and nuclear on costs.
This week in nuclear and climate news
CLIMATE CHANGE. Obama Administration enables nuclear industry to pitch itself as climate change solution. Nuclear lobby hoping to be part of Paris Climate Talks. Christiana Figueres: a climate action force to be reckoned with.
TRANS PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP Big Corporations need not worry about Climate Agreements: the Trans Pacific Partnership will fix that for them! Nov 16 – 18 Mass Mobilization To Stop The TPP.
NUCLEAR WEAPONS. Oh goody! America has a more ‘usable’ bombin Europe! Russia leaks ‘Secret’ Plans For Nuclear Weapons. USA trying to persuade Pakistan to constrain its nuclear weapons program. $493 billion invested in nuclear weapons by banks, insurance companies and pension funds. Narrowly avoided accidental nuclear apocalypse in 1983 revealed. Jeremy Corbyn has got it rightabout Trident nuclear missiles.
RUSSIA. Russia’s militarisation of the Arctic, and the danger of itsmini nuclear reactors.
JAPAN. Radiation effects from Fukushima have been chronically underestimated.
INDIA. It seems that nobody will be liable for a nuclear disaster in India! India shuts down nuclear criticGreenpeace.
USA. US EPA Supports No Safe Dose of Radiation; Objects to NRC Proposal of 100 mSv per Year: Comment Deadline 19 Nov. 11.59 PM. Cover-up of radiation hazard at children’s holiday camp in Southern California. Not much real help to nuclear lobby from White House. USA’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission considering 80 year licenses for nuclear reactors!. Legal case over St Louis radioactive trash – 2700 cancer cases from nuclear radiation?
UK. Miscarriages and Congenital Conditions in Offspring of Veterans of the British Nuclear Atmospheric Test Programme. Chromosome Translocations in Nuclear Test Veterans. What is going to happen toDana Durnsford, The nuclear proctologist?
PRISM (Power Reactor Innovative Small Module) and MOX much touted, but nuclear waste burial is best.
CANADA Canadians near nuclear power stations given iodine pills.
FINLAND‘s underground nuclear waste storage plan approved.
The latest in nuclear and climate news
Is nuclear fusion a goer? Not really
Down, down, down goes the price of uranium.
USA.
- Fire erupts within feet of USA radioactive trash dump. Nevada Radioactive Waste Dump Fire: 47 Pounds of Plutonium Buried at the Beatty “Low Level” Waste Site; Foreshadow of Things to Come Due to Continued Burial of Radioactive Waste in N. America and Europe
- St Louis residents demanding answers on underground fire near nuclear waste.
- Campaign is launched against dangerous nuclear waste transport.
- All too many failures in nuclear power pipelines.
- NRC allows nuclear companies to use decommissioning funds for waste storage, violating rules.
- Federal authorities cancel shipment of high level radioactive trash to Idaho.
- Is Petition for Increasing Public Exposure to Radiation a USNRC Inside Job? Retired NRC Counsel: Carol Marcus Wrote Another Petition at the Request of NRC Staff.
- Renewable energy – 60% of new USA electricity capacity.
- USA environmental groups demand changes to Trans Pacific Partnership.
Bikini Islanders – first expelled by nuclear tests. now by climate change, want to migrate to USA.
UK. Significant Hurdles Remain for Franco-Chinese Nuclear Reactors in Britain
CHINA far from being nuclear industry hope, could be its nightmare.
JAPAN. No foreseeable end to Fukushima’s daily dumping of radioactive waste to Pacific Ocean. Japan keen to sell nuclear reactors to Kazakhstan. Japanese Prefecture Kyoto moves to replace nuclear with gas and renewables, in pact with Alaska.
RUSSIA. Bellona joins other anti nuclear non profit groups – no longer NGO, harassed by Russian govt.
BRAZIL. Corruption and mismanagement stall Brazil’s nuclear programme.
SOUTH AFRICA. South Africa’s Flawed Environmental Assessments for New Nuclear Build.
GERMANY.Germany’s Renewable Energy Generated Almost Double The Amount From Nuclear.
UAE. United Arab Emirates called upon to lead in regional nuclear disarmament.
INDONESIA. This Could Be the Worst Climate Crisis in the World Right Now
This week in nuclear and climate news
Nuclear Worker Study Affirms that Low Doses of Radiation are Deadly: Increased Cancer Risk Much Worse Than Previously Believed.
Vatican insists that United Nations must work for nuclear disarmament.
CLIMATE CHANGE “Too Furious For Human Intervention” — Climate Feedbacks Spur Out of Control Wildfires From Indonesia to Brazil. Rich countries put planet on course for irreversible climate change. Climate change is going to cost even more than was predicted. Exxon’s campaign to spread doubt on the science of climate change. Political oblivion for ‘climate villains’ – Canada’s PM Harper, Australia’s PM Abbott.
JAPAN Many radiation related cancers to come, as Japan confirms Fukushima worker’s radiation caused cancer.Thyroid Cancer in Fukushima Children: 2011 to 2014. Fukushima insect study shows there is no safe low level of ionising radiation.
USA.
- “Hormesis” Advocates Dodge Scientific Rigor with “Special Pleadings” – Ties to Tobacco Industry & Koch Brother Exposed by CHP Emeritus: November 19th Comment Deadline Looms.
- Radiation and cancer: to USA’s NRC it’s PR not science, that counts.
- Residents of St Louis County get cancer from long-term exposure to low level radiation. Decades of bungling over radioactive landfill in St Louis County.
- Radioactive material keeps getting stolen from Los Alamos National Laboratory.
- Media blackout on US sailors made ill by Fukushima radiation.
- New York nuclear stations can’t afford costly shutdowns – so delay decommissioning.
- Precious Groundwater in Drought Areas Threatened by Uranium Mining.
UK. Sell EDF shares, because of Hinkley nuclear costs – says leading broker. Sheer folly of UK government’s super costly nuclear deal with China, while cutting renewable energy. UK nuclear deal is a golden handout to China. Solar and storage could supply as much electricity to UK, as nuclear, at half the subsidy cost. Britain’s cost for new nuclear could buy 6 times the amount of wind energy.
CANADA Will Canada now oppose depleted uranium weapons? The legal tangle of corruption and CANDU nuclear company SNC Lavalin.
Pakistan refuses to limit tactical nuclear weapons.
Israel. Iran nuclear deal endorsed by Israel’s Nuclear Advisory Panel.
Russia Dissolves Non-Profit Groups Working for Transparency on Nuclear and Environmental Issues.
Spain. 50 years later, USA will clean up site of nuclear bombs’ crash in Spain.
This week’s nuclear/climate news, with a focus on ionising radiation
Try as I may, I can’t seem to make this weekly news roundup shorter. I don’t expect that people will read it all, or go to all links. However, just the 3 top links here are very much worth reading. They deal with the subject of ionising radiation. On October 7 Dr Helen Caldicott is speaking at Sydney Universityon this subject. Meanwhile the global nuclear lobby is intensifying its propaganda lie that ionising radiation is harmless.
- Three Nobel Prize winners calculated the genetic damage of nuclear energy.
- Biological Consequences of Nuclear Disasters: From Chernobyl to Fukushima.
- Film ‘The Martian” gets it really wrong about ionising radiation.
CLIMATE CHANGE. Narrow window of opportunity to prevent rapid drastic fall in Antarctic ice sheets.
IRAN. IAEA has completed its investigation of Iran’s nuclear past. Nuclear deal approved by Iran Parliament.
USA.
- ‘New Nuclear” lobby wants to weaken USA’s safety regulations.
- USA’s nuclear industry staggers to its tomb, as Pilgrim Station shuts down. Financial facts were the killer. Closure of Pilgrim nuclear station opens a new era of costly, dangerous, radioactive trash clean-up.
- Threat of out of control fire to radioactive trash site. Is the Missouri Landfill Fire a US Chernobyl or Fukushima in the Making?
- Burial of radioactive trash at San Onofre? NOT a good idea.
- The fight to preserve pure water in Nebraska from uranium mining contamination.
- Move for Grand Canyon Monument that would ban uranium mining.
- Dramatic fall in price of solar electricity.
UK. Together Against Sizewell C (TASC) plan legal action against Hinkley nuclear power project. Britain fawns over Xi Jinping – preparatory to China taking over UK’s nuclear industry . Security concern over China’s involvement in UK’s nuclear project Overwhelming costs of Britain’s Trident nuclear submarines – cannot be measured. How UK govt helped the nuclear industry hide the truth on the Fukushima catastrophe.
FRANCE. Nuclear energy falls from France’s pride and joy, to its expensive source of woe.
SWEDEN shutting down 2 nuclear reactors.
JAPAN. No evacuation plan, yet PM Abe restarts another Sendai nuclear reactor. Second nuclear reactor started at Sendai, despite public opposition. Anxious about 2020 Olympics, Tepco to hasten ice wall project at Fukushima nuclear station.
SOUTH KOREA. Expansion of South Korea’s massive Kori Nuclear Power Plant near 3.4 million people – an insane plan.
INDIA. Record low price for solar power to be sold by Indian Government.
CHINA keen to market nuclear technology overseas.
KENYA. Remote Kenya will be connected to grid with Africa’s larges wind farm.
This week’s nuclear news
Study shows there is no safe low level of ionising radiation. Astronauts to Mars would get cancer from ionising radiation in space.
Exaggerated, inaccurate, reporting about nuclear smugglers. Smugglers tried to sell radioactive material to extremists.
Cyber security danger to nuclear stations.
Wikileaks released text of Trans Pacific Partnership – worrying sections about freedom of information.
CLIMATE CHANGE. International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde says now is the time for carbon tax.
European regulators approve nuclear waste plan – all too generous to the operators.
UK. Scotland’s Labour MPs join new labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, in supporting nuclear disarmament. Britain’s national embarrassment – the failing Hinkley nuclear white elephant. Nuclear power building – UK’s worry of China’s poor health and safety record. Serious questions about China’s involvement in Britain’s new nuclear power projects. Rating agencies warn EDF of downgrade, if they continue with Hinkley nuclear station plan.
JAPAN. Fukushima. Surge in thyroid cancers in Fukushima. Radiation danger forces delay to inspection of Fukushima Unit 2 Containment. Critical problem of Fukushima nuclear reactor No2 – where is molten core? Nuclear contamination case against TEPCO is sent by police to prosecutors. Chilling Fukushima photos by Arkadiusz Podniesinski.
RUSSIA. The continuing scandal of Russia’s Mayak nuclear contamination – whistleblower seeks asylum in France. At least four Russian cruise missiles have crash-landed in Iran
USA.
- Bill Gates to export ‘new nuclear’ reactors to China, where the safety regulations are slacker.
- Examining Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s deceptive article about ending the cancer research.
- San Onofre site to get “concrete monolith” for high level radioactive trash – spent nuclear fuel. Secret deals to fleece ratepayers over costs of closing the San Onofre nuclear plant.
- Duke Energy very doubtful about new nuclear stations.
- Republican politicians trying to remove Wisconsin’s ban on new nuclear power stations.
- Fake parts sold for nuclear submarines.
FRANCE. France’s nuclear corporation AREVA is still there – only just. France hoping to get Japan to help save failed nuclear company AREVA.
SOUTH KOREA. Increasing public opposition to South Korean govt’s nuclear power policy.
SOUTH AFRICA. Impossible to fund South Africa’s nuclear power plan.
INDIA. A nuclear power plant project is stalled.
This week’s nuclear and climate news
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CLIMATE CHANGE. Still possible to contain climate change: Paris UN conference will be critical. Pope Francis’ US visit has triggered awareness of climate change as a moral issue. Bank of England warns on climate change’s threat to global stability. Coming refugee crisis as sea levels rise on Pacific Islands.
JAPAN. Afraid about radiation, but afraid to speak out: Fukushima mothers. Japan’s coastal population: risks from radiation ignored by govt and IAEA. Death of heroic anti war photographer Kikujiro Fukushima. Fukushima’s Unitno.5 nuclear reactor was gravely endangered, IAEA finally admits. ‘Japanese govt creates illusion of normality at Fukushima’
GERMANY. Massive Protest Planned Against New Atomic Weapons In Germany.
UK.
- Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn opposes renewal of Trident nuclear weapons programme.
- PICAT – A Public Interest Case Against Trident, co-ordinated by Trident Ploughshares.
- Dr Ian Fairlea sets out the grim facts on costs at the end of the nuclear power chain.
- British media needs to wake up to the national scandal of the Hinkley nuclear project.
- British nuclear submarine stricken with technical problems off coast of Iran.
- Shetland Islands Council endorses Mayors for Peace call for nuclear weapons free world.
UKRAINE. Ukraine’s Nuclear Truth: No Free Speech. Energoatom Lawsuit Against Ukrainian Activists is the Latest Attempt to Stifle Public Debate Over Ageing Nuclear Reactors; Transboundary Impacts.
USA.
- Tick of approval for NRC’s decision to Restore Public Access to Information.
- Former Los Alamos worker counters the disinformation from the nuclear lobby .
- Storage of radioactive debris on beach near San Onofre nuclear facility!
- NBC4 investigates cover-up of Southern California nuclear disaster.
- Medical and Media Manipulation by Boeing, in cover-up of USA Nuclear Disaster.
- Nuclear lobby keen to ‘educate’ public.
- USA nuclear fans trivialise effects of nuclear bombing.
SWEDEN European court upholds Sweden’s right to tax nuclear power stations.
MARSHALL ISLANDS. Mururoa Nuclear Radiation Report Scheduled for October. Alternative Nobel Prize goes to Marshall Island’s nuclear challenger.
SOUTH AFRICA ‘s Treasury kept its nuclear work secret.
Roundup of the week’s nuclear and climate news
The deck chairs at the Titanic Paris Climate Talks in December include a chair for EDF the giant French nuclear company, which is a sponsor of the conference. Meanwhile in UK, the Thorium Nuclear lobby has got itself charity status. The global nuclear lobby is working hard to win the world to its new, though yet non-existent, technologies. It is using 3 main lies:
LIE 1 “new nuclear solves the wastes problem”. For September www.antinuclear.net and www.nuclear-news.net have focused on that particular lie. LIE 2. “Low dose ionising radiation is harmless, even good for you” – a focus for October. LIE 3. “nuclear solves climate change” – the focus for November.
- The real reason the Nuclear Regulatory Commission cancelled its cancer research.
- How the USA govt covered up a nuclear meltdown, and radiation pollution in Southern California.
- Pentagon Preparing War Plans for Baltic Battle Against Russia.
- Privatisation of USA’s nuclear arsenal – wasteful, inefficient, irresponsible.
- South Carolina to review law that allows nuclear utilities to charge rate-payers in advance.
- Salem nuclear plant cooling-water affecting the Delaware River.
- Pilgrim nuclear plant just too costly to keep running.
In the news this week – Nuclear and Climate
WORLD. Learn about these terrific films showing at Uranium Film Festival in Berlin. Russian who saved world from nuclear war.
IndependentWHO: Our demands to World Health Organisation.
Arab Bid to Monitor Israel’s Nuclear Sites Rejected at UN Atomic Agency.
MEDIA. Fukushima Sensationalism and Hoaxes
RENEWABLE ENERGY Renewable energy race – 5 developing countries fast ditching fossil fuels. 100% renewable energy achieved in city of Columbia, Maryland. Colorado city Aspen achieves 100% renewable energy. 500 MW Renewable Energy Plan for Alabama.
JAPAN ignores post Fukushima nuclear safety guidelines JAPAN lifts evacuation orders on irradiated towns in preparation for 2020 Summer Olympics. Call by former Prime Minister Koizumi for a national anti nuclear movement. Unspoken Death Toll of Fukushima: Nuclear Disaster Killing Japanese Slowly.
Fukushima Typhoon Etau flooded Fukushima Daiichi. Strontium-90 density rose up 155 percent of the previous highest reading in the seaside of Reactor 2. 395 bags of tainted material washed away in floods. Tepco started discharging contaminated groundwater beside crippled reactor buildings. 850 tons of ‘decontaminated’ Fukushima water dumped into ocean. Another Fukushima worker died / No media coverage. Solar farms in Fukushima.
FRANCE.French govt uses amendment to impose nuclear waste dump without parliament vote
UK. Bloomberg Finance gives 5 good reasons not to build Hinkley nuclear station. Lib Dem Leader Tim Farron Calls for Independent Investigation into Environmental Damage from Nuclear Industries. Britain’s nuclear plans: the Corbyn factor. U.S. Nuclear Missile Submarine Surfaces in Scotland. Is UK’s ‘white elephant’ nuclear power programme linked to nuclear weapons programme?
USA. Nuclear Regulatory Commission might back quack pro nuclear ‘science’ on ionising radiation! Entergy’s FitzPatrick Nuclear Reactor next to bite the dust? Resentencing of USA’s nun who broke into nuclear weapons complex. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s scathing attack on the Koch brothers and corporate greed How Charles Koch Prevents Clean Energy Businesses From Succeeding. Last bid to kill Iran nuclear deal blocked in Senate. Former Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann wants USA to bomb Iran.
NORWAY Norway, Russia sign deal on nuclear accidents.
SOUTH AFRICA fires key nuclear negotiator
NORTH KOREA Experts guessing about meaning of North Korea’s renewed nuclear threat.
INDIA. India: Dumping of Radioactive Water Imperils Mumbai; 9 Nuclear Scientists “Commit Suicide”
IRAN. How world health will benefit from Iran nuclear deal.
AUSTRALIA. Gets rid of worst ever Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, but govt nuclear and climate policies unchanged
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