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WORLD. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists launches Cost Calculator for the nuclear fuel chain.
Cyber attack an increasing threat to nuclear facilities – says IAEA.
Whole brain radiation found not to be beneficial for brain cancer patients.
USA. Significant rise in ionising radiation in atmosphere over Southern California. Censored emails show US govt concern about Fukushima radiation on West Coast of USA.
USA’s defense authorisation bill- unaffordable – detached from budgetary reality. New EIA analysis shows nukes don’t help reduce carbon emissions under EPA’s Clean Power Plan.
70 years of cancer-causing nuclear pollution in St Louis.
JAPAN. Japan’s government’s optimism on nuclear power future doesn’t ring true- finance analysts. Restart of Sendai nuclear plant will be delayed.
Fukushima. Greenpeace releases confidential IAEA Fukushima-Daiichi accident report. Fukushima Daiichi ‘s Port has Record Levels of Radiation. Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) official warns on hydrogen explosion risk at Fukushima. A nation-wide network formed in Japan, to sue government and TEPCO, over the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
UK. Dead nuclear reactors in Plymouth – expensive to maintain, and a cause of local anxiety.
AUSTRIA. ready to take legal action against subsidising of nuclear reactors.
FRANCE. Merger of AREVA and EDF, to save nuclear giant AREVA- French tax-payers to fork out.
SOUTH AFRICA. Secrecy, and no costing known, in South Africa’s plans for nuclear power
IRAN Urgent talks between USA and Iran before June 30 deadline.
AUSTRALIA. South Australia’s Nuclear Fuel Chain Royal Commission has gone very quiet. They are now in Japan, then to Taiwan, Finland, Austria, France and the United Kingdom. It’s all quite secretive – no idea what their global junket is costing the South Australian tax-payer. Why is no media covering this?
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The very big gender gap – women don’t like nuclear power.
Cut-throat competition between global nuclear companies to export reactors.
WEAPONS AND WAR. Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference flounders over Middle East nuclear concerns . Catholic Church wants nuclear disarmament, not deterrence.
No Signs of Russian Nuclear Weapons Deployment – NATO Commander.
North Korea claims that it can make mini nuclear weapons.
USA. USA government effectively stymied Nuclear Nonproliferation Conference. Immediate release ordered for Sister Megan Rice and her compatriots. High cancer rates in thorium and uranium contaminated sites in Missouri.
Heightened danger of war from appearance of American warships in South China Sea.
JAPAN . Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority gives approval for restart of Sendai reactors. Japan’s spent fuel problem will escalate, casting doubt on nuclear restart plans. Unable to get volunteer locations, Japan will now impose nuclear waste sites. Tokyo hit by 5.6y mag earthquake. Abe government trampling on press freedoms – concern grows in Japan. Japan raises the ‘acceptable’ radiation level for nuclear emergency workers. Japan’s Government and TEPCO sued by Ex-Futaba mayor, over Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Fukushima.
- Inadequate cleaning of Fukushima radioactive water.
- As many as 333 radioactive water tanks may be leaking.
- Plaintiffs suing over Fukushima nuclear disaster form nationwide network.
- Inspector resigns as 127 Fukushima children diagnosed malignant or possible malignant thyroid tumor.
- Japanese Government disengages its support to Fukushima victims.
- Neurological and heart disease – huge rise in Fukushima evacuees.
- Ministry plans to end TEPCO compensation to 55,000 Fukushima evacuees in 2018.
FRANCE. Gloomy financial situation for AREVA in so many ways. Safety problems may mean the end for AREVA’s EPR nuclear reactor.
GERMANY.German nuclear utilities don’t have enough money for decomissioning reactors.
FINLAND pulls out of building Olkiluoto 4 nuclear reactor.
SWEDEN Investors flee Nordic nuclear company Vattenfall.
UK. Nuclear power link to breast cancer. UK’s hunt for Trident nuclear system whistleblower. Britain outsourcesguarding of its nuclear facilities to private company.
CANADA. Potassium iodate pills for Canadian communities near nuclear facilities. First Nations land would host Ontario nuclear waste, but First Nations don’t get a say.
CHINA Chinese scientist warns on dubious safety of China’s nuclear power programme.
NEW ZEALAND. Distrust in New Zealand about Commission to study effects of Pacific nuclear bombing.
SOUTH AFRICA‘s nuclear company Eskom runs out of money for assessing environmental impact of nuclear energy. Govt is hiding the true costs of nuclear power.
Uranium .Continued down ward trajectory of the global uranium market. A year of losses for Namibia’ Rossing uranium mine. Trying to cut costs, TEPCO to sell uranium stockpile.
Trans Pacific Partnership. Corporate control of government, and the Internet are the goals – Julian Assange.
Climate Change. Big energy firms get privileged access to top EU climate officals. Tipping point for some Antarctic glaciers reached in 2009.
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Nuclear Non Proliferation Talks continue, amidst accelerating weapons race.
Nuclear power industry. Paris Climate Talks will be the focus of theglobal nuclear lobby’s strategy. No new Generation IV Nuclear designs will be ready for build before 2050
Japan: Expert panel says 3 faults beneath Shika nuclear power plant may be active. Opponents of nuclear waste sitehold symposium to counter gov’t forum on same day. Taiwan is banning import of all foodstuffs from Japan. North East Japan rocked by M6.8 earthquake.
Fukushima. 10,000 lawsuits against TEPCO, operator of Fukushima nuclear power plant. High radiation doses in 991 Fukushima Daiichi workers.
Iran. Gulf leaders support nuclear deal with Iran.
France‘s nuclear safety worries as fires break out close to 3 nuclear power plants. AREVA’s nuclear options narrowin attempt to save the company
USA. Alarm in New York following explosion at Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant. Anti nuclear activists Sister Megan Rice, Michael Walli, and Greg Boertje-Obed still in prison with no sentence at all. Weapons proliferation and other risks inUSA’s marketing of nuclear technology to China. Elizabeth Warren makes a compelling case against the Trans-Pacific Partnership
UK. Safety limits relaxed at Sellafield nuclear facility.
Ukraine. Serious concerns over the safety of Ukraine’s nuclear waste storage.
Cyprus, Greek and Turkish groups unite to stop Turkish nuclear plant
Uranium. Things look crook for the uranium market – no respite in sight. Canadian review board knocks back Areva’s planned uranium mineas uneconomic.
Renewable energy. I can’t actually cope with keeping up on this. From now on – I’ll just put headlines brief notes on my website.
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World. Conference The Nuclear Non Proliferation has weaknesses, but it’s all that we’ve got. At Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Austria calls for ban on nuclear weapons. Generation IV Nuclear Reactors no better than the current ones. Astronauts at risk from brain damage due to ionising radiation. Tesla renewable energy storage battery may well have killed nuclear power.
Canada. Canada’s Nuclear Regulator in reality a promoter of the industry. Ontario Power Generation waste dump plan does not have the necessary approval of area First Nations. Plan for waste dump could threaten safety of Great Lakes – say US critics. Lake Huron is NOT the answer to Canada’s nuclear waste problem- Dr. Benishek
France. AREVA’s woes heralding a slippery global slope for the nuclear industry? 6,000 employees of failing nuclear giant AREVA are to lose their jobs. Areva’s nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in La Hague in crisis- shunned by clients.
USA. America’s nuclear non-proliferation policy is a disaster. US Senate passes Bill to give Congress a stake in nuclear deal with Iran. Court clears anti nuclear nun of sabotage conviction. USA spending $60 Mln on Multilateral Nuclear Environmental Program in Russia (MNEPR). USA backing Saudi Arabia’s push for ballistic missile defense system and bunker buster bombs. Neuropathy in Navajo children almost certainly caused by uranium mining pollution. Nuclear industry embarks on a public advertising campaign.
Russia has been reducing its nuclear armaments, complying with NPT. Corruption in Russia’s nuclear industry
Japan. Japan’s earthquake risk to nuclear reactors is being ignored, says seismic expert. Like the canary in a coalmine, birds tell real story of Fukushima. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe muzzling critics in Japan’s media. Despite the USA’s nuclear lobby – solar power is winning in Japan.
Ukraine. Forest fires threatening Chernobyl nuclear plant. Chernobyl nuclear plant remains a high danger, withinstability in Ukraine.
India. Government action may force Greenpeace to close there
Taiwan. As Taiwan’s radioactive trash accumulates, opposition grows to the export of nuclear waste.
Sweden. accelerates its closure of its uneconomic nuclear industry. Big nuclear company not interested in new nuclear power
Australia at the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference 2015 – embarrassing disarmament double-speak
New Zealand leads the world in nuclear thinking
Climate change. Record CO2 in atmosphere – greatest in a million years
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Nuclear Unsafety. Meticulous research indicates much greater likelihood of another Chernobyl-scale nuclear accident. USA and Russian generals warn of danger of cyber criminals causing a nuclear disaster
Iran. Significant concessions made by Iran in nuclear deal. Iran nuclear deal a good template for all countries, to reduce nuclear weapons proliferation.
France/Finland. No easy fix for France’s multi-billion dollar Evolutionary Power Reactor (EPR). Flamanville nuclear safety problem – a knockout blow for UK’s EPR reactor project? Finland’s nuclear regulator demands safety check forOlkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor’s pressure vessel
UK. Delays and yet more delays – safety issues for £24.5bn Hinkley Point nuclear power project
Japan. Court in south-west Japan rejects a residents’ injunction against restarting 2 nuclear power plants
Fukushima. As workers’ radiation exposure count rises, shortage of labour predicted at Fukushima nuclear plant. Thedemise of 2 robots inside the Fukushima nuclear disaster. ¥3.57 trillion needed in next 5 years for “rebuilding” Fukushima. Radiation has wreaked havoc with Fukushima’s birds
Russia‘s thirst for Arctic mining causes effort to retrieve sunken nuclear submarines
USA. Nuclear lobby pushing for corporate welfare and exports, through the Export-Import Bank. Obama keen to sell USA nuclear technology to China. Dozens of USA nuclear reactors at risk of closure for economic reasons.
South Korea hopes new deal with USA will forward its nuclear technology export business
Austria‘s opposition to nuclear power
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Please note – dirty tricks department. If you saw the Twitter note, (by pro thorium nuclear troll “Thomas Huxley”)- saying that my posts here are contaminated by a Trojan virus – that is simply not true. It’s a lie – aimed at stopping people from reading anti nuclear material.
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Pope Francis goes all out for nuclear disarmament
Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) – the nuclear lobby’s desperate delusion
Fukushima. TEPCO abandons the failed robot stuck inside Fukushima nuclear reactor. Japan mulls releasing radiation into air, instead of water – evaporation instead of Pacific ocean drainage. Highly Contaminated WaterRemains in Unit 1 Basement.
China. Wind power rising fast in China, once again producing more electricity than nuclear power is. Nuclear reprocessing not going at all well. China’s new nuclear reactors lack required modern safety features
USA. Fears of a nuclear Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) cause Pentagon to re-open Cheyenne mountain bunker. Issues of anger and violence – in commander in charge of moving nuclear bombs. Michigan lawmaker urges Congress to oppose Canada’s waste dump plan near Lake Huron. Federal Judge OKs Uranium Mining Next to Grand Canyon National Park. Steady fall in support for nuclear power among American public.
UK. Debate on whether or not Britain should have its own Trident nuclear arsenal
Canada. Local opposition to nuclear waste dumping seems to work. Vancouver the latest of 50 cities to commit to100% renewable energy.
Taiwan‘s nuclear waste storage problem may cause early retirement of nuclear reactor
Turkey. Agressive pro nuclear propaganda in Turkey (a taste of what’s to come, globally?)
India‘s government acts to cut off funding for Greenpeace: freezes its bank accounts
Financial success for investors who dumped holdings in coal, gas and oil
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Ukraine. A most interesting news item this week has been further information on the impact of Chernobyl radiation inhibiting the processes of decay of dead trees. A new study published in Oecologia, decomposers—organisms such as microbes, fungi and some types of insects that drive the process of decay—have also suffered from the contamination. Alexey Yablokov also reported effects on disease bacteria, and the necessity for studying the microbiological consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe. World’s largest moveable structure being built – the Chernobyl sarcophagus.
Iran. Landmark agreement in nuclear deal between Iran and the West
Japan. Lawsuit against Japanese government by Fukushima residents. TEPCO not paying up for radiation fallout cleanup in local municipalities. Japan forced to give USA nuclear corporations legal immunity, in order to get help with Fukushima cleanup. Radioactive waste “forgotten”in 12 provinces other than Fukushima. Deceptive push by Japan’s ruling Party to bring back dependence on nuclear power
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Officials from Tepco have admitted that there is no technology yet invented for cleaning up the molten nuclear fuel cores. Increasing percentage of radioactive cesium in water in basement of Fukushima nuclear reactor 1. Below Fukushima nuclear plant – pools of molten nuclear fuel.
UK. UK’s Hinkley nuclear plant developments stalled as financial negotiations drag on. Nuclear waste dumps can be forced on local communities – new legislation. UK plan for solar panels on every school roof
USA. If the government bails out the failing commercial spent fuel reprocessing, (MOX – Mixed Oxide Fuel – plutonium and uranium) the big beneficiary will be the French company AREVA. Nuclear corporation Exelon using several strategies to get tax-payers and rate-payers to bail it out of financial trouble. Plans to expand South Texas nuclear plant are shelved. It’s getting serious when nuclear pollution threatens the wine industry
France. State owned nuclear corporation AREVA in deep financial trouble – needs tax-payer bailout
Bulgaria pulls out of $4bn Westinghouse nuclear deal.
Switzerland‘s revised nuclear liability law makes things much more expensive for nuclear companies
Climate Change. Thousands of years for the oceans to recover. Guardian Media Group to divest its £800m fund from fossil fuels. Anglican bishops speak out – call for divestment from fossil fuels
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36 years since Three Mile Island accident- 36 unpalatable nuclear industry facts.
France‘s nuclear industry now a liability, with AREVA’s down ward spiral. France brings in law for green or solar roofsfor new commercial buildings.
USA. For the first time, Pentagon comes clean on Israel’s nuclear weapons. It’s official: wrong sort of kitty littercaused New Mexico Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) accident. USA to establish a new “independent” Nuclear Waste Administration.
Small Modular Nuclear Reactors. Obama executive order tags small modular reactors as clean energy – the only form of nuclear power to qualify. Dubious USA Bills for Small Nuclear Reactors, “education on nuclear”, and nuclear as “renewable”. St George city decides against getting electricity from NuScale’s Small Modular Nuclear Reactors. France’s AREVA nuclear company, itself in dire financial straits, is nevertheless advising NuScale on how to market SMRs. Small Nuclear Reactors turn out to have an equally Big Radioactive Waste problem. Cost of Small Nuclear Reactors is greater than cost of large ones
Significant actions by President Obama to address climate change. Tea Party leader joins environmentalists to formGREEN TEA COALITION.
India. International Atomic Energy Agency Slams India’s Nuclear Regulations. India to get $1 Billion USA ExIm Bank Credit, nearly all of it for renewable energy development
Japan. Anti-nuclear activists want formal public hearings on risks of restarting reactors in Fukui Prefecture, Coal plants funded by Japan’s money that was designated for fighting climate change.
Fukushima.Tepco’s nuclear clean-up wasted $1.6 billion of tax-payers’ money. food products mislabeled. Radioactive cesium in Fukushima’s soil. The status of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
UK. Scotland got 50% of power from renewables in 2014.
Russia. Russia wants US to remove Its Nuclear Weapons From Europe. Russia’s economic woes delaying the buildof nuclear reactors in Turkey.
Ukraine . Perilous risks to Ukraine’s nuclear power plants in escalating war
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Iran nuclear talks reaching deadline. White House urges US Congress not to sabotage Iran nuclear negotiations
Asian and Pacific Green Parties unite in aim for nuclear free region
Anti nuclear protest: 45,000 people march in Taiwan. Anti nuclear rallies in over 200 German towns
Climate. IAE finds that renewable energy and efficiency are significantlyreducing greenhouse gas emissions
Japan. Govt aims to end nuclear power ban – but legal obstacles remain. Five old nuclear reactors to bite the dust. Japanese public to bear the costsof scrapping them. As Japan has no solution to nuclear wastes, closing reactors should start the end of nuclear industry. “Nuclear village” , like USA’s “military industrial complex” allows TEPCO to go unscathed. Anothermajor leak of radioactive water at Fukushima nuclear facility. Fukushima’s bags ofradioactive trash pile up
Europe. Legal case developing against EU’s approval of State subsidies for Hinkley nuclear plant. Renewable Energy Target to be raised in Norway and Sweden
USA. Revolving door for job between US Department of Energy and nuclear corporation. Nuclear lobby looking for tax-payer funded guinea pigsto test their new gimmicks. 100% renewable energy for Hawaii by 2040/
Canada. Nuclear reactors are not needed for medical isotopes
UK. In just one year, Sellafield nuclear clean-up bill jumps an extra £5bn
France. Nuclear company AREVA – too big to fail?
South Korea blames North Korea for nuclear power cyber attack
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Fukushima 4th anniversary events planned in London and elsewhere.
Japan: Nuclear restarts could be years away, due to legal battles Fukushima. Slow start to removing nuclear fuel rods from reactor No 3. Two new big solar projects.
UK and 7 other EU countries want European Commission funding to prop up their nuclear industry. Lawsuit over European Commission’s approval of Hinkley will expose full costs of nuclear. Germany says absolute NO to tax-payer funded nuclear power.
The ever more expensive Sellafield nuclear clean-up – £53bn cost now
USA: Nuclear power companies feeling financial pain – their future is dubious. Former governors to take legal action to stop nuclear wastes coming to Idaho
Medical disability for radiation accepted for airman who attended UFO site 30 years ago. I thought this was an interesting one – perhaps relating to some secret radiation or nuclear weapons project?
Russia: not much news about Russia. Always a worry, as their nuclear industry, weapons industry, waste disposal, – all very secretive – almost certainly more dangerous and incompetent than USA’s or UK’s. Giant craters appearing in Siberia– result of permafrost thawing, due to global warming?
Iran: Theatrics by Israel’s Netanyahu highlight the need for a nuclear agreement with Iran
Climate: Murky story of the funding of climate denialist Willie Soon
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Nuclear weapons. The focus has been on this issue throughout February. This weekend, experts in studying nuclear weapons and war have been gathering in New York at the Symposium: The Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction. It’s streaming live – and podcasts, transcripts and a book will later be available.
This week – Lots of (not very good) news on nuclear weaponry and war risks, e.g USA law-makers wanting to spend $577 billion on defense, China, Russia, India ramping up their nuclear weaponry. North Korea, too.
This month, the focus on http://www.nuclear-news.net, (and on http://www.antinuclear.net) will be on the growing movement for a clean nuclear-free planet. At the same time, a global revolution is happening at extraordinary speed – the change from “top-down” “vertically integrated” systems to “small scale or “horizontal” systems. Some business examples – Airbnb, Taskrabbit, Uber, They work through the “digital ecosystem” . Political examples – extreme religious activist groups. So it’s not all good. But most of it is good– based on trust between individuals, building “reputational capital” between strangers with a common vision.
The nuclear lobby has no grasp of this 21st Century transition.
Even the current nuclear PR for Small Modular Reactors is based on huge centrally organised, government funded, mass purchase and mass distribution – imposed from above. Compare that with the millions of homes and small businesses and institutions where individuals made the choice for solar energy – it was not imposed by government.
The clean planet movement is happening at the local level, most often led by indigenous people – and they are linking up globally. The new digital ecosytem has opened the way for millions of people to work together for a healthy nuclear-free planet.
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Climate change and war: twin threats that exacerbate each other. Jet stream affected by global warming? Danger for aircraft (esp transporting nuclear wastes)
JAPAN unable to stop highly radioactive waste from flowing out of Fukushima reactors. More approvals still needed for restart of two Japanese nuclear reactors
USA. Marshall Islands loses nuclear lawsuit against USA. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel joins coalition for renewable energy, and against nuclear. India nuclear deal protects USA nuclear companies from legal action after accidents. Feb 28 – March 1 New York Symposium The Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction.
UK. EDF’s financial problems delay decision on proposed new nuclear plant at Hinkley Point. UK government bullying Austria over UK subsidies to the nuclear industry? Continuing trial of 2 Russians accused of the 2006 radiation murder of Alexander Litvinenko.
UKRAINE. USA Sending more nuclear weapons to Europe is the wrong move
SOUTH AFRICA. Russia- South Africa secret nuclear deal exposed: details are fearful ones for South Africa. Political factors and funding problems delay South Africa’s new nuclear reactor.
CANADA Indigenous Canadians Are Fighting the Uranium Mining Industry,
NAMIBIA. Radiation leakage fear from fire in Rossing uranium mine
INDIA. USA – India agreement raises danger of nuclear weapons proliferation and nuclear war. India’s Nuclear Liability Law is a major deterrent to USA Nuclear companies
EGYPT – Russia to help Egypt build ‘a whole new nuclear power industry’ –
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Climate change adds to nuclear danger, bringing Doomsday Clock closer to midnight.
Nuclear fusion – far too costly, even if they could get it to work
Marshall Islands’ case against nuclear powers unfolds at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
India:Details remain vague on nuclear deal between Obama and Narendra Modi . USA persuades India to weaken its nuclear liability law – double standards here . Nuclear risks now covered by India’s government and Weapons proliferation standards weakened .
USA: Efforts to reform its dysfunctional nuclear weapons complex are just not good enough. Conflicts of intereston Congressional Advisory Panel on the Governance of the Nuclear Security Enterprise. USA’s nuclear utilities want ratepayers to cough up for uneconomic nuclear power plants. Florida lawmaker wants repeal of laws allowing nuclear power companies to get “advance money” from customers.
Cyber warfare now the goal of USA’s National Security Agency (NSA) New Edward Snowden Files Reveal Scope of NSA Plans for Cyberwarfare
Americans embracing rooftop solar : it makes sense economically
UK: £3bn to be spent on massive Trident nuclear weapons project, without Parliament being consulted . tax-payer landed with the astronomic costs of Sellafield nuclear facility. Government secrecy about China’s involvement in the new £24bn Hinkley nuclear power plant. British tax-payers to buy into the French-led new Hinkley Pointnuclear power plant consortium
In Scotland, renewable energy beats nuclear power
Iran: US Republicans out to destroy nuclear talks. Rouhani’s and Obama’s difficult path to a compromise
France: freedom of speech threatened by AREVA
Japan: Nuclear watchdog approves release into sea of groundwater near Fukushima reactors. Fukushima radioactive water clean-up is 2 months behind schedule . Fatal accidents cause TEPCO to suspend decommissioning at Fukushima No. 1 power plant. Japanese government for now gives up its plan to begin transporting radioactive wastes tointerim storage sites
Canada’s record breaking wind energy results
This anti-nuclear website seems to be closed to some viewers, and not to others
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Mysteriouser and mysteriouser
I can’t see this website myself – I am told by WordPress that it is suspended “due to violation of terms of service” – but they have not warned me, or told me what this supposed violation actually is!
Mystery solved – Jan 24
It seems that this website was hacked. Some attention to security , and voila – all works again!
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Climate Change.
- in 2015 Pope Francis is to be a formidable force in the battle against climate change.
- Ban Ki Moon – We are the last generation that can fight climate change.
- Only in America! : USA Senate to vote on whether or not Climate Change is real!
- USA Congress and Senate to be dominated by Anti-Science Climate Denialists. Ultra religious climate change denialist to run US Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
- Climate Change statements and promises from world leaders – all smoke and mirrors
- USA’s most ambitious renewable energy target proposed by California’s Governor, Jerry Brown
Media. Anti nuclear allies: the terrorist victims – cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo. Journalists’ self-censorship – avoiding hard topics for fear of government surveillance
Militarism. Gorbachev Says NATO Expansion Into Ukraine Could Ignite Nuclear War. The nuclear dangers in Ukraine energy wars – don’t miss the full article!
Japan Nuclear policy: the big divide in Japanese society. Fukushima: Environmental problems remain after the Fukushima nuclear disaster Pacific Ocean research. Fukushima fallout has a distinctive “fingerprint”
Iran. Rouhani’s and Obama’s difficult path towards a nuclear compromise.
UK: The Sellafield mess
- Amec, Areva and URS stripped of £20bn clean-up contract.
- 80 miles from Sellafield nuclear facility, radiation is found in food.
- Sorry history and present danger of Sellafield’s ‘Legacy” radioactive wastes
USA Nuclear industry braces for an even tougher year in 2015. Entergy can’t afford, for decades, to dismantle Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant. USA’s nuclear industry’s future in doubt – as shown in the costs of Exelon’s New York reactor
Renewable energy: New resource for renewable energy information – REsource, from IRENA. Wind power record set by Denmark as it heads towards fossil-free goal
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