Accident in the Hinkley Point site area
Somerset Live 20th Jan 2020, There have been multiple reports this evening of severe delays around the Hinkley Point site after a serious crash in the area. Emergency services including an air ambulance are reported to have attended the scene this evening, Monday, January 20.
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/reports-hundreds-trapped-hinkley-point-3760129
Watch the 2020 Doomsday Clock Announcement on January 23
Watch the 2020 Doomsday Clock Announcement on January 23By Gayle Spinazze, January 8, 2020 The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists will host a live international news conference at 10 a.m. EST/1500 GMT on Thursday, January 23, 2020, to announce the 2020 time of the Doomsday Clock. The news conference will take place at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Watch the announcement live on our website or on our Facebook page………. https://thebulletin.org/2020/01/watch-the-2020-doomsday-clock-announcement/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=ThursdayNewsletter01092020&utm_content=DoomsdayClock_ClockEvent_01082020
Nuclear industry in terminal decline – over to solar and wind
Nuclear Futures, Oil Price 18th Jan 2020unequivocally entering the era of wind and solar power. https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Nuclear-Power/Is-This-The-Death-Knell-For-Nuclear.html
Nuclear weapons are an existential threat and intertwined with the climate threat
Guardian 16th Jan 2020
 Rachel Connolly is right to demand that the Labour leadershipcandidates address the climate crisis (The nuclear button? There really are more pressing issues, Journal, 8 January). But suggesting we remove nuclear weapons from the conversation ignores how intertwined these two existential threats are. Generations of climate scientists have documented that a
nuclear war could cause drastic climatic disturbances and global famine. Last year scientists found that the use of a few hundred weapons (less than 10% of today’s global nuclear arsenals) could nearly stop all rain over India and central China, and reduce global precipitation globally by 15%-30%. It would take over a decade to return to rainfall levels before the nuclear war. Nuclear weapons destroy the climate even when they are not used. Nuclear weapons facilities – not unlike the oil and gas companies
exacerbating the climate crisis – have contaminated land and water around the world with waste that will last far beyond even our grandchildren’s lifetimes. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/16/nuclear-weapons-worsen-the-climate-crisis |
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EDF’s dubious plan to finance Sizewell C nuclear build will actually increase costs
problems and costs, not savings.
https://realfeed-intariffs.blogspot.com/2020/01/why-edfs-argument-that-they-cut-costs.html
Expensive but necessary – to protect nuclear reactors from cyber threats
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Cybersecurity
M.V. Ramana: October 2019 cyberattack on a computer system at the Kudankulam nuclear power plant points to new pathways to severe accidents that can result in widespread radioactive fallout. Attempts to lower this risk would further increase the cost of nuclear power.India Forum 10th Jan 2019 https://www.theindiaforum.in/article/computer-infection-kudankulam-and-its-implications |
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Nuclear weapons systems don’t make either Russians or Americans safer
Is Russia’s 100-Megaton Nuclear Torpedo More Trouble Than Its Worth? The National Interest, Lyle J. Goldstein, The National Interest•January 8, 2020
Key Point: The development of new weapons systems may benefit the military-industrial complex, but they don’t benefit the safety of Russians or Americans.
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The “collateral damage” of the Russia investigation becomes ever more apparent. From the breakdown of American institutional norms between the executive and the legislature, to increasing distrust regarding the law enforcement and intelligence apparatus to regional crises, for example in Syria, that seem to spin increasingly out of control, the probe has brought both U.S. domestic and foreign policy making to a the point of crisis. Yet these calamities, which are largely advantageous to newspaper subscriptions and cable news ratings, may mask a deeper and more fundamental threat: the accelerating pace of a nuclear arms race [гонка ядерных вооружений] between Moscow and Washington……. https://news.yahoo.com/russias-100-megaton-nuclear-torpedo-020000145.html |
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Nuclear’s ‘safe and green’ image is the industry’s devious hoax
 Nuclear’s ‘safe and green’ image is the industry’s devious hoax, https://www.barnstablepatriot.com/opinion/20200103/nuclears-safe-and-green-image-is-industrys-devious-hoax Dana Franchitto, South Wellfleet, Jack Edmonston is hardly alone in embracing the nuclear industry’s hoax that such energy is a “safe and green” fossil fuel alternative (“Climate change is scarier than nuclear power,” My View, Dec. 28).Writing in a 2008 issue of Extra, a publication of the watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, journalism professor Karl Grossman reveals the links among the media, the government and the industry. For example, nuclear plant manufacturer General Electric owned NBC until 2013, while Westinghouse for years owned CBS. The New York Times systemically promotes nuclear energy. And “liberal,” “independent” National Public Radio “has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from nuclear operator Sempra Energy and Constellation Energy,” according to Grossman.
The lie, lately gaining momentum, is that nuclear energy is carbon-free. Not so. True, up-and-running plants emit no greenhouse gases. However, what the Nuclear Energy Institute and its puppet, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, fail to mention is that the nuclear fuel cycle, from uranium mining and milling to enrichment, fuel fabrication and disposal of radioactive waste are greenhouse gas-intensive, according to Michel Lee, chairwoman of the Council of Intelligent Energy and Conservation Policy. She adds that nuclear power “is actually a chain of highly energy-intensive industrial processes.” Sobering in light of an MIT study postulating the construction of 1,500 new plants in the coming years. Grossman nailed it: “The only thing green about nuclear power is the nuclear establishment’s dollars.”
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Trump’s push for lofty nuclear treaty sparks worry over current deal
Trump’s push for lofty nuclear treaty sparks worry over current deal, MPR News Franco Ordoñez, January 1, 2020 President Trump and his Russian counterpart have the coming year to deal with an expiring nuclear treaty that will lapse just after the end of his first term…..
Dr David Lowry corrects the false argument about nuclear power being “carbon free”
David Lowry’s Blog 28th Dec 2019, David Lowry letter to FT. Your correspondent Dr John Law from the Clean Energy Revolution organization makes a very similar erroneous argument as he did three months ago in an earlier letter.Both repeat the false arguments promoting presumed low carbon emission benefits of nuclear power deployment made by Dr James E. Hansen and his colleagues in another recent letter you published.
fabrication, all carbon emission-rich processes.
http://drdavidlowry.blogspot.com/2019/12/atomic-cheerleaders-ignore-nuclears.html?m=1
Ignoring or downplaying serious environmental risks of nuclear power does not remove the objective danger
nuclear energy has been included under a categorisation that screens
options under a “do no harm principle”, which was pushed for by MEPs.
remember the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986, which has cost more than
€500bn in clean-up costs and lost land utility in Ukraine, Belarus,
Russia and several western European countries including the UK and Austria?
Do they not recall the more recent Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catastrophe in
2011, which is still radioactively polluting the Pacific Ocean, and would
have bankrupted its owner-operator Tepco if the Japanese government had not stepped in and bailed out the company with taxpayers’ money?
misleads elected decision makers. https://www.ft.com/content/5e05de64-1a99-11ea-9186-7348c2f183af
In Fukui Prefecture, 101 officials received gifts from former deputy mayor of town that hosts a nuclear plant.
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109 Fukui officials found receiving cash and gifts http://www.newsonjapan.com/html/newsdesk/article/125869.php A panel investigating a cash-and-gift scandal in Fukui Prefecture, central Japan, has found that 109 current and former prefectural officials received money or other gifts from a former deputy mayor of a town that hosts a nuclear plant.
The prefecture established the panel in October after the scandal involving the former deputy mayor of Takahama Town and top officials of Kansai Electric Power Company came to light. The utility operates the nuclear plant in the town. The utility officials received 3 million dollars’ worth of cash and gifts from late former deputy mayor Eiji Moriyama. The panel is made up of three lawyers, who inquired 377 current and former prefectural officials. Of 313 respondents,180 said they had contact with Moriyama, and 109 said they received cash or other gifts from him. The panel says one man received a gold coin worth about 1,000 dollars and kept it. It says he tried to return the coin to Moriyama, but was strongly rejected. The panel says it found no cases of recipients giving Moriyama favorable treatment in return. It also says most of the officials sent Moriyama thank-you gifts worth almost the same as those they’d received. Following the findings, Fukui Prefecture says it took disciplinary action against one official who received a gift certificate worth 1,000 dollars as well as a gold coin. |
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Donald Trump’s impulsiveness may play right into Kim Jong Un’s hands
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Trump Is More Vulnerable Than Ever to Kim Jong Un’s Nuclear ExtortionTrump’s growing impulsiveness and unilateral decision-making may signal to Kim that he can get precisely what he wants.
BY JUNG H. PAK
NOVEMBER 8, 2019, North Korea’s next attempt to pressure the United States to bend to Pyongyang’s will starts with a vague threat. Perhaps the threat is published in regime media or uttered by a more authoritative regime official. Or maybe it’s from Kim Jong Un himself. No one knows what to make of it, but it sparks an onslaught of speculation in the media and from pundits about what terrible things could happen. …. (subscribers only) https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/11/08/trump-north-korea-nuclear-extortion/ |
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Erdogan’s Ambitions Go Beyond Syria. He Says He Wants Nuclear Weapons.
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“Some countries have missiles with nuclear warheads,” he told a meeting of his ruling party in September. But the West insists “we can’t have them,” …….(Subscribers only) https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/20/world/middleeast/erdogan-turkey-nuclear-weapons-trump.html
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News media -Don’t call nuclear power “clean” or “green”
 Ann Darling: Nuclear power should not be linked with words like ‘clean’ or ‘green’ https://www.gazettenet.com/Darling-letter-28945232, 10/14/2019 I got behind on my reading and am just now going through your series on climate change and climate activism. I’ve learned a lot. Thank you.
I’m writing because I’ve been trying to get your writers and editors to think twice when you see mention of nuclear power in association with adjectives like clean or green. I see I have to keep on trying. Buried in your article Sept. 19 extolling the green virtues of Holyoke Gas & Electric, I found this: HSG&E “provides an enormous advantage when looking to improve the city’s commitment to reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. The source of energy HG&E draws from are around 90 percent carbon-free, including nuclear and hydro.” To begin, creating no greenhouse gasses during the actual generation of energy is not the litmus test for clean and green. Good science demands that we also ask, is the power source sustainable? Does the extraction of the fuel pollute the planet? Does the waste from producing the energy pollute the planet? In the case of nuclear power, the answers are all these questions is a resounding no. Uranium is a finite source of fuel. Its mining consumes tremendous amounts of water and leaves radioactive tailings that are still being cleaned up and have poisoned mostly Native American communities for decades. The radioactive waste generated during power production, the most toxic thing known to humankind, is with us forever, and there is no good way to neutralize or segregate it. Let’s not forget the link to nuclear weapons. The radioactive waste is used in weapons. Yes, during electricity generation, nuclear power facilities don’t emit greenhouse gasses. Thinking that nuclear power is, therefore, a good or useful thing to address climate change is short-sighted and just plain bad science. If we have learned anything, it should be that we have to consider all the consequences of a means of power production before we adopt it. I call on HG&E to divest of nuclear power and on the Gazette to think more incisively and critically about this. I challenge you to run a series on nuclear power generation and its supposed “greenness.” |
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