A long list of nuclear news this week

Some bits 0f good news Egypt becomes the seventh country in the Eastern Mediterranean Region to eliminate trachoma as a public health problem.

Colombia bans all new oil and mining projects in its Amazon.
TOP STORIES. Trump’s new radiation exposure limits could be ‘catastrophic’ for women and girls.

How Holtec International became an expanding (and controversial) nuclear power -(long, but worth it)

The Invention of “Ethical AI”.

UN Security Council Gives US ‘Mandate’ Over Palestine .
Israel’s unrelenting, underreported ethnic cleansing of West Bank Palestinians.

Climate. Pledges to triple renewables, reduce methane and double efficiency will deliver huge climate savings.

AUSTRALIA.

‘Inadequate’: Audit call on $368bn AUKUS cost estimate.
Australia Flags Indians Over $368 Billion Nuclear Submarine Espionage Fears: Did “Qatar Fiasco” Play A Part?
Coalition of the unlikely: How Australia and China could save the planet.
What Australia can learn from China to become the world’s ‘cleaner’ rare earth refiner.
ABC News advances its alliance with Murdoch’s Sky News.
Supporting genocide- Australian funds risk breaking international law.

TOPICS

ART and CULTURE. Quiet, Piggy: How Calling a Female Reporter Livestock Became Just Another Tuesday in the Death of American Democracy (Part 2)

ATROCITIES Israel Launches Major Attacks Across Gaza, Killing at Least 28 Palestinians, Including Many Children. At Least 13 Palestinians, ‘Mostly Children,’ Killed by Israel in Lebanon Massacre. ‘We lose many patients’: Inside Gaza’s last hospitals. IDF Kills Two 15-Year-Old Boys in the West Bank, Israeli Settlers Torch Mosque. Israel Moved Gaza’s Yellow Line And Then Shelled Palestinians For Being On The Wrong Side.

CIVIL LIBERTIES. ‘National Security Threat’? 95-Year-Old Human Rights Scholar Richard Falk Interrogated for Hours by Canada.

ECONOMICS.Nordic nations’ Ukraine burden ‘unsustainable’ – Sweden.
Nuclear Stocks Crash, With A Potential Payoff Still Years Away.
Google Boss Says Trillion-Dollar AI Investment Boom Has ‘Elements of Irrationality’.
Nuclear levy will increase UK energy bills from December.

OpenAI Oligarch Pre-Emptively Demands Government Bailout When AI Bubble Bursts.
US to Own Nuclear Reactors Stemming From Japan’s $550 Billion Pledge. Trump officials announce $1bn loan to restart Three Mile Island nuclear plant

EDUCATION. Lancaster University to create £2m nuclear power station control room simulator.

EMPLOYMENT. Geoffrey Hinton: They’re spending $420 billion on AI – It pays off only if they fire you. Health Care Workers Spoke Out for Their Peers in Gaza. Then Came Backlash.

ENERGY. Russian Attacks Cripple Ukraine’s Nuclear Power Output.

ENVIRONMENT. China has built first undersea data center — a breakthrough in ecocidal technology posing as “sustainable”.

ETHICS and RELIGION. Zionists Are Freaking Out About Losing Control Of The Narrative.

EVENTS. 21 – 23 November –Uranium Film Festival in Las Vegas!

LEGAL.The Knesset and the ‘Post–9/11 Method’.Austria appeals taxonomy ruling.A multi-million dollar dispute rages over Olkiluoto 3 – Only lawyers will win.State Finds No Exemption for Holtec on Nuclear Wastewater Release. Environmentalists FILE FEDERAL LAWSUIT AGAINST HOLTEC’S UNPRECEDENTED PALISADES ATOMIC REACTOR RESTART,

MEDIA. ‘Radioactive patriarchy’ documentary: Women examine the impact of Soviet nuclear testing.
For New York Times, Trump’s Gulf Corruption Is the New Normal.

OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Campaigners come together to challenge Britain’s disastrous nuclear expansion. Torness nuclear power station was opposed at every stage.
Rio Rancho residents sound alarm over hypersonic missile plant.

POLITICS. The World’s Largest Nuclear Plant Inches Toward Restart After Key Approval.

UK Government accused of ditching 24GW nuclear power target.
Ed Miliband, the Energy Secretary, is being disingenuous when he claims that nuclear energy is clean and home-grown.
Ynys Môn MP demands clear timelines and ‘transparent decisions from UK Government over new nuclear plans.
First Minister John Swinney absolutely rules out changing Scottish National Party’s no nuclear stance.
Wylfagasm! What does it tell us about Cymru?

US to “buy and own” new domestic reactors
.Energy Department loans $1B to help finance the restart of nuclear reactor on Three Mile Island.
Trump administration lends $1 billion to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor.

Kiev Coup Poker Update, 19 November 2025.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.UN Security Council Resolution On Gaza Is An ‘Atrocity’.
Russia, Ukraine and the difference between wanting peace, and needing peace. US, Russia drafting Gaza-inspired peace plan for Ukraine.
US and Russia ‘actively discussing’ settlement of Ukraine conflict – Moscow.

US Reaches Initial Deal With Saudi Arabia on Nuclear Sharing. Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Is Set to Visit Washington– Here’s What to Expect Out of His Meeting with Trump.

The Guardian view on a new nuclear age: great powers should not restock a house of dynamite.
Greenpeace claims French resumption of nuclear trade with Russia.
Big Loss for US Empire: Ecuador Votes To Reject Foreign Military Bases
China to reimpose ban on Japanese seafood imports amid row over Taiwan.
Iran says IAEA vote nullified inspections deal with UN watchdog,

PUBLIC OPINION. Will public perception derail Europe’s nuclear renaissance?

RADIATION. US Department of Energy Seeks to Eliminate Radiation Protections Requiring Controls “As Low As Reasonably Achievable”.

SAFETY. A nuclear meltdown at Zaporizhzhia would imperil the entire region- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/11/21/1-b1-a-nuclear-meltdown-at-zaporizhzhia-would-imperil-the-entire-region/.
IAEA warns of safety importance of substations.

TEPCO’s Kashiwazaki nuclear plant hit with another security flaw. Kashiwazaki Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant (KK) – even more dangerous than Fukushima

SECRETS and LIES.

The Censored History of Able Archer 83. Nuclear waste today; consumer products tomorrow?

Ukraine’s energy sector corruption crisis – what we know so far and who was involved. US senator accuses Trump of ‘silence’ on huge Ukraine corruption scandal.

The scandal Zelensky can’t escape: Inside Ukraine’s biggest corruption story. Zelensky remains a creature of the corruption plaguing Ukraine. Ukraine’s ‘EnergyGate’ scandal explained: Why it spells danger for Vladimir Zelensky.

Emails Reveal Epstein’s Ties to Mossad—But Corporate Media Looked Away.

The Palestine Laboratory: Exporting Occupation Technology (w/ Antony Loewenstein) | The Chris Hedges Report.

SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. ‘The war of tomorrow will begin in space‘: Macron.

TECHNOLOGY.Starmer’s nuclear revolution is about PowerPoints, not power- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/11/21/1-b1-starmers-nuclear-revolution-is-about-powerpoints-not-power/
The Sandoval County Rocket and Missile Complex Deal Was Done Before the Public Ever Had a Say.

URANIUM. Iran’s foreign minister says his nation is no longer enriching uranium.
France’s EDF again sends spent uranium to state-owned Russian firm for recycling.

WASTES. The Mind-Bending Challenge of Warning Future Humans about Nuclear Waste.

WAR and CONFLICT.Ukraine targeting Russian nuclear power plants amid frontline losses .US Launches a Series of Airstrikes in Somalia, Civilians Reported Killed.Eva Bartlett: “Israel was born of violence”.Why nuclear war is closer than ever: historian SERHII PLOKHY.

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES.Lucky Dip: Drone companies await spending bonanza as UK’s Defence Investment Plan (DIP) to be revealed.
A New Gold(en) Mine for Arms Contractors. Less for Health Care, More for the Pentagon.
North Korea says Seoul-US submarine deal will trigger ‘nuclear domino’ effect.
Japan edges towards hosting nuclear weapons.

November 23, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter | Leave a comment

This week’s non-corporate nuclear news

Some bits of good news – COP30 won’t save us, but China might. Egypt defeated an ancient disease. New forest fund shows promise at Cop30

TOP STORIES.

One month in, the ‘ceasefire’ in Gaza exists only in name.

Non Government Organisations Warn that Recent Executive Orders Would Harm Public Health, Disproportionately Impacting Women and Children.

Finally Some Accountability for Georgia’s Costly Nuclear Power Mistake.

Trump’s Ploy at the UN Is American Imperialism Masquerading as a Peace Process.
Michael Mann to Bill Gates: You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it.
US conducts its Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) test.
The remnants of Chernobyl are still present in the Black Sea.

Climate. US Oil Executives Flock to COP30. Fo ssil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says.

Noel’s notes. Why my work is clearly biased.

AUSTRALIA. The people and environment of South Australia must be protected from Federal imposed storage of AUKUS High-Level nuclear waste. Call for inquiry Into AUKUS nuclear subs.

Gareth Evans says Australia should lead nuclear arms control talks.

NUCLEAR ITEMS

CLIMATE. 6 main issues for COP 30 – and nuclear is no climate solution.
Rich countries have lost enthusiasm for tackling climate crisis, says Cop30 chief.

ECONOMICS.Legalising the theft of Russian assets.
Bechtel Chief Says U.S. Must Subsidize Trump’s Nuclear Revival.
Sizewell C. – Taxpayers likely to see ‘no return’ on £6.4bn public funds put in as equity

Marketing. EDF boss vows to speed up nuclear projects and narrow gap to Asian peers -ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/11/13/1-b1-edf-boss-vows-to-speed-up-nuclear-projects-and-narrow-gap-to-asian-peers/

EDUCATION.
Manchester launch for Labrats nuclear test education programme,

ENERGY.

Could SMRs add supply-side grid flexibility? – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/11/17/3-b1-could-smrs-add-supply-side-grid-flexibility/
Why should Scotland pay billions for nuclear when renewables exist? – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/11/16/3-b1-why-should-scotland-pay-billions-for-nuclear-when-renewables-exist/
Proposed solar farm could help make Island ‘centre of excellence’ – minister.
Zelensky blames ex-energy chief for failure to protect power grid– ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/11/13/2-b1-zelensky-blames-ex-energy-chief-for-failure-to-protect-power-grid/

ENVIRONMENT. Toxic plume from Los Alamos National Laboratory spreads to nearby pueblo.Lab Chromium Contamination Confirmed on San Ildefonso Pueblo Land..

HEALTH. NFLAs welcome Remembrance Day award of medal to nuke test ‘Sniffers’, but fight not over as groundcrews exposed to radiation remain forgotten.

HISTORY. Rare US Peace President: Warren G. Harding

LEGAL.Beyond Nuclear brings interim storage case back to Supreme Court.
Residents outraged as US nuclear plant gets greenlight to dump radioactive waste into major river: ‘Potential long-term consequences’.
Three firms to appear in court over Hinkley Point C death and serious injury incidents- (not radialogical)

MEDIA. Spoiler alert: deterrence doesn’t work.Golden Rule: The Journey for Peace – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhrSXF74SYo
BBC News Has a Long Record of Disinformation– But This Time It Chose the Wrong Target.

OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Rosyth councillor doesn’t want Trident submarines at yard.

POLITICS.The dark side of Zelenskyy’s rule. Zelensky – Embroiled in war and embattled at home.
Labour’s ‘national security threat’ attacks on Scottish National Party are hypocrisy 101.
Does Britain really need nuclear power?
Wales Green Party responds to new nuclear power plans.
UK’s New nuclear siting policy criticised by industry as ‘missed opportunity’.
The ‘weird’ catch to Labour’s ‘national security threat’ attack on the Scottish National Party- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/11/11/1-b1-the-weird-catch-to-labours-national-security-threat-attack-on-the-scottish-national-party/

Trump Bets Big on a Nuclear Comeback.
Invest in existing clean energy solutions, not nuclear fantasy– ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/11/14/invest-in-existing-clean-energy-solutions-not-nuclear-fantasy/
Nuclear power will get the most Energy Department loans, Chris Wright says.

Japan to consider allowing public funds for nuclear power industry, Nikkei says

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.
When it comes to New Start nuclear treaty….Trump just can’t get started.

Destroying Europe in order to save it: Extortion, theft, and the EU’s two disastrous choices. THE ELITE EURO SUICIDERS.

The Member States Complicit in Genocide (w/ Francesca Albanese) | The Chris Hedges Report.
US-Led ‘Coordination Center’ Replaces Israel as ‘Overseer’ of Gaza Aid Deliveries.

US Plans for China Blockade Continue Taking Shape.

Nuclear for Wylfa the wrong way to go. US ‘disappointed’ that Rolls-Royce will build UK’s first small modular reactors.
Atom is prematurely split in the ‘golden age’ transatlantic partnership.

SAFETY. Russia deliberately ‘endangering nuclear safety in Europe’ says Kyiv.
Belgium flounders as 5 drones buzz nuclear power plant. 3 drones reportedly spotted flying over Belgian nuclear power plant.

Los Alamos National Laboratory Reneges on Active Confinement Ventilation Systems at Plutonium Facility, PF-4.

SECRETS and LIES. AI Warlord”+: Eric Schmidt – Money, Media and Maim.

The Empire Only De-Escalates In One Area So It Can Escalate In Another, And Other Notes.

SPINBUSTER. AI Companies Are Encouraging Users To Believe Chatbots Are People, And It’s Insanely Creepy.
On The Rapidly Spreading Delusion That AI Chatbots Are Conscious.

TECHNOLOGY. Google on Christmas Island: Data Centres and Imminent Militarisation.

URANIUM. Declassified cable reinforces proliferation concerns about high-assay low-enriched uranium fuel (HALEU).

WASTES. New U.S. nuclear power boom begins with old, still-unsolved problem: What to do with radioactive waste. Decommissioning. Brian Goodall says no to next stage of submarine dismantling.

WAR and CONFLICT.
Is President Trump leading US to Vietnam style disaster in Venezuela?
A day of peace?
Ukraine accuses Russia of targeting its nuclear substations – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/11/11/1-b-1-ukraine-accuses-russia-of-targeting-its-nuclear-substations/
Ukraine facing widespread power cuts after generating capacity reduced to ‘zero’ by Russian attacks.

Trump stupidly brags about committing war crimes against Iran .

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES.
The Unseen Hand: From the War Room to the Ruins – A Cycle of Profit and Pain.
  Ukrainian substations hit in latest drone strike.
Stop the nuclear MADness
Poseidon: The Ultimate Weapon of Vengeance [i].

Hegseth Vows Wartime Footing For U.S. Weapons Production.
‘Gunboat Diplomacy’: U.S. War in Latin America Feared as Hegseth Launches ‘Operation Southern Spear’.
  US Again Flies Heavy Bombers Near Venezuela’s Coast.Nuclear Force

“Recapitalization”.Threats of nuclear testing ignore its terrifying history
‘Dangerous for humanity’: Nuclear testing truth exposed.US,

South Korea to ‘move forward’ on building nuclear-powered submarines.

November 17, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter | Leave a comment

This week’s Nuclear news – not from the military-industrial-political-media complex.

Some bits of good news –

Christiana Figueres: The global south is now leading the clean-energy revolution.

Mozambique has reached a milestone in women’s health, vaccinating nearly 3 million girls aged 12–18 against HPV.

Migratory Birds and Rice Farmers Are Helping Each Other Soar

TOP STORIES. The Gaza Laboratory: How War is Being Marketed and How the World is Fig

hting Back.

The rise of the US ‘digital-military-industrial complex’

Trump’s 20 point plan to end the war in Gaza is the usual Israeli ultimatum: surrender or be murdered.

Trump and the Deep State: The Tomahawk deadlock and the illusion of presidential autonomy.

Resuming U.S. Nuclear Tests Is Reckless and Dangerous, One Expert Says.

The Risky Movement to Make America Nuclear Again– (very long -but useful extracts at https://nuclear-news.net/2025/11/04/1-a-the-risky-movement-to-make-america-nuclear-again/

Who is paying for Britain’s nuclear revival?

The SMR boom will soon go bust.

Cheaper, greener power is on the way – ALSO AT https://antinuclear.net/2025/11/03/cheaper-greener-power-is-on-the-way/ Australia is getting free electricity – will other countries follow?

Climate. THE CORRUPTION OF COP30: DODGY CLIMATE DOSSIERS How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then kept drilling.

Six pieces of data that give hope for the future of the climate.

Noel’s note for today – When will the public in each country wake up? Governments don’t care – they’re happy to waste taxpayers money on things nuclear, and especially weaponry.

AUSTRALIA.

Subs base enigma– NSW Government doesn’t know what to hide or why.
Navi Pillay: Don’t be complicit in genocide Australia, warns former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Arms industry infiltrates National Press Club.
Australian uranium company loses Danish arbitration case.Nationals choose coal, nuclear and climate denial, as politics of delay threatens to kill another industry.
Coalition to look at coal subsidies, stick with nuclear. Free solar, nuclear cost blowouts, and “deadly negligence” on climate: A heady mix for the Coalition.
World’s biggest isolated grid hits new peak of 89 per cent renewables, led by rooftop solar.

NUCLEAR iTEMS

ATROCITIES. Israel Is Still Starving Gaza, And Other Notes.

CLIMATE. Can France’s nuclear legacy weather climate change?-ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/11/09/1-a-can-frances-nuclear-legacy-weather-climate-change/
Siting new nuclear at Oldbury deemed ‘problematic’ due to high level of flood risk -ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/11/08/1-b1-siting-new-nuclear-at-oldbury-deemed-problematic-due-to-high-level-of-flood-risk/

ECONOMICS.

Trump’s Westinghouse Nuclear Fiasco: Wasting Money on a Corrupt Game of Hot Potato.
The $17bn nuclear start-up without any revenue -and TRANSCRIPT– ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/11/08/1-b-the-17bn-nuclear-start-up-without-any-revenue/
Japan’s seismic history and the Westinghouse deal – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/11/04/1-b1-japans-seismic-history-and-the-westinghouse-deal/
Starmer, Macron, Merz…3 unwise leaders degrading their economies while destroying Ukraine.
The Biggest Single Contributor to the UN Budget is also the Biggest Single Defaulter.
“It is unacceptable that the EDF tariff reform is being adopted quietly, to the detriment of the users”- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/11/05/1-b1-it-is-unacceptable-that-the-edf-tariff-reform-is-being-adopted-quietly-to-the-detriment-of-the-users/
EDF Braces for More Delays at UK Hinkley Point Nuclear Project. Bpifrance helps UK nuclear reactor to financial close – ASO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/11/08/1-b1-bpifrance-helps-uk-nuclear-reactor-to-financial-close/
Canadian government happily splashing tax-payers’ money on wasteful things nuclear.

EMPLOYMENT. Fears raised that specialist Vulcan MoD work could shift to Sellafield

ENVIRONMENT. Nuclear Tests and Their Legacy of Harms in Asia-Pacific.The Silicon Thirst: When Data Drinks the World Dry.

EVENTS. 19th and 20th November – Online Event- Holding the Memories: Communities Leading the Fight for Nuclear Archival Justice

HEALTH. The men who stared at mushroom clouds .

MEDIA. Atomic testing must not resume.YouTube deletes hundreds of videos documenting Israeli war crimes.

OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . No to Nuclear, Yes to Renewables for Wales. Going Nuclear Free: The Early History of the Nuclear Free Local Authorities.

PERSONAL STORIES. Israel Still Controls Over Half of Gaza — Including the Rubble of My Home.

PLUTONIUM. Los Alamos National Laboratory Prioritizes Plutonium “Pit” Bomb Core Production Over Safety.Some 890 tons of Tepco nuclear fuel kept at Aomori reprocessing plant.

POLITICS

The US Empire Keeps Getting Creepier.
The Nastiest Warmongers Are Trump’s Biggest Fans Now.
How could the US restart nuclear weapons testing?- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/11/05/1-b-how-could-the-us-restart-nuclear-weapons-testing/ Donald Trump’s alarming muddle about nuclear-weapons testing.
Hegseth to Congress: “I have no idea…”
Pentagon Tells Congress It Doesn’t Know Who It’s Killing in Latin American Boat Strikes.
Governments’ Financial Support for New Nuclear Developments in Canada.
British Nuclear Jets Programme Costs ‘Unrealistic’ – CND.
UK Government rapped as billions unaccounted for in nuclear spending– ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/11/07/1-b1-uk-government-rapped-as-billions-unaccounted-for-in-nuclear-spending/ Scottish
National Party reject UK Government’s ‘nonsense’ national security threat smear- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/11/08/1-b1-scottish-national-party-reject-uk-governments-nonsense-national-security-threat-smear/

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.

The Deal That Never Was: Washington Proposed, Moscow Agreed – and Trump Blocked It.
Putin considers nuclear tests after Trump threat. Russia urges Trump administration to clarify ‘contradictory’ signals on nuclear testing . Trump doubles down on nuclear tests as Russia issues warning. Trump, Putin, and Nuclear Arms Diplomacy. Trump’s Threat to Resume Nuclear Testing.
China denies nuclear testing, calls on US to maintain moratorium.
Francesca Albanese names over 60 states complicit in Gaza genocide.
Trump’s bet on US nuclear buildout ropes in Japan– ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/11/05/1-b1-trumps-bet-on-us-nuclear-buildout-ropes-in-japan/
Brussels attempts to sink Europe in debt to help Zelensky.

SAFETY. IAEA chief condemns Trump’s nuclear test plan. Trump’s Big Nuclear Reactor Push Raises Safety Concerns.

Remediation work through £4.6bn Sellafield framework. Officials launch investigation after hazardous incident at shut-down nuclear plant: ‘Deeply concerning’.

SECRETS and LIES. The AI Drones Used In Gaza Now Surveilling American Cities.

TECHNOLOGY. Artificial Intelligence Is Making Everything Dumber

URANIUM. Don’t fuel Riyadh’s nuclear weapons cravings

WASTES
Nuclear waste removal under way at silo.
Decommissioning.EDF’s plan to decommission Hinkley Point B approved despite regulator’s concerns. Hinkley Point B to begin 95-year decommissioning plan.
UK’s nuclear waste problem lacks a coherent plan.
Radioactive waste from Canada would be buried in Utah under EnergySolutions proposal.
The iodine-129 paradox in nuclear waste management strategies.

WAR and CONFLICT.

Hegseth Declines To Say Whether the US Is Planning To Bomb Venezuela. US amassing 16,000 troops off Venezuelan coast – Washington Post.

The moment of truth: The West confronts Russian military advances.

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES.

‘Nothing revolutionary’ about Russia’s nuclear-powered missile: Experts .
Experts: Full nuclear weapons tests would backfire on US . Rusting nuclear facilities hamper Trump’s plans for new tests. Trump’s testing plans for US nuclear weapons won’t include explosions, energy secretary says. Donald Trump’s Nuclear Announcement Sparks Alarm: ‘He Is Misinformed’ Teasing the Armageddon Fanciers: Trump’s Announcement on Nuclear Testing.
US Army wants to deploy small nuclear power plants. What will the UK do in a new nuclear arms race?
The UK’s £1 billion Thank You to Uncle Sam. Ministry of Defence still unclear on cost of RAF nuclear jet plan, MPs say. UK Nuclear Armed Fighter Jets.
IAEA chief says Iran still capable of building nuclear weapons.

November 10, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter | Leave a comment

Nuclear news – not from the military-industrial-political-media complex

Some bits of good news – Israel-Palestine: the bereaved parents bringing hope to a divided land. The Country Making Orphanages Obsolete.

Quarter Century of Collecting Seeds From Around the World Safeguards Them From ExtinctionTOP STORIES

. Trump Is Moving Relentlessly Toward Illegal War in Venezuela.
It’s Not a Ballroom- It’s a Bunker.
Trump Is Very Confused About Nuclear Weapons.
What Ends the SMR Bubble?

The Next Nuclear Renaissance?
New Radiation Protection Standards in 2026?
Stabilizing the U.S.-China Rivalry.
Israel and US Scorn ICJ Ruling Against Starving Civilians as Method of Warfare.

Climate. ‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head

Noel’s notes. Right wing- Left wing – on the nuclear issue it doesn’t matter

AUSTRALIA.

We should never have agreed to AUKUS. “Mr President, take our critical minerals“: Albanese in the White House. Has Trump set Australia up for a rare earths price war with China?
Are Our Priorities Wrong? Defence Spending vs Real Needs.
Australia fiddles with fossil gas while the country swelters in record heat. It doesn’t make sense.
Australian Conservation Foundation responds to Labor’s Environment Protection Agency announcement.

NUCLEAR ITEMS

ATROCITIES. ‘Groundhog Day’: Israel Breaks Ceasefire to Attack Gaza, Killing 104 People, Including 46 Children.

ARTS and CULTURE. What we should be talking about after watching Bigelow’s ‘A House of Dynamite’ nuclear thriller.

ECONOMICS. Trump cuts Westinghouse reactors deal. South Carolina’s state utility says private firm set to restart abandoned $9 billion nuclear project.
America’s $80bn nuclear reactor fleet exposes Sizewell C costs. also at https://nuclear-news.net/2025/10/30/1-b1-americas-80bn-nuclear-reactor-fleet-exposes-sizewell-c-costs/
Buzz around nuclear shows the hole that [?]green shipping is in.
Golden Dome funding lags as industry partners line up.

EMPLOYMENT. Nuclear construction workers plan third strike.
Fears raised that specialist Vulcan MoD work could shift to Sellafield
Furloughing Workers for Armageddon: Trump, Nuclear Weapons and the NNSA.

ENVIRONMENT. Leaked document reveals Amazon deliberately planned to hide data centers’ full water use.

ETHICS and RELIGION. The Voices of Many Jews.

HUMAN RIGHTS. UN Human Rights Office Warns Israeli Settler Violence in West Bank Is “Surging”.
It’s Just Wall-To-Wall News Stories About The US And Its Allies Abusing The World.

MEDIA. Western Media Use ‘Peace’ Prize to Fuel War Propaganda.As Millions March Against Fascism, NYT Warns Against Progressives.Is a worldwide nuclear holocaust closer than ever?Radioactive Governance,

OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Furious French fairies challenge nuclear plans.

PLUTONIUM. Members of Congress object to plutonium giveaway. Roll up, roll up for your free plutonium

POLITICS. Trump’s push to uphold Gaza ceasefire is creating a political crisis in Israel.
UK – MPs ‘deeply concerned’ about government’s proposed new nuclear siting policy Miliband starts fight with SNP over deploying new nuclear in Scotland. Why Scotland’s energy future shouldn’t be about nuclear.
Bechtel boss urges US government to share risk of nuclear build-out .

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.
Donald Trump’s nuclear testing order sparks pushback from Russia, China and the UN.Yanis Varoufakis & Grace Blakeley: Why Everything Feels Broken.
Iran, Russia, China question IAEA’s mandate after end of UN resolution.
No signs of suspicious work at bombed Iranian sites, IAEA chief says.

RADIATION. Dounreay waste particle ‘most radioactive’ find for three years.Three workers at nuclear fuel reprocessing plant possibly internally exposed to radiation.

SAFETY. How Russia is risking nuclear catastrophe with attempts to syphon power from Ukraine’s biggest plant.
Google joins Microsoft in plans to restart US nuclear plants to power AI infrastructure.

SECRETS and LIES. Hi-Tech Holocaust: How Microsoft Aids The Gaza Genocide.
How North Korea outsmarts US intelligence agencies—and what they should do to adapt/

SPINBUSTER. The hidden military pressures behind the new push for small nuclear reactors.
Nuclear power in Scotland would have same problems as fossil fuels–

TECHNOLOGY. Capitalism Is Shoving AI Down Our Throats Because It Can’t Give Us What We Actually Want.

WASTES. Escalating nuclear waste disposal cost leads senior MP to demand ‘coherent’ plan.
Decommissioning. Germany destroys two nuclear plant cooling towers as part of nuclear phaseout plan.
Nuclear waste plan turns neighbor against neighbor in a struggling Japanese fishing village.
Early engagement launched on £360m nuclear waste capping scheme

WAR and CONFLICT
Biden hands off the Ukraine war to Trump…who now owns it.
The anti-Russia, pre-SMO, Timeline of Which Legacy Media Won’t Speak.

US Deploying Aircraft Carrier Strike Group Near Venezuela as Regime Change Push Heats Up. Trump a shameful Double Ace in obliterating small, unarmed boats on the high seas.

Trump’s ‘peace plan’ traps Gaza in limbo. Trump backs renewed Israeli strikes in Gaza. Report: Israel Launched Airstrike in Gaza on Saturday After Getting US Approval
The Russia-Ukraine War – Security Lessons.
The threat of nuclear Armageddon.

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES.
If the US resumes nuclear weapons testing, this would be extremely dangerous for humanity.
ATOMIC BLACKMAIL? The Weaponisation of Nuclear Facilities During the Russia-Ukraine War.

Pentagon orders USS Gerald R. Ford into Caribbean, first carrier sent to region.
Israel’s AI use in Gaza potentially normalizes civilian killings, obscures blame, exposes Big Tech complicity: Expert.

The experts respond to Trump’s proposal to “start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis” Trump to reduce tariffs on Beijing amid resumed US nuclear weapons testing order.

The UK is at risk of a nuclear attack as the US is set to house nuclear weapons in Suffolk, England, which would make the country a target in a US and Russia war
US President Donald Trump says South Korea has approval to build nuclear-powered submarine. Donald Trump says South Korea can build nuclear-powered submarines in US-ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2016/03/28/87605/

November 1, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter | Leave a comment

This week: Much non-corporate nuclear and related news

Some bits of good news –

China’s air quality policies have swiftly reduced pollution, improved life expectancy.

Green sea turtle saved from extinction in major conservation victory.

Quiet Revolution: Education in Vietnam Drives Poverty Reduction

TOP STORIES. Gaza to become a tax-free ‘billionaire haven’ according to Jared Kushner and Zionist billionaires.

Why Tony Blair governing Gaza would result in more war crimes.

Trump orders CIA to attack Venezuela: US military kills innocent people in war based on lies. Why hasn’t Trump been arrested for mass premeditated murder in the Caribbean?

Tomahawks, Raytheon, and Zelensky’s $90 billion shopping list at the White House.

European leaders are unable to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia yet unwilling to face the political consequences of peace in Ukraine.

Straight from the horses’ mouths: Nuclear is a dead end.
Moscow puts money on the table to raise nuclear subs from Arctic seabed.

Climate. World’s oceans losing their greenness through global heating, study finds. Coral die-off marks Earth’s first climate ‘tipping point’, scientists say. Climate disasters in first half of 2025 costliest ever on record, research shows. UN CLIMATE TALKS -Revealed: Only a third of national climate pledges support ‘transition away from fossil fuels’ .

AUSTRALIA.

All the way with Donald J. – Albo supporting mass murder.
AUKUS. Deal of the century! … For the Americans.AUKUS proves why Australia is no longer a middle power with sovereignty and autonomy.AUKUS: Revolving door, spiralling down. Australia to make next billion-dollar AUKUS payment ‘shortly’, says minister. Desperately seeking submariners: why keeping nuclear-powered boats afloat will be Australia’s biggest Aukus challenge.
Unconstitutional “evil”. Albo’s plan for more government secrecy.
Chris Hedges talks with Dave about journalism, censorship and empire. Inchoate Blobs: The National Press Club Cancels Chris Hedges.
Trump’s public snub of Kevin Rudd leaves Albanese in an awkward spot.
Could Australia’s trash become Donald Trump’s treasure? Turning our waste into critical minerals.
US, Australia sign rare earths deal as
Trump promises nuclear-powered attack submarines.

NUCLEAR-RELATED ITEMS

ARTS and CULTURE. The madness of Trump’s vision for America.‘
You and the Atom Bomb’: how George Orwell’s 1945 essay predicted the Cold War and nuclear proliferation.

ATROCITIES. Vaunted Trump Ceasefire? – Israel has a genocidal Palestinian ethnic cleansing to complete.
Israeli soldiers reveal thousands of tons of aid ‘buried, burned’ in Gaza as famine took over strip.
They Said The Massacres Would Stop When The Hostages Were Released- They Haven’t Stopped.
Fascist Israeli minister Smotrich calls Gaza genocide a “real estate bonanza”.

ECONOMICS.

ED MILIBAND’S NUCLEAR NIGHTMARES.
Deloitte to pay $34mn over audit work on US nuclear fiasco- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/10/20/3-b1-deloitte-to-pay-34mn-over-audit-work-on-us-nuclear-fiasco/
Inside Oklo: the $20bn nuclear start-up without any revenue – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/10/25/2-b1-inside-oklo-the-20bn-nuclear-start-up-without-any-revenue/
Livret A: Will part of French savings soon be used to finance nuclear power? – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/10/21/1-b1-livret-a-will-part-of-french-savings-soon-be-used-to-finance-nuclear-power/
Interest growing in nuclear-powered shipping, BUT – high costs and the nuclear WASTE problem.

EMPLOYMENT. Trump Furloughs Top Nuclear Weapons Staff (What Could Go Wrong?)
Fears raised that specialist Vulcan MoD work could shift to Sellafield

ENERGY. After Spain’s blackout, critics blamed renewable energy- It’s part of a bigger attack.
Reward scheme for using less power at peak times could help lower US bills.
Bristol Airport generates record amount of renewable energy.

ENVIRONMENT. Israel’s Untold Environmental Genocide.

ETHICS and RELIGION. They Tell Us To Fear Muslims While The US Empire Terrorizes The World.
Criminalising an idea: the dangerous fiction of “ANTIFA, the organisation”.
It is now antisemitic to object to Israeli football hooligans causing violence in your city.

LEGAL. International Court of Justice Finds Israelis Broke Law by Starving Palestinians of Gaza.

MEDIA. To Media, Gaza Ceasefire Holds Despite Repeated Israeli Strikes.
Pentagon Creates New Legion of PR Toadies.
Western Media Use ‘Peace’ Prize to Fuel War Propaganda.
The power (and fun) of protest!

OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Tireless advocacy delivers victory.
Request for an Immediate Stop to the Transportation of Radioactive Waste to Chalk River.

POLITICS.

The Trump Administration’s Military Occupation of America.
Senate should invoke War Powers Act to prevent Trump invasion of Venezuela. Trump says he will inform Congress of plans to strike land-based cartel targets in Venezuela.
The Palestinian Authority may become a casualty of the Trump plan and the new Western consensus.
UK Government planning for nuclear power in Scotland in anticipation of a Labour 2026 victory. UK Government look at bypassing SNP amid block on ‘billion pound’ nuclear investment. A Genuinely Just Transition: Kill Off Sizewell C – Shaft Reform UK. Parliamentary Committee calls for clear direction on Oldbury and Wylfa, and a “one-stop shop” to finally overcome excessive cost and delays in deployment of nuclear energy.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. Trump-Zelensky meeting was ‘bad’ – Axios.

PLUTONIUM. US offers nuclear energy companies access to weapons-grade plutonium -ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/10/25/2-b-1-us-offers-nuclear-energy-companies-access-to-weapons-grade-plutonium/

SAFETY. Local ‘ceasefire’ area declared at Ukrainian nuclear plant for damage repairs.Incidents. Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws.NRC: Individual fell into ‘reactor cavity’ at Palisades Nuclear Plant

SECRETS and LIES. Gaza ceasefire is an illusion – starvation and killings still continuing. Why there can be no peace for Palestinians.

The Great Narco Pretext: Trump Readies for Regime Change in Venezuela.

The Rise of the Thielverse and the Construction of the Surveillance State (w/ Whitney Webb) – The Chris Hedges Report.

SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. Mainers will not benefit from coastal rocket launch sites .

SPINBUSTER. NUCLEAR MISINFORMATION.

TECHNOLOGY. Amazon spills plan to nuke Washington…with X-Energy mini-reactors.

WASTES. Russia to Raise Cold War Nuclear Submarines From Arctic—What’s Hiding on the Seabed? Radioactivity and nuclear waste under scrutiny in Peskotomuhkati homeland .

The Bloc Québécois is calling for an immediate halt to the transfer of radioactive waste to Chalk River, on the shores of the drinking water source for millions of Quebecers – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/10/21/1-b1-the-bloc-quebecois-is-calling-for-an-immediate-halt-to-the-transfer-of-radioactive-waste-to-chalk-river-on-the-shores-of-the-drinking-water-source-for-millions-of-quebecers/

True cost of UK’s nuclear waste disposal facility £15bn higher than recent Treasury figures

WAR and CONFLICT.Gaza Officials Say Israel Has Violated Ceasefire 80 Times in First 10 Days. Israel Launches Wave of Heavy Airstrikes Across Gaza, Killing at Least 45.

Trump furious War Chief Hegseth didn’t kill all on Venezuelan boat No. 6 he sent to Davy Jones Locker. A US Strike in Caribbean Leaves Survivors, Reports Say.

Slouching Towards Peace. Ukraine Says It Struck a Chemical Plant Inside Russia With British-Provided Storm Shadow Missiles.
EU and Ukraine to offer Trump ‘peace plan’ with no territorial concessions – Bloomberg.

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. Trump: “Thank you so much, Bibi, Excellent work.”
Pay attention to the nuclear threat on our doorsteps.
Trump rejects Zelensky on Tomahawks, but Washington’s war lobby refuses to “lose”.

October 27, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter | Leave a comment

News that’s not from the nuclear-military-industrial-political-complex

Some bits of good news.
An English wind farm became a marine habitat. China’s air quality policies have swiftly reduced pollution, improved life expectancy

TOP STORIES

The Trumpanyahu Administration Is Already Sabotaging The Ceasefire. Chris Hedges: Trump’s Sham Peace Plan. Will Trump’s ceasefire plan really lead to lasting peace in the Middle East?– There’s still a long way to go.

‘WHAT WILL JESUS SAY?’- TONY BLAIR, BIG TECH AND THE ISRAEL CONNECTION.

Nobel Peace Prize winner supports Israel’s genocide & Trump’s war on Venezuela – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks9uDtd7Msc

Trump to Zelensky…’I haven’t got a weapon to spare’ – https://www.youtube.com/shorts/22IP2SaWxy8

President Trump’s radical attack on radiation safety.

Climate. Antarctica may have crossed a tipping point that leads to rising seas. Global climate crosses more dangerous tipping points, heading for ecosystem collapse.

Long nuclear articles – Birth defects in the Chernobyl Region. Nuclear Power in Canada. “Cumulative effects of radioactivity from Fukushima on the abundance and biodiversity of birds”.

AUSTRALIA.

Trump’s Gaza peace move raises questions over AUKUS priorities.
Australian Politicians Ignore Israel’s Brutality Against Our Citizens.
Inside Australia’s covert F-35 parts pipeline to Israel.
Zionists v Keane, Riemer, Kostakidis – Australia’s massive test cases for free speech. Free speech questioned as National Press Club cancels Gaza address.
Australia Peace and Neutrality: A Path to Regional Stability.
How overseas allies can peacefully help Americans access the truth.
AUKUS Anxiety.

NUCLEAR ITEMS

ART and CULTURE. The play’s the thing. “A House of Dynamite”: Battling a nuclear nightmare – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wpw2QHJNco

ATROCITIES. More Than 200 Bodies Dug Out of the Gaza Rubble Since Ceasefire Went Into Effect. Israeli Soldiers Torched Food, Homes, and a Critical Sewage Treatment Plant in the Wake of Ceasefire Announcement. Israel Returns Palestinian Prisoners’ Bodies With ‘Signs of Torture, Mutilation, and Execution’ Palestinians freed from Israeli prison denied reunion with families as Trump claims a ‘forever’ peace.

Israel Tortured And Sexually Humiliated Greta Thunberg.,

ECONOMICS.

UK small businesses and charities say nuclear levy could add thousands to bills.
After robbing EU taxpayers, Zelensky uses blackmail to get inside the Bloc.
‘It’s going to be really bad’: Fears over AI bubble bursting grow in Silicon Valley. The Troubling Data on Data Centers.
Nuclear stocks mixed after U.S. Army launches program to deploy small reactors.

EDUCATION. Exposed! The University of Sheffield’s role in Britain’s nuclear weapons.

EMPLOYMENT. Key US nuclear agency to send 80% of workforce home as shutdown drags on. Italy’s Second General Strike for Gaza Brought 2 Million Workers into the Streets.

ENERGY. ‘Solar for All’ should mean just that. Why big tech’s nuclear plans could blow up. How productivity gains could slash energy demand by a quarter by 2050.

ENVIRONMENT. Boldness is needed to take on toxicity of nuclear power – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/10/13/1-b1-boldness-is-needed-to-take-on-toxicity-of-nuclear-power/

ETHICS and RELIGION. PATRICK LAWRENCE: Let Us Now Bury the Truth (Again).

EVENTS.
URGENT ACTION NEEDED to Help Protect the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board! International Repair Day 2025 will focus on software obsolescence

HEALTH. Radiation. Generational RADIATION IMPACT Project

HUMAN RIGHTS. The 9,100 Palestinians left behind in Israeli prisons after the ‘peace’ deal

LEGAL. NFLAs join European anti nuclear groups in urging appeal in taxonomy case.

MEDIA.

Palestinians’ Fate: Victims of Genocide While Alive, Vastly Uncounted By the Media When They Are Killed.
From AI to TikTok to TV, This Pro-Israel Billionaire Is Expanding Power in US.
Chicago Tribune avoids giving Donald Trump “great credit” for enabling Israeli genocide in Gaza for 9 months.
Can Pro-Israel Billionaires Succeed by Buying More US Media Platforms?
Media Refuse To Sign Up As Propagandists For Trump’s Pentagon.
Our world is combustible’: Kathryn Bigelow on AI, Andy Warhol and nuclear Armageddon

OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR [and to allied technologies]. Campaigners warn of ‘dangerous experiment’ as nuclear plans face backlash.

Mainers: you have a chance to nip this Wiscasset data center idea in the bud.

They Fought Amazon’s $3.6B AI Data Center.

POLITICS.
Trump Keeps Admitting That He Is Bought And Owned By The World’s Richest Israeli
MAGA Melts Down Over Trump Giving Qatar a Military Base in U.S.

Labour investing in nuclear due to fear of Scottish independence– ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/10/14/2-b1-labour-investing-in-nuclear-due-to-fear-of-scottish-independence/
‘Scotland will not be UK’s nuclear playground’, says Kate Forbes.
Exempt charities from nuclear levy on energy bills, UK government is urged.

The not-so-secret history of Netanyahu’s support for Hamas.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.
Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé: Despite Ceasefire, Palestinians Still Face “Elimination, Genocide
Israeli Government Votes to Implement Trump Peace Plan for Gaza as Hamas Pledges to Uphold It .
Yemen’s Houthis To ‘Monitor’ Israel Compliance With Gaza Ceasefire Deal.

Peace in the Middle East and the defeat in Ukraine will prove extremely embarrassing for Britain.

Worlds Extinguished: Hostage Returns, Central Casting and the Gaza Ceasefire.
Moniz’s Proposal for a Regional Nuclear Consortium with Iran.
Monique Barbut, Minister for Ecological Transition, raises doubts among nuclear industry– ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/10/17/1-b1-monique-barbut-minister-for-ecological-transition-raises-doubts-among-nuclear-industry/

Outsized and Eccentric: The Farce Behind the Nobel Peace Prize.
The Nobel that wasn’t Trump’s: Why Oslo chose a Venezuelan rebel over a peacemaker.

SAFETY. Gravelines: the Safety Expertise Department of ASNR’s damning opinion calls into question the EPR2 – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/?p=320225
Be prepared: Time to consider emergency planning at Llynfi nuclear site.

Work to restore link to Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant begins this week, Russian official says. The UN nuclear watchdog seeks a local truce to restore power to the Zaporizhzhia plant.

SECRETS and LIES. How Jared Kushner Played Trump to Grease Own Pocket: Wolff. Democratic lawmakers request probe into Jared Kushner after Reuters Saudi report.
Samantha Power secretly colluded with Israel to enhance UN role, leaked emails show.
Nobel Peace Prize winner supports Israel’s genocide & Trump’s war on Venezuela.
Grossi says progress made on restoring Zaporizhzhia power.
The £1m man: why did Boris Johnson take his donor to Ukraine?

SPINBUSTER. Idle boasts and blatant lies: Debunking Trump’s egregious distortions in Knesset speech.
Small reactors, big problems: the nuclear mirage behind AI’s energy hype.

TECHNOLOGY. Nuclear: Flamanville EPR unable to resolve all its technical problems.

WASTES.
Decommissioning. The astronomic costs of decommissioning Sellafield .
TEPCO weighs scrapping 2 reactors at Niigata nuclear power plant .
Holtec Backs Down, Reveals Achilles’ Heel For U.S. Nuclear Resurgence.
The end of support for Windows 10 is creating an e-waste disaster.

WAR and CONFLICT. Israeli Officials Are Openly Saying They Plan To Resume Attacks On Gaza. Israeli Defense Minister Says IDF Will Destroy Gaza Tunnels Once Hamas Releases Israeli Captives.

Trump Says He’s Mulling Land Strikes On Venezuela, Confirms CIA Covert Ops. Trump’s military escalation against Venezuela repeats the Iraq War blueprint.

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES.
Trump downplays hopes he will supply Ukraine with US missiles after meeting with Zelenskyy.
Putin and Trump, between the war of deadly Tomahawks and the peace of disarmament “START 3″ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/10/15/2-b1-putin-and-trump-between-the-war-of-deadly-tomahawks-and-the-peace-of-disarmament-start-3/

Japan Weighs Nuclear-Powered Submarines Amid Regional Tensions.

October 19, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter | Leave a comment

This week’s non-corporate nuclear news

Some bits of good news

Nigeria launches its largest-ever public health campaign, aiming to immunise around 106 million children against measles, rubella and polio by early 2026.

Dr. Jane Goodall leaves behind her last words. Hope for Wildlife – 150 Species Begin to Recover Across England.

TOP STORIES

When Maria Corina Machado Wins the Nobel Peace Prize, “Peace” Has Lost Its Meaning.

Gaza Deal Requires A Permanent End To Israel’s War on Gaza. Beware Trump’s Ceasefire Deal Absent Meaningful UN Action to Halt Israel’s Genocide.

Putin’s UnPeaceful Atom.

Trump warns of new strikes if Iran revives nuclear work.

Trump dreams of nuclear as he axes grid projects. The LAST American President- Got democracy?

German Nuclear Operator’s Insolvency Could Shift Dismantling Costs to Taxpayers.

New nuclear push brings old dangers back — and bigger than ever’

Climate. ‘Humanitarian’ visa must be created for Pacific Islanders displaced by climate crisis, experts say. The before and after images showing glaciers vanishing before our eyes

Noel’s notes Vladimir Putin and a world without Russia.

AUSTRALIA.

The National Press Club of Australia, Caving to the Israel Lobby, Cancels My Talk on Our Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists.
View from The Hill: Two years of a distant war have brought much damage to Australian society.
A crack in the AUKUS public relations pressure hull! ‘Folly’ of nuclear submarines plan floated.
Coalition committed to nuclear.
Australian Capital Territory went first and fastest to 100 per cent renewables: It now looks like the smartest policy of all. South Australia unveils first auction as world’s most advanced renewables grid seeks long duration storage.

Long nuclear articles:

Aspermy, sperm quality and radiation in Chernobyl birds
“Life cycle energy and greenhouse gas emissions of nuclear energy: A review” by Yash Baheti
“Norio Hirai “I Want You to Know What a Nuclear Power Plant Is“” by Yasuo Akai

NEWS ITEMS

ARTS and CULTURE. The Total Trumpification of America.

ATROCITIES. After 2 years, Israel genocidal ethnic cleansing of Gaza has failed.

CIVIL LIBERTIES. Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’-ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/10/11/3-b1-billionaire-larry-ellison-says-a-vast-ai-fueled-surveillance-system-can-ensure-citizens-will-be-on-their-best-behavior/

ECONOMICS. Inside JPMorgan’s Investment Bank, Nuclear Hype Raises Concerns. US and investors gambling on unproven nuclear technology, warn experts – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/10/07/2-b1-inside-jpmorgans-investment-bank-nuclear-hype-raises-concerns/Ukraine has just generated another cash sink for Western taxpayers. EDF Weighs Edison IPO To Boost Nuclear Expansion Funding.

EDUCATION. University of Stirling hosts Hiroshima and Nagasaki exhibition.

EMPLOYMENT. Workers shut down Italy again in solidarity with Palestine. Sellafield nuclear workers to strike over pay.

ENERGY.World Nuclear Industry Status Report Energy overview- a nuclear dead end?Flamanville EPR: EDF anticipates limited power until 2031.Data Centers PILLAGE ELECTRICITY For AI Video Slop.Poll suggests most Reform UK voters back investment in renewable energy

ENVIRONMENT. Water. 45K gallons of radioactive water to be dumped into Hudson River from Indian Point nuclear plant. RADIOACTIVE material was accidentally released at Scotland’s Dounreay nuclear.

ETHICS and RELIGION. In its 250th year, America’s genocide support has forever destroyed its worldwide moral authority.

MEDIA. The Wall Street Journal Has Many Ways to Deny Genocide. UK Parliament blocks Declassified, citing our Gaza ‘standpoint’.Book: No To Nuclear – Why Nuclear Power Destroys Lives, Derails Climate Progress, and Provokes War.The People versus Murdoch: the rise of independent media.

OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Nuclear victims hold global forum in Hiroshima. Arrests as protesters target Christchurch aerospace summit.

PERSONAL STORIES. Donald Trump’s battle for relevance.

PLUTONIUM. U.S. Dept. of Energy steps up plutonium pit manufacturing at Savannah River Site. 1000s of nuclear bombs? – Russia exits US nuke pact to reclaim 34 tons of plutonium.

POLITICS. After “Greater Israel,” Netanyahu calls for a “Super-Sparta” and “finishing the job in Gaza”.Right-wing Czech politician who promised to cut aid to Ukraine takes lead in parliamentary election .Boosting Nuclear Power Is Not Nation-Building.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. Nobel Peace Prize’s hypocrisy.
What we know about the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire and what comes next. The Gaza ceasefire deal could be a ‘strangle contract’, with Israel holding all the cards. Trump Says Israel and Hamas ‘Signed Off on the First Phase’ of Gaza Plan. Everything Before AND After October 7 Explains Why October 7 Happened. . Hamas just accepted Trump’s ‘peace’ plan – Here’s what it didn’t accept. Support of Trump’s Gaza peace plan ignores major flaw.

Patrick Lawrence: Power and Justice. Israel illegally detained UK citizens, and Starmer did nothing.For Haecho and the global citizens aboard the humanitarian flotillas’ safe return and for a Free Palestine!

Trump Swears At Netanyahu As Israel’s Standing in the U.S. Continues to Decline.

Grossi: Iran Is Not Seeking Nuclear Weapons; My Report Did Not Trigger the Attack. Iran says nuclear cooperation with IAEA ‘no longer relevant’.

Back to Great Power Rivalry and Nuclear Risk as Russia Quits US Plutonium Pact.
Kremlin welcomes Trump’s comments to extend nuclear arms pact. Trump says Putin’s offer on nuclear arms control ‘sounds like a good idea’.

Peace Without Denuclearisation? – Kim Challenges U.S. To Rethink Nuclear Stance.

SAFETY. Russian Nuke Plant Latest To Suffer War-Inflicted Damage.Is Russia’s Putin gambling with the safety of Ukraine’s nuclear stations? Nuclear disaster fears as expert highlights ‘fragile’ Zaporizhzhia power plant system.Another ageing Royal Navy nuclear-armed submarine completes a 200-day patrol amid fears absence of replacements will make epic voyages ‘the new normal’

SECRETS and LIES. The Israeli media is reporting on a ‘secret clause’ in the Gaza ceasefire deal that no one is talking about.Not surprising: Biden hid report on Ukraine scandal, docs reveal.

SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. Peace is Possible – The Weaponization of Space with Bruce Gagnon.

SPINBUSTER. They Really Think They’ll Be Able To Propagandize The World Into Liking Israel Again.

TECHNOLOGY. Can AI Solve the Nuclear Fusion Energy Puzzle?

WASTES. Holtec abandons nuclear waste project in New Mexico.

WAR and CONFLICT. Israel Attacks Another Group of Civilian Ships Bound for Gaza. 5 Days in Israel’s Desert Prison: Jewish Flotilla Activist David Adler on Harrowing Detention Ordeal – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_pM-ZDaPAA
Israel Says No Gaza Ceasefire in Place Despite Trump’s Call for a Stop to the Bombing.Report: Netanyahu Ordered Drone Attack on Gaza Aid Flotilla Boats in Tunisia.
Panic in Israel as Hamas agrees to release all of the hostages.I
srael Droned Flotilla Activists And Then Abused Greta Thunberg.
Hegseth Says Four ‘Narco-Terrorists’ Killed in Latest US Attack on Venezuela Boat.

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. The case for some non-nuclear submarines.UK aerospace firm supplying Israel’s defence ministry.A Philadelphia company’s obscured support for killing Palestinians with autonomous flying bombs.

October 12, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter | Leave a comment

A big week in the non-corporate nuclear news

Some bits of good news –UNESCO Adds an Area the Size of Bolivia to Reserves That Protect 5%of the World’s Land.Marshall Islands Experience Explosion of Wildlife One Year After Invasive Rats Were Removed.

Thousands–Including Many Visitors– Volunteer in Taiwan to Help Flood Victims Following Typhoon.

Swiping less, living more. How to take control of your digital life.

TOP STORIES The U.S. is now a fascist state. What Trump’s new order on domestic terrorism really means – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKvBzvVYlKw
Theatre of the absurd – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlXPfKAAnUo

A breakdown of Tony Blair’s bizarre proposal to run Gaza. Israeli Defense Minister says half a million Palestinians in Gaza City will be considered ‘terrorists’ if they don’t evacuate.

Trump says Israel can ‘finish the job’ in Gaza if Hamas rejects latest ceasefire plan.

“Arrest the War Criminal”: Thousands Protest Netanyahu in NYC as He Addresses U.N –https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVY7eY12voI

The New Nuclear Fever, Debunked.

From the archives. Leah McGrath Goodman, Tony Blair and issues on torture (with added radiation)

Climate. Small or big, new nuclear reactors are not climate solutions. Does the fight against climate change need nuclear power?

AUSTRALIA. Dan Tehan fails to grasp difference between baseload and firming as he spouts nonsense on nuclear. Nuclear energy sank the Coalition at the election — can it power their comeback? Coalition in ‘overwhelming agreement’ on nuclear future, energy spokesman says. Nuclear energy to remain a central focus for Coalition. Deputy leader Ted O’Brien confident nuclear will be part of Coalition’s energy policy.

NUCLEAR ITEMS

CIVIL LIBERTIES. Under Trump, Criticism Is Now Criminal.

Israel Raids Global Sumud Flotilla, Abducts Over 400 Volunteers, Group Says.

CLIMATE. Does the fight against climate change need nuclear power? Wildfires are getting deadlier and costing more. Experts warn they’re becoming unstoppable..

ECONOMICS. A hungrier, poorer and more anxious Iran awaits ‘snapback’ of UN sanctions over its nuclear program.
Wall Street Warns of Nuclear Tech Bubble.
Newcleo, Europe’s largest nuclear startup in financial difficulty-ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/09/29/4-a-newcleo-europes-largest-nuclear-startup-in-financial-difficulty/

ENERGY. We don’t need gas or nuclear to power data centres, says Octopus Energy boss. Solar becomes main source of electricity in the EU for first time. Here comes the sun! –The solar energy revolution – podcast .
Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice

ETHICS and RELIGION. ‘Listen to the cry of the Earth’: Pope Leo takes aim at climate change sceptics..

EVENTS. 10 October – 18 October – Peace Camp: Salir de Casa por Gaza.

HISTORY. 80 years demonizing Russia long enough…time for détente

LEGAL US Military Doctrine – Goodbye to Geneva . .Starmer’s new nukes break Non-Proliferation Treaty, legal experts say.

MEDIA. How the media tears up its own rulebook to hide Israel’s atrocities.
When Palestinians in Israeli Captivity, US Media Almost Never Take Note.
The War Department’s War on Media.
Book Review: A Call to Arms About the Threat of Anti-Science.

OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . No to nuclear in the Llynfi valley – Community campaign resists reactors built for data centres.
Powering forward the Transatlantic Nuclear Free Alliance.

PERSONAL STORIES. Jane Goodall, the Gentle Disrupter Whose Research on Chimpanzees Redefined What It Meant To Be Human.
Time to stop propping up mentally and physically disintegrating president.

PLUTONIUM. U.S. to gift Plutonium-239 to private nuclear industry.

POLITICS. ‘Deeply Un-American’: Trump Tells Generals to Use US Cities as Military ‘Training Grounds’
Theatre of the absurd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlXPfKAAnUo
The Ultimate Test of Allegiance.
Changing the rules: Ministers may scrap nuke dump Test of Public Support.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.
UN Nuclear Ban Treaty Gets Majority of States on Board Following Kyrgyzstan’s Signing.
A Serious Proposal: Russia and China Call for Global Strategic Stability.

Will Tony Blair rule over Gaza? Palestinian Subordination: Donald Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan. Trump’s 20-Point Gamble: A bold bid to end the Gaza War – or a recipe for stalemate?

Israel’s Netanyahu addresses Empty UN Chamber with Genocidal Claims after Mass Walkout. Steve Witkoff’s Latest ‘Peace Plan’ Is A Scam.

Iran won’t risk Russia, China’s ire by quitting nuclear treaty, expert says. Iran angry as sweeping UN sanctions take effect after failure of nuclear talks. UN sanctions reimposed on Iran over alleged nuclear deal violation. UN Security Council rejects Russia and China’s last-ditch effort to delay sanctions on Iran

SAFETY.Russian nuclear submarine surfaces near UK territory in ‘explosive hazard’
Russian nuclear submarine: Fears as K-159 nuke vessel, that sank over 20 years ago, rusty and resting on seabed with highly radioactive fuel.
Flamanville fiasco: EDF blamed by the Nuclear Safety Authority- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/09/29/4-b1-flamanville-fiasco-edf-blamed-by-the-nuclear-safety-authority/Danger déjà vu.
Power fully restored to Chernobyl site.
The 750 kV power line at Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant shows no signs of major damage: new satellite investigation by Greenpeace.
IAEA Races to Restore Power at Besieged Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Plant.
IAEA issues fresh warning over drones near nuclear plants.

Suffolk County Council has no evacuation plan in case of a RAF Lakenheath nukes incident

Money to oversee nuclear weapons safety will start running low after 8 days, US Energy secretary says.

SPINBUSTER. The ‘Golden Age of nuclear’ deal is all a veneer . .
Paper reactors and paper tigers.
Britain remade – with a lot of nuclear?
Expect A Huge Fuss About The October 7 Anniversary As The World Turns Against Israel.

TECHNOLOGY. Are We Waking Up Fast Enough to the Dangers of AI Militarism?

WASTES. DOE can’t pin down costs, schedules for nuclear cleanups — audit.
Nuclear waste in a landfill?
Decommissioning. Nuclear reactor Tihange 1 to cease operations after fifty years.Secrets of the deep, deep tunnels where nuclear waste is buried -ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/09/30/5-b1-secrets-of-the-deep-deep-tunnels-where-nuclear-waste-is-buried/
UK Government names six decommissioning sites being considered for new nuclear.

WAR and CONFLICT
.Hamas Agrees to Release Hostages, Trump Calls on Israel to Stop Bombing- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Tnl8etV9A

After Bombing Boats, Trump Tells Congress US Is in ‘Armed Conflict’ With Drug Cartels.
As UN Turns 80, Trump Continues US Violation of Charter’s Limits on Use of Force.

Israel Launches Major Airstrikes on Yemeni Capital, Killing at Least Nine.
Trump says Hamas ‘ready for peace’, tells Israel to stop bombing Gaza.

Netanyahu’s General Assembly Tirade Telegraphs A Resumption of Israel’s War On Iran.
Nuclear Testing Threats are Returning & Saber Rattling is Getting Louder, warns UN Chief.Can Warriors Stop Endless Wars?

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. Exposing JFK Airport’s hidden arms pipeline to Israel.

October 5, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter | Leave a comment

Lots of nuclear news – NOT from the nuclear-corporate-political-media-military-complex

Some bits of good news – Conservation efforts paying off for Yellow River basin ecology Ocean treaty “a landmark victory” for the high seas. Australia is getting a new national park

TOP STORIES. 50 States One Israel – Wikipedia.
Trump’s visit proved the utter corruption of our political and media class.Nuke Power is Trump/Fascist Power…and an Epic Global Failure.

‘Inevitable’ that nuclear waste facility will go ahead without local consent says former minister.
The horrors I’ve seen of Ukrainian, NATO-backed, shelling of completely civilian areas of the Donbass throughout 2022 (and 2019, 2023…)

Trump’s nuclear ‘renaissance’ rests on risky plan for radioactive waste.

Fukushima recovery plagued with setbacks.

Living with the legacy of France’s nuclear weapons testing.

Climate. Global drying, Gaia & Abrupt Change

AUSTRALIA.Two leaders, two realities: Trump vs Albanese at the UN. Australian Submarine Agency lobbies Fremantle locals amid protest over AUKUS defence hub

Illawarra groups want Port Kembla ruled out for AUKUS nuclear submarine base.Global report confirms and details nuclear power’s stagnation: Someone needs to tell the Coalition

Opposition to proposed nuclear submarine base at Port Kembla. Islamophobia in Australia, antisemitism’s ignored cousin.

NUCLEAR ITEMS

ATROCITIES. The Real Violent Extremists Are The Freaks Who Run The US Empire.

CIVIL LIBERTIES. This Ridiculous, Dangerous Antifa Order Is McCarthyism All Over Again—Possibly Worse.

ECONOMICS. Nuclear power’s record year masks future sustainability challenges, says report.
EDF: Court of Auditors warns of a model running out of steam. While EDF must invest 460 billion euros over 15 years, its economic model is taking on water.- ALSO AThttps://nuclear-news.net/2025/09/25/3-b1-edf-court-of-auditors-warns-of-a-model-running-out-of-steam/

ENERGY. Sorry, Donald Trump and Keir Starmer – Scotland doesn’t need nuclear – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/09/27/2-a-sorry-donald-trump-and-keir-starmer-scotland-doesnt-need-nuclear/

ENVIRONMENT. Sizewell C taking the axe to two century-old trees/

ETHICS and RELIGION. Imagine There Was A Violent Cult Committing Atrocities With Impunity.

EVENTS. PETITION. Say No to Nuclear Financing – World Bank and ADB, Why Turn Away from the Right Path?

HEALTH. Here’s What Life Is Like Inside One of Gaza’s Last Remaining Hospitals.

LEGAL. Federal Judge Strikes Down New York’s “Save the Hudson” Nuclear Discharge Ban.David versus Goliath: the battle of a small indigenous community against a federal radioactive waste dump

MEDIA. ‘Near Daily’ Israeli Assaults on Lebanon Have Become Non-News for Western Media.UN Declares Genocide in Gaza While 250 US Lawmakers Are in Israel. The Shift: 50 States, One Israel.
Trump Turns Pentagon Into Department of War on First Amendment.
‘Media Really Took at Face Value What Trump Said About This Boat and Its Occupants’: CounterSpin interview with Alex Main on Venezuelan boat assault.

OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Nuclear Free Local Authorities join global call on World Bank to abandon plans to back new nuclear.
Cumberland Council is Looking Like Last Line of Defence Against Lake District Coast Nuclear Dump So Why Won’t They Hold A Full Vote and Full Debate ?
Remembering the fight to make Sebastopol a “nuclear-free zone”.

POLITICS.
Israel’s takeover of Gaza City to add $7.5BN to Israel’s and US’s taxpayer burden.
Scotland SNP defence plans ‘risk EU and NATO membership’, analyst warns.
Miliband poised to overrule local opposition to build nuclear waste dumps – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/?s=Miliband+poised+to+overrule+

US senator says he is concerned energy secretary acting in nuclear firm’s interest. Nuclear as nation-building is a bad idea.

Mark Carney has significant financial interests in nuclear power.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.
UN at 80: Civil Society Must Have a Say in the Struggle for Renewal.
Global majority of countries now signed onto the UN nuclear ban treaty.
World leaders urged to prevent nuclear war, end the nuclear arms race and achieve global nuclear abolition.
Disarmament over destruction: A renewed push for a world without nuclear weapons.

The recognition of Palestine: what it does, what it doesn’t do, and why now. Britain recognises Palestine. Now what?
The genie of ‘Israeli First’ dominance is out of the bottle.
Iran, U.S. signal possible easing in nuclear tensions.
Russia, Iran sign nuclear power plants deal as sanctions loom.

UN sanctions on Iran set to return as nuclear diplomacy fades. How Iran Just Proved the West Doesn’t Want a Nuclear Deal: Another War for Israel Near. Iran hits out ahead of UN vote on nuclear sanctions. UN security council fails to prevent ‘snapback’ nuclear sanctions on Iran.

South Korea would accept a Trump-Kim deal to freeze nuclear programme, president tells BBC
.Putin just gave Trump the opportunity to maintain nuclear restraint. Will he seize it? Russia willing to extend New Start nuclear treaty – Putin.

US-UK deal nuclear signed to speed up reactor approval, as companies announce cross-border partnerships

SAFETY.Nuclear choices. Quake less alarming than tsunami threat to China’s coastal nuclear power plants.
Incident. Safety fears as external power to Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant still out after three days. Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant loses all off-site power, risking safety.
UK Minister cites national security and public safety in dismissing 148-home scheme near nuclear weapons facility. Three formal ‘special measures’ notices remain in place amid ongoing safety issues at Dounreay.

SECRETS and LIES. Iran says it obtained secret files on Israel’s nuclear program. Iran publishes alleged leak of Israeli nuclear sites, experts and secret files.

SPINBUSTER. Cato Institute: Nuclear power’s hamster wheel.

TECHNOLOGY. Small Nuclear Reactors Will Not Save The Day.Underground data fortresses: the nuclear bunkers, mines and mountains being transformed to protect our ‘new gold’ from attack.‘Life and death’: Penny Wong’s nuclear AI warning to UN Security Council.

WASTES. Confusion About a Second Repository for Radioactive Wastes.

WAR and CONFLICT.
Trump Claims Ukraine Can Retake All Territory Captured by Russia, May Be Able to ‘Go Further’
With nuclear pact in peril, Trump embraces prolonged war in Ukraine.

Spain and Italy, not US, protecting 22 Americans on Global Sumud Flotilla targeted for destruction by Israel.In move that could Bring in NATO, Spain joins Italy in Sending Rescue Ship for Sumud Gaza Aid Flotilla.

Trump to Netanyahu: ‘Here’s another $6 billion to polish off those pesky Palestinians.

What’s In a Name? The “Defense” Department Has Always Been About War.

Three dead after Ukraine bombs Crimea wellness resort – governor.

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES.
Trump administration plans nearly $6B in arms sales to Israel: Report.

Iran’s president vows to never build a nuclear bomb in his UNGA speech.

Canada keeps bankrolling Ukraine’s war crimes.

North Korea building nuclear weapon stockpile, says Seoul.

Fighter jets purchase would put UK in breach of nuclear treaty, says CND.

Why President Trump should put off the new nuclear arms race for one more year.

September 28, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter | Leave a comment

The non-corporate nuclear news – 8 -20th September

Some bits of good news –Humanity enters the age of rewilding. Humanity will shrink, far sooner than you think China’s green “Marshall Plan” is reshaping global energy.

TOP STORIES

The dangerous new Washington consensus for more nuclear weapons.

The Building of the First Atomic Bombs Impacted Workers and Residents, Too.

Israel has officially moved on from destroying Hamas to erasing

Palestine.Zelensky has insulted Trump: Is he suicidal?

Who are Britain Remade?

More hype about Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), but they may curb nuclear development .

Climate. Human-made global warming ‘caused two in three heat deaths in Europe this summer‘. Kenya’s Ruto says western leaders have broken ‘climate blood pact’– ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/09/11/1-b1-kenyas-ruto-says-western-leaders-have-broken-climate-blood-pact/

Aid cuts cast long shadow over key Africa climate talks. Protect Arctic from ‘dangerous’ climate engineering, scientists warn.

Environment. Key oceans treaty crosses threshold to come into force.

AUSTRALIA.

Nuclear subs base: Will it be Newy or The Gong? Could Australia defend itself?

US Threat to World Peace, AUKUS, and Dollar Sovereignty.

Australia rooftop solar hits 26.8 GW as home battery uptake surges.

NUCLEAR ITEMS

ECONOMICS Why Starmer’s nuclear ‘golden age’ risks becoming a lot of hot air – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/09/20/1-b1-why-starmers-nuclear-golden-age-risks-becoming-a-lot-of-hot-air/

U.S. Firms Boost UK Nuclear Sector with Major Deals . US and UK companies ink nuclear deals ahead of Trump visit.

Sweden Looks to Lend $23 Billion to New Nuclear Power Projects.

ENVIRONMENT. ‘Sizewell C oak tree felling would be devastating’.

ETHICS and RELIGION. Ending a War That Never Should Have Started.Holy See tells nations at UN to end threat of nuclear weapons, even as deterrence..

EVENTS. 22 September – Spazio Europa, Rome – Global Launch of the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2025 To attend in person, please register here, The event will be live-streamed on YouTube here. Note: The full 589-page report will be available for free download as of 22 September 2025 at 10:00 CET here

HEALTH. Why a national cancer study near US reactors must be conducted before any new expansion of nuclear power.

LEGAL. A killing at sea marks America’s descent into lawless power.Campaigners continue to need their day in court, says NFLA Secretary.

MEDIA. Trump masters the art of “dobbing” on an Australian journalist.Israeli Lawmakers Demanded Better PR to Conceal Gaza Famine: Google Obliged. New York Times misstates Palestinian death toll, downplays genocide.Read this book!

PERSONAL STORIES. I am ANTIFA .Israeli Forces Bomb, Loot, Vandalize Our Homes in Gaza: We Long for Normal Life.Trump not Commander in Chief…he’s Violence Inciter in Chief.

POLITICS.
Will the US Continue to Aid, Abet, and Arm Genocide in Gaza?

Political witch hunts and blacklists: Donald Trump and the new era of
McCarthyism.

Iran hardliners reject IAEA deal, but IRGC outlet voices support.

What You Need to Know About the £38 Billion Sizewell C Nuclear Project in the UK.

U.S. Nuclear Reactors will NOT Build a Strong Canada. https://nuclear-news.net/2025/09/20/1-u-s-nuclear-reactors-will-not-build-a-strong-canada/

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.
Europe has discombobulated Trump’s Ukraine war peace plan.

UN genocide report puts Starmer in the dock.

The future of Gaza as seen from the White House.

Iran, allies submit draft IAEA resolution to ban attacks on nuclear sites. IAEA chief notes progress in Iran talks over nuclear site inspections.

China, Russia urge Europe to halt UN snapback after Iran-IAEA deal.

Saudi pact puts Pakistan’s nuclear umbrella into Middle East security picture. Saudi Arabia, nuclear-armed Pakistan sign mutual defence pact.

SAFETY.UK Ministry of Defence dismiss MP’ s call for inquiry into trident bases nuclear leaks – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/09/20/1-b1-uk-ministry-of-defence-dismiss-mp-s-call-for-inquiry-into-trident-bases-nuclear-leaks/

UK hands over its nuclear safety conditions to Trump’s administration? – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/09/20/1-b1-uk-hands-over-its-nuclear-safety-conditions-to-trumps-administration/

Can the UK fast-track nuclear power without cutting corners on safety?

Case for Military Proportionality: Disabling Nuclear Plants.

IAEA reports “serious safety risks” at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. Nuclear Sites Dotted Across Ukraine Pose Threat of Radiation Disaster.

Chernobyl shelter repairs: ‘Difficult choices’ lie ahead.

Plans to close Suffolk rail crossings for a Sizewell C upgrade will have a “huge impact” on residents and businesses.

SECRETS and LIES. Antifa Nation.

SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. Communities Push Back against SpaceX in Tamaulipas.

SPINBUSTER. Rolls Royce “Small” nuclear reactors are not at all small! – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/09/20/2-b1-rolls-royce-small-nuclear-reactors-are-not-at-all-small/

TECHNOLOGY. Small Modular nuclear reactors sound great, but won’t be ready any time soon.

WASTES.Backlash against UK nuclear push with uncertainty over radioactive wastedisposal a key issue.

Plutonium, Public Money and a Perilous Nuclear Dump on the Lake District Coast, a Letter to Cumberland Council’s “Nuclear Issues Board”.
Academic agrees with NFLA’s position on management of deadly radioactive waste.

Two down: Whicham joins Millom in withdrawing from undemocratic and discredited community partnership.

First of four containers of tritium waste at LANL has been vented.
Construction starts of Belgian disposal facility

WAR and CONFLICT.
The Department of War Is Back!

Israel Bombs Doha, Reportedly Targeting Hamas Negotiators Discussing US Proposal. Israel bombed Qatar to assassinate Hamas’s lead ceasefire negotiators.

US Considers Bombing Venezuela as It Deploys F-35 Fighter Jets to Puerto Rico.

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES.
The Military-Industrial Complex.UK Labour must not award Elbit a £2 billion military deal .
Spain Announces Arms Embargo on Israel and Other Steps ‘to Stop the Genocide in Gaza’.

Pakistan nuclear weapons, 2025.

September 21, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter | Leave a comment

The non-corporate nuclear news – week to 8 September

Some bits of good news – Solar is taking off across Africa in a big way. Green energy approvals smash records in the UK. Golden eagle chick ‘a symbol of hope’ in Scotland.

TOP STORIES.

The World Has Failed to Stop Israel: Our Only Choices Now: Leave or Die. Is Israel quietly expanding its nuclear arsenal? Satellite images raise suspicion.

The world moves on without Trump.

Attacks on nuclear plants are being normalised – and the consequences could be disastrous.

Why NuScale Power Stock Slid 31% Last Month.

Nuclear power is failing, and AI can’t rescue it.

Climate. These countries are sinking into the sea: What happens when they disappear forever? World’s largest iceberg is finally about to disappear 40 years after breaking away from Antarctica.

AUSTRALIA. SSN AUKUS – Heading for a quagmire (Part II).

Secret antisemitism research: Envoy Jillian Segal hides evidence?

Nuclear likely to remain part of Coalition’s energy policy as Dan Tehan warns Australia risks being left ‘stranded’.

NUCLEAR ITEMS.

ECONOMICS.

Small reactors: cash flow alert for Newcleo, Europe’s largest nuclear start-up.
Rolls-Royce denies report of IPO ( Initial Public Offering) plans for small nuclear reactor unit. Rolls-Royce explores small nuclear reactor unit funding options including IPO (Initial Public Offering).
The final furlong: EDF announces further lifetime extension for aging AGR reactors.
Nuclear sector says credible GDF plan needed for investor confidence as £1.4bn contract readied.
Euratom: €9.8 billion for nuclear research in the next EU budget.
Microsoft joins World Nuclear Association amid rapid AI expansion plans.

EDUCATION. Extra funding revealed to fuel nuclear fusion energy training and research.

ENERGY. Nuclear outpaced fourteen to one by wind and solar in Europe. Japan shocks the world — Solar panels as strong as 20 nuclear reactors unveiled..

ENVIRONMENT. Why are saltmarshes such effective carbon sinks?
Widened recall of radioactively contaminate shrimp.
Is fishmeal from Fukushima-affected fish the source of Indonesian shrimp’s radioactive contamination?
Jellyfish cause partial shutdown at French nuclear plant.

EVENTS, 26 September – Nuclear Abolition Day – International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

HEALTH. Will Cancer Prove to be Another Weapon in Israel’s War in Gaza?Nuclear-armed states should come clean after 80 years of nuclear testing harm.

OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . “We gave for France… now that’s enough”: La Hague residents reject Orano’s nuclear pools project. A Folly Too Far?

POLITICS.U.S. Government Is Taking Historic Steps To Restart Nuclear Plants. South Carolina’s dormant nuclear volcanoes. Trump supports nuclear power as it is ‘more American’ than wind, solar, US official says.Trump Is Renaming the Defense Department the Department of War. Nuclear roadblocks – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/09/07/2-b1-nuclear-roadblocks/ Donald Trump orders ‘take down’ of 44-year-old peace vigil opposite White House.UKRAINIAN NEOFASCISM – War Time Developments: Part 1 ‘Azov’ and Part 2 ‘Right Sector’.Fukushima and the Politics of Nuclear Disaster Recovery.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.
One by one, leaders learn that grovelling to Trump leads to disaster: When will it dawn on Starmer?
China’s SCO Summit Highlights West’s Growing Ideological Isolation, + Zelensky’s Desperate Gambit.
Coalition of the unwilling gets stuck in Groundhog Day.
NATO. has outlived its purpose – Jeffrey Sachs.
Russia is ready to discuss nuclear fuel at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia with US – RIA.

The NEW, new world order.
The U.S. visa cancellations for Palestinians marks another step towards West Bank annexation.
Nuclear crisis looms as Iran faces sanctions snapback, expert warns. Iran FM Araghchi warns Europe against ‘reckless’ approach to nuclear deal

PLUTONIUM. £154m plan hatched to move UK’s 140-tonne cache of powdered plutonium from nuclear reactor waste at Sellafield.

SAFETY. Incidents. Ukraine drones hit training centre at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Russian management says.
It’s past time to start protecting U.S. nuclear power reactors from drones.
EDF’s Heysham 1 and Hartlepool nuclear plants to operate for further 12 months. Jellyfish Force another French Nuclear Reactor to Shut Down.

SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. A new arms race in space must be stopped in its tracks .Golden Dome is already a turning point for American space policy.

SPINBUSTER. Pentagon Document: U.S. Wants to “Suppress Dissenting Arguments” Using AI Propaganda.

WASTES. Government ‘replanning’ £53.3bn geological disposal facility project. Nuclear industry says waste site is key. Memorial unveiled at former RAF airbase threatened by nuke waste dump. The Nuclear Waste Problem Haunting UK Energy Expansion.

Decommissioning. Sizewell C | Public on the hook for decommissioning costs of up to £12bn. Sizewell C Funded Decommissioning Programme: Contingent Liability. Anglesey planners to consider relocation of Wylfa building,

Project 2025 agenda revives Nevada’s Yucca Mountain fears.

WAR and CONFLICT. Israel beginning mass mobilization to take Gaza City – Jerusalem Post.NFLAs join nuclear test appeal to French and Algerian Governments.
Renaming Defense Dept. War Dept. wrong but accurately describes deranged US perpetual war policy.

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. European military-industrial output for Ukraine outpaces the US. War spending is ever greater.Satellite images show construction at site linked to Israel’s suspected nuclear weapons programme.
These fools plan to win a nuclear war: Flight tests begin on US Air Force’s new ‘doomsday plane’

September 9, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter | Leave a comment

This week’s non-corporate nuclear news

Some bits of good news – Small Chinese County Reverses Desertification with Arduous Tree-Planting Method Across 240,000 Acres. WHO Declares Kenya Free of This Deadly Tropical Parasite After Decades of Suffering.
Washington State Protects the Old-Growth Forests of Tomorrow, Creates 77,000 Acres of ‘Legacy Forests’.

TOP STORIES.

The Detached Cruelty of Air Power– From Guernica to Gaza Mass Killers Have Been Above It All.

How France’s nuclear dream became a financial nightmare.

Is the UK’s giant new nuclear power station “unbuildable”? -ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/08/30/1-a-is-the-uks-giant-new-nuclear-power-station-unbuildable/

Unaudited Power: The Military Budget That Nobody Controls.
Dauntingly long, and with an inflammatory title, this article is nevertheless a compelling read – Gaza to Donbass: How Israel and Ukraine Built a Fascist, Transnational War Machine.

AUSTRALIA. Think Tanker Demands for AUKUS: What Australia Should do with US Submarines.

Point of Order: Antisemitism Summit raises ethics eyebrows.

NUCLEAR ITEMS

ART and CULTURE. Atomic Bill and the Payment Due.

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Trump & the Russophobes.

ATROCITIES. Entire UN Security Council Except US Says Gaza Famine ‘Man-Made’ as 10 More People Starve to Death.

Eighteen Palestinians Starve to Death in Gaza Over Three Days Due to Israeli Siege – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p5UVrz1KLg

Report: Smotrich Told IDF Chief That Anyone Who Doesn’t Evacuate Gaza City Can ‘Die of Hunger or Surrender’.

Why has Donald Trump not spoken out about the famine in Gaza? | Inside Story.

ECONOMICS. The World Bank can now fund nuclear energy projects: Here’s what’s next.The lunacy of Britain’s Sizewell C nuclear project – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/08/31/2-a-the-lunacy-of-britains-sizewell-c-nuclear-project/On fusion liability, UK Energy Minister completely sidelines the issue.

ENVIRONMENT. ‘It doesn’t make sense’: Marine biologist on Kenya’s proposed nuclear power plant.

EVENTS. 2nd September CND Webinar – From Hiroshima to Today: Jeremy Corbyn & Caroline Lucas report back – Register here. 9th September (7 – 8 pm AEST) – ZOOM- What Remains: Nuclear Legacies of the Montebello Islands. Please join us by registering here.
15 September – Webinar -AUKUS – End it Now! – https://events.humanitix.com/aukus-end-it-now

MEDIA. Israel’s Killing of Journalists Follows a Pattern of Silencing Palestinian Media That Stretches Back to 1967. Israel Bombs Gaza Hospital, Kills 5 Journalists from AP, Al Jazeera, Reuters, NBC – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k9PdldBcwY

Chicago Tribune letters again avoid reality of Ukraine’s impending battlefield defeat.

OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Ecological Justice group explains impacts of the nuclear project on Alberta.

PERSONAL STORIES. T he evolution of Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Israel-Ukraine connection.

PLUTONIUM. Government allocates £154m for plutonium disposal.

POLITICS. Peace in Ukraine spells disaster for mainstream political parties in Europe.
Why won’t 519 other congresspersons join Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green and 13 other congresspersons in condemning US enabled Israeli genocide in Gaza?
East Lothian Council calls for a study into new nuclear at Torness.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.
Russia outsmarts France with nuclear power move in Niger.

Iran accuses Europe of surrendering nuclear deal to Trump’s veto. UN inspectors back in Iran as IAEA chief gets protection over Tehran threat. Iran parliament presses government to apply law limiting IAEA cooperation.

SAFETY. OUR NUCLEAR WORLD: PICK YOUR TARGET.

Fears are rising about the safety of a nuclear power plant in Russia after a Ukrainian attack overnight. What will happen if the Ukrainian Armed Forces attempt to strike the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant?- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/08/31/2-b1-what-will-happen-if-the-ukrainian-armed-forces-attempt-to-strike-the-kursk-nuclear-power-plant/

Donald Trump’s assault on U.S. nuclear watchdog raises safety concerns- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/08/30/1-b1-donald-trumps-assault-on-u-s-nuclear-watchdog-raises-safety-concerns/

Japan exploring whether AI could help inspect its nuclear power plants.

SECRETS and LIES. UK aware of Israel’s ‘terror’ for over 20 years.Russian engineer-physicist Ozharovsky spoke about deportation from Mongolian- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/08/31/2-b1-russian-engineer-physicist-ozharovsky-spoke-about-deportation-from-mongolia/

SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. Is Nasa’s nuclear moon plan sheer lunacy?

SPINBUSTER. Alberta Revives Its Nuclear Energy Dreams.

TECHNOLOGY. Indonesia Bets On Thorcon’s Molten Salt Reactor, But History Suggests Trouble Ahead.
The nuclear fusion delusion -Government proposals re Nuclear Fusion Siting Policy.
How AI and surveillance capitalism are undermining democracy.

WASTES. ‘Nuclear Priests’ could warn future people about wastes under the Irish Sea – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/08/27/2-a-nuclear-priests-could-warn-future-people-about-wastes-under-the-irish-sea/

Wastewater release from Fukushima nuclear plant enters third year.
Podcast | The 30-year journey to an underground facility for long-term nuclear waste storage.
Assessment of Asse storage chamber conditions begins.
Radioactive waste burning by nuclear transmutation: CoRWM position paper.

WAR and CONFLICT. Russia reports blaze at one of its biggest nuclear power plants. Ukraine Drone Strikes Hit Russia’s Nuclear Plant & Fuel Terminal | War Escalates – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVmxyRaffmU

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. An Elbit-Bain Consortium is Nightmare Fuel: the UK Government Must Not Award £2bn Contract to These Corporate Horrors.
Biggest nuclear tests in history: Tsar Bomba, Castle Bravo and their global impact.

September 3, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter | Leave a comment

Nuclear news – but not from the nuclear-media-industrial-political complex

Some Bits of good news –
Mexico slashed its poverty rate.

Green energy approvals smash records in the UK.

The tide turns for seahorse on England’ South coast.

TOP STORIES How Will Ukraine War End? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6C93pCdCHA.

Chris Hedges: Israel’s Assassination of Memory.

Europe’s nuclear power plants buckle under climate extremes.

Famine Officially Declared in Gaza After 2 Years of Near-Total Israeli Blockade. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2VJOHp-OMw&t=79s

Climate. Wildfire smoke far more dangerous to health than thought, say scientists. Do heatwaves, wildfires and travel costs signal the end of the holiday abroad?

AUSTRALIA.

Ditch AUKUS Pillar One: It involves Australia too much in US strategy.
David Littleproud vows to take nuclear energy to next election and claims ‘no malice’ behind brief Coalition split. Nationals Leader David Littleproud says nuclear power policy ‘sensible’ next step.
Billions in Israel defence contracts put Australia at risk. Sky’s ‘War Cabinet’ manufactures panic and prophecy over proof. Jillian Segal’s report turns criticism of Israel into a punishable offence.
In Alice Springs everyone has an opinion on the Pine Gap spy base, but no-one wants to talk about what happens inside. US bases including Pine Gap saw Australia put on nuclear alert, but no-one told Gough Whitlam.

NUCLEAR ITEMS

ATROCITIES. Children at gravest risk as full-fledged famine unfolds in Gaza.

CLIMATE. EDF May Cut Nuclear Output in North France as River Levels Drop. Why New Large and Small Nuclear Reactors are Not Green. Radiocarbon Dispersion around Canadian Nuclear Facilities.

CULTURE and ARTS. Trump Breaks Europe Over His Knee: Unprecedented Optics of White House ‘Losers’ Gathering’.

ECONOMICS. KHNP And Westinghouse ‘Holding Talks’ Over Nuclear JV For US And Europe.

ENERGY. France ‘flexes’ nuclear output as solar reshapes European energy.Data centers consume massive amounts of water – companies rarely tell the public exactly how much. German experience shows transition to renewables possible for Taiwan and the world..

ENVIRONMENT. The jellyfish are the symptom.Walmart recalls possibly radioactive shrimp after public warned not to eat.The Challenge for Atlantic Salmon -the Epic Journey Begins.

ETHICS and RELIGION. Zionism Is What It Does.

EVENTS. September 13/14 – Global Network 33rd Annual Space Zoom Conference– “NATO-US prepare for war on China

HEALTH. The Trump Administration’s Halt on Medical Evacuations From Gaza Is a Death Sentence for Palestinian Children.
Workers who developed cancer while building America’s nuclear weapons struggle to make medical claims after Trump cuts.
More than 2,000 nuclear weapons have been detonated in the past 80 years: their effects still linger around the world.

INDIGENOUS ISSUES. LANL Silences Public and Tribal Voices While Pushing Radioactive Tritium Venting.

LEGAL. Albion Stupidities: Palestine Action and Anti-Terrorism Laws.

MEDIA. What I Saw in Ukraine: 2015-2022 – Diary of an International Observer.
Atomic Bill and the Payment Due.
The Media Loves “The Experts,” Until it’s Time to Count Gaza’s Dead. Western Media Manufactured Consent for Israel’s Murder of Palestinian Journalists.

OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Statements of support from international energy scholars for Taiwan’s nuclear phase-out.Angry Denver International Airport neighbors quash nuclear power idea in 48 hours flat.

PLUTONIUM. Trump plans to make Cold War-era plutonium available for nuclear power.

POLITICS. Israel approves controversial West Bank settlement plan.
Taiwan nuclear plant re-opening vote fails as approval threshold missed. Taiwan votes on recalling opposition lawmakers and reviving nuclear power.Iran willing to reduce uranium enrichment to avoid British sanctions.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.
Patrick Lawrence: That Big, Beautiful Summit in Alaska .
RAY McGOVERN: Trump & the Seven Dwarfs.
What really happened in Alaska.

Trump Says He’s Working To Arrange a Meeting Between Putin and Zelensky.French monitor: Ukraine, NATO provoked Russia in Donbas war. Ukraine’s best security guarantee is the peace NATO sabotaged.Jeffrey Sachs:

The US Can End the Gaza Genocide Now.

South Korea’s state-run nuclear power firm barred from North America, Europe over intellectual property dispute: Report.

SAFETY. Call for investigation into serious nuclear leak at Faslane.Mile High City sparks fury over plan for one of America’s busiest airports.

SECRETS and LIES.
Why Zelensky’s main argument against peace is a lie.[SMRs]
Twin Trails of Treachery Expose – by Paul McKay.
Israel’s man inside the CIA betrayed the US, new files show.
Revealed: The KGB plot to poison loch with radioactive waste... then blame it on American nuclear subs CND peaceniks were campaigning to ban from Britain.
Never Forget The Lies They Told About Gaza: Never Forgive Them.

SPINBUSTER. Only Liars And Manipulators Say Gaza Isn’t Starving. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLE0KQdFRJk

WASTES. Treasury criticises ‘unachievable’ plan for underground nuclear waste dump in Cumbria. Fukushima nuclear plant decommissioning seen overrunning estimate.

WAR and CONFLICT. Israeli Military To Call Up 60,000 Reservists as It Prepares for Gaza City Ethnic Cleansing Campaign. Israelis Understand That Trump Can End The Nightmare In Gaza: Americans Should Know This Too.

Everyone will gain from a peace deal for Ukraine. Zelensky should meet with Putin…to surrender.
Ukraine drone hits Russian nuclear plant, sparks huge fire at Novatek’s Ust-Luga terminal . Russia blames nuclear site attack on Ukraine as Kyiv marks independence day. Downed Ukrainian Drone Causes Fire At Kursk Nuclear Power Plant. Trump ‘angry’ about Ukrainian attacks on key Russian pipeline to EU – Budapest
Kiev to replace soldiers with robots – top general.Those warmongering Europeans!
WAR and CONFLICT. Israeli Military To Call Up 60,000 Reservists as It Prepares for Gaza City Ethnic Cleansing Campaign. Israelis Understand That Trump Can End The Nightmare In Gaza: Americans Should Know This Too.

Everyone will gain from a peace deal for Ukraine. Zelensky should meet with Putin…to surrender.Ukraine drone hits Russian nuclear plant, sparks huge fire at Novatek’s Ust-Luga terminal . Russia blames nuclear site attack on Ukraine as Kyiv marks independence day. Downed Ukrainian Drone Causes Fire At Kursk Nuclear Power Plant. Trump ‘angry’ about Ukrainian attacks on key Russian pipeline to EU – Budapest
Kiev to replace soldiers with robots – top general.Those warmongering Europeans!

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. Europe To Spend $100BN It Doesn’t Have, To Buy Weapons America Doesn’t Have, To Arm Soldiers Ukraine Now Lacks. European military-industrial output for Ukraine outpaces the US.North Korea has ‘undeclared’ ICBM base near China border, according to new report.Drone Technology and the Future of Nuclear Weapons.

August 27, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter | Leave a comment

Non-corporate nuclear news – too long this week-sorry

Some bits of good news – How Australia Enlisted the Whole Country to Protect Its Biodiversity.

Lessons for a Warming World From Kashmir’s Cooling Caves. Offshore wind farms act as ‘de facto marine reserves’. Weaving a story of hope with nature recovery

TOP STORIES.

Democrats bashing Trump, Putin summit ensuring continued destruction of Ukraine. It’s not ‘Who lost Ukraine?’ It’s ‘Who destroyed Ukraine?

Does Trump have the guts to end America’s lost proxy war against Russia?
Stopping The Gaza Holocaust Is The First Step Toward A Healthy World.

From the archives. Conveniently forgotten and ignored – the 8 years war in Ukraine up to 2022. Setting the record straight on the background to events in Ukraine. The West initiated the Ukraine crisis, and will have to work to fix it.

Climate. Temperature records broken as extreme heat grips parts of Europe. Hellish’: heatwave brings hottest nights on record to the Middle East.

AUSTRALIA. Australia’s F-35 exports a “facilitation of war crimes”: US expert.

‘Disarm now’: Anti-nuke advocate’s message to world leaders at Pine Gap protest.

New report on British nuclear submarines should raise alarm bells across Australia. The nuclear-powered submarine crisis.

Government-funded nuclear is fine for Dan Tehan, but not renewables or climate initiatives.

NUCLEAR ITEMS

ATROCITIES. Over 100 Children Have Died of Severe Hunger Amid Israeli Siege: Gaza Health Ministry. Israel’s govt issues ‘death sentence’ to remaining captives.Palestinians Displaced in West Bank by Israeli Settlers Ask: Where Can We Go?

CLIMATE. Heat Waves Are a Growing Threat to Europe’s Nuclear Power Supply.

CIVIL LIBERTIES. Pentagon to Create ‘Domestic Civil Disturbance Quick Reaction Force’.

ECONOMICS. Nuclear developers turn to Special Purpose Acquisition Companies – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAJTkL99anI&t=22s
Rolls-Royce making fortune from ‘untested new nuclear market’.The cost of the UK’s strategic nuclear deterrent.
Nuclear legacy costs far outweigh Germany’s environmental protection investments..

ENERGY. Equinix enters into multiple advanced nuclear deals to power data centers– ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/08/16/1-b1-equinix-enters-into-multiple-advanced-nuclear-deals-to-power-data-centers/

ENVIRONMENT. Swarm of jellyfish shuts nuclear power plant in France. A Mob of Alien Creatures Just Took 4 Nuclear Reactors Completely Offline.

Government faces calls to investigate Faslane nuclear leak. Radioactive water ‘leaked into’ loch from Faslane nuclear base. Rachel Reeves to cut ‘bats and newts’ in boost to developers- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/08/18/1-b1-rachel-reeves-to-cut-bats-and-newts-in-boost-to-developers/

ETHICS and RELIGION. Vonnegut on Nagasaki: “The most racist, nastiest act by this country, after human slavery”

EVENTS. PETITION: Urgent: Insist Cumberland Council Fulfill Their Nuclear Democratic Duty

HEALTH. Nuclear wasps fallout explodes as worker from bomb factory blows the lid on the true threat of the crisis… while battling FIVE cancers.

LEGAL. Netanyahu’s Plan To Occupy Gaza Violates World Court Ruling That Israeli Occupation is Illegal.
TASC’s new legal challenge against Sizewell C’s secret flood defences. Judicial review sought at High Court into flood barriers.
Quebec engineering body finds former SNC-Lavalin CEO guilty on multiple counts of misconduct.

MEDIA. Israel Assassinates More Journalists To Hide Its Planned War Crimes. Slaying and Censoring the Journalists: The Murder of Anas al-Sharif. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6w0NF5Htbs Cowardly Israeli Murder of 5 Journalists, including Anas al-Sharif, Smearing them as Hamas.

OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Hundreds rally in Taipei against restart of No. 3 nuclear power plant.

PERSONAL STORIES. Anas Al-Sharif’s Final Message.My years reporting on Gaza broke me down- Why did it take so long for the world to become outraged?

POLITICS. Smotrich Announces Major West Bank Settlement Expansion To ‘Bury the Idea of a Palestinian State’.
Coulport nuclear leaks spark alarm among local nuclear campaigners -ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/08/16/1-b1-coulport-nuclear-leaks-spark-alarm-among-local-nuclear-campaigners/
Scottish independence can rid us of nuclear abomination.

Switzerland moves to lift ban on new nuclear power plants – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/08/17/2-b1-switzerland-moves-to-lift-ban-on-new-nuclear-power-plants/

Taiwan set to hold referendum on restarting last nuclear reactor.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY . Breaking the Ice in Alaska: Why Diplomacy Still Matters. Review of the Alaska meeting – The goal is always domination. Trump on Summit with Putin: We Made Great Progress Today. Trump meets with Putin: the non-event that was sold as history. No ceasefire, no deal: What summit means for Trump, Putin and Ukraine.
The Alaskan Summit: Possible Agenda and Outcomes.War’s final act: Zelensky’s dangerous play to crash Russia-US talks. Zelensky Rejects Idea of Ceding Territory to Russia as Trump and Putin Prepare for Alaska Summit. EU’s Kallas urges ‘pressure on Russia’ ahead of Putin-Trump talks .

The West is in panic as Israel’s plan for ‘full control’ of Gaza heralds a new Nakba.

Tehran faults UN nuclear watchdog over response to Israeli, US attacks. Iran’s nuclear chief urges IAEA to condemn Israeli terrorism.

SAFETY.UN nuclear watchdog official to visit Iran in a bid to improve ties but no inspections planned.
Incident. Serious nuclear incident’ took place at Scottish Navy base – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/08/17/2-b1-serious-nuclear-incident-took-place-at-scottish-navy-base/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD2b-rM-aeQ
Dumbing down: UK Taskforce charged with pushing nuclear deregulation . UK Labour eye ‘utterly reckless’ bonfire of nuclear energy regulations.
Nuclear Reactor Faces 18 Hours Without Cooling as “Pipes Burst Like Burning Arteries” Following Technician’s Mistake in Shocking Safety Breakdown.

SECRETS and LIES. Declassified: CIA’s Covert Ukraine Invasion Plan.Israel Is Beginning To Choke On Its Own Lies. A Shield of Lies: Netanyahu’s Battle Against the World.
‘A million calls an hour’: Israel using Microsoft cloud for mass surveillance of Palestine.
Ministry of Defence urged to publish full details of Faslane incident– ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/08/18/1-b1-ministry-of-defence-urged-to-publish-full-details-of-faslane-incident/

SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. Reckon you can put a nuclear reactor on the Moon?

SPINBUSTER. Trump Declares Victory After Putin Summit: The Spin Begins.

URANIUM. Russian uranium being used at Sizewell B site in Suffolk.

WASTES. Geological disposal facility for nuclear waste could cost £54bn and ‘appears unachievable’. Unproven and costly: Nuclear Waste Dump ‘Red’ Rated as Unachievable.

WAR and CONFLICT. Russia says it prevented a Ukrainian drone attack on the Smolensk nuclear power plant – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/08/18/1-b1-russia-federal-says-it-prevented-a-ukrainian-drone-attack-on-the-smolensk-nuclear-power-plant/Russia makes battlefield breakthrough in urgent push for land.Kaliningrad Gambit: NATO’s Last Desperate Bluff /Spark for World War III?

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. Germany’s Merz to Israel’s Netanyahu: ‘No more genocide weapons for you.’ In major shift, Germany ends arms exports to Israel amid Netanyahu’s Gaza takeover plan.
US flies nuclear bombs to Britain.
Don’t believe the hype about nuclear weapons.
The ‘third nuclear age’ is a politically motivated label that seeks to justify a renewed arms race.

August 20, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter | Leave a comment

Not the corporate nuclear news -this week

Some bits of good news – Superpowers united on a shared green energy vision. Japanese ‘Rental Grandmother’ Service Provides Much-Needed and Much-Loved Purpose for Older WomenUK’s Rarest Breeding Birds Raise Chicks for First Time in Six Years

TOP STORIES.

Remembering Hiroshima 80 years on – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgU-Vc958-k

Jeremy Corbyn: Nuclear Disarmament Now.

Why no Hollywood movie on Nagasaki A Bombing?

As Netanyahu moves toward full takeover of Gaza, Israel faces a crisis of international credibility.
Trump’s Suicidal Nuclear Brinksmanship.The new space race: How the US, China, and Russia are all vying to be the first to build a nuclear reactor on the MOON.

Environment and health. The Lancet Countdown on health and plastics.

AUSTRALIA. Australia to chart its own course on Palestinian statehood, without Trump’s say-so.

Dare To Hope. Julian Assange Joins Historic Anti-Genocide March Across Sydney’s Harbour Bridge.

The lethal legacy of Aukus nuclear submarines will remain for millennia – and there’s no plan to deal with it. The AUKUS Submarine Deal is Dead. AUKUS delusions– More rivets pop in submarine drama.

Those left behind: The long shadow of Britain’s nuclear testing in Western Australia.

NUCLEAR ITEMS.

ARTS and CULTURE. Patrick Lawrence: Yes, It’s a Genocide.

ATROCITIES. The Genocidal Partnership of Israel and the United States.1,500 Killed While Seeking Aid in Gaza Since May: UN.

CLIMATE. Europe’s electricity system tested by heatwaves as air-conditioning use soars – nuclear power plants affected- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/08/07/2-a-europes-electricity-system-tested-by-heatwaves-as-air-conditioning-use-soars-nuclear-power-plants-affected/

ECONOMICS. EDF shifts nuclear strategy to domestic projects.

How industry is positioning itself for the giant Golden Dome budget.

EMPLOYMENT. Miliband’s Nuclear Quango Chief In Line for £200,000 for Working Three Days a Week. Sellafield nuclear plant contractors to strike. Sizewell C to give jobs to hundreds of ex-offenders.

ETHICS and RELIGION. The Satanic Nature of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The Christian Zionist View of Foreign Policy Is Holy War. Chris Hedges: The Gaza Riviera.

To Future Generations: They Knew-They All Knew What Was Happening In Gaza.

HEALTH. The Bombs Still Ticking.“Memories that do not heal”: the legacy of uranium mining at Laguna Pueblo.

HISTORY. Hiroshima’s fading legacy: the race to secure survivors’ memories amid a new era of nuclear brinkmanship.SEEDS OF PEACE -AUGUST 2025.Atomic testament: Yoshito Matsushige and the first photos of Hiroshima’s nuclear toll.

MEDIA. When the Press Becomes the Enemy: The Erosion of Media Independence in Trump’s America. YouTube bans prominent Zelensky critic.

OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . No Nukes for Power, Posturing or Destruction.

POLITICS. Weekly Briefing: A tipping point for Israel’s legitimacy.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. Nuclear Roulette.

80 years since Hiroshima and Nagasaki — time for a nuclear-free world for a peaceful, sustainable future.

Zelensky and the EU increasingly desperate over the inevitable outcome of the conflict.

As the world hurtles ever closer to nuclear oblivion, where is the opposition?

SAFETY. Trump’s Nuclear Energy Overhaul Sparks Alarms Over Safety.Fire safety improvements required at Dungeness A.

SECRETS and LIES. Ukraine hacks Russian submarine as Moscow expands Arctic presence.Microsoft helping Israel spy on millions of Palestinians since 2021: Report.

SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS.Who’s Protecting the Moon? We may not survive a nuclear war but some plan to carry on. Nasa to put nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030 – US media. A NASA Nuclear Reactor On The Moon? Bold Proposal Is Unfeasible By 2030– Here’s Why.
From boots to orbits: Army develops space skills amid growing battlefield reliance on satellites.

SPINBUSTER. 80 Years of Lies: The US Finally Admits It Knew It Didn’t Need to Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

TECHNOLOGY. A Second CANDU Reactor for Point Lepreau? Let’s Ponder.

WASTES. Tepco wraps up latest round of treated water release in Fukushima.

WAR and CONFLICT.

Israeli military plans to occupy Gaza City in major escalation of war. Israel Preparing To Escalate Military Offensive in Gaza. Occupation and Slaughter: Netanyahu and Taking Over Gaza.

Trump and Zelensky, two cornered rats with no way out of Ukraine catastrophe.

Threat of Nuclear War Is Rising, But Scientists Say the Public Can Change That.

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES.

No more Hiroshimas. Hiroshima anniversary: mayor says Ukraine and Middle East crises show world ignoring nuclear ‘tragedies.

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Expands Nuclear Bomb Production, Rejects Cleanup, Still Plans to Release Tritium.

$10 billion, 10 year US Army contract elevates Palantir to defense contracting royalty.

Pete Hegseth Doesn’t Want to Talk About Golden Dome

August 13, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter | Leave a comment

« Previous Entries Next Entries »

Archives
- March 2026 (204)
- February 2026 (268)
- January 2026 (308)
- December 2025 (358)
- November 2025 (359)
- October 2025 (376)
- September 2025 (258)
- August 2025 (319)
- July 2025 (230)
- June 2025 (348)
- May 2025 (261)
- April 2025 (305)
Categories
- 1
  - Arclight's Vision
- 1 NUCLEAR ISSUES
  - business and costs
    - employment
    - marketing
  - climate change
  - culture and arts
  - ENERGY
    - renewable
      - decentralised
      - energy storage
  - environment
    - oceans
    - water
  - health
    - children
    - psychology – mental health
    - radiation
    - social effects
    - women
  - history
  - indigenous issues
  - Legal
    - deaths by radiation
    - legal
  - marketing of nuclear
  - media
    - investigative journalism
    - Wikileaks
  - opposition to nuclear
  - PERSONAL STORIES
  - politics
    - psychology and culture
      - Trump – personality
    - public opinion
    - USA election 2024
    - USA elections 2016
  - politics international
  - Religion and ethics
  - safety
    - incidents
  - secrets,lies and civil liberties
    - civil liberties
  - spinbuster
    - Education
  - technology
    - reprocessing
    - Small Modular Nuclear Reactors
    - space travel
  - Uranium
  - wastes
    - – plutonium
    - decommission reactor
  - weapons and war
    - Atrocities
    - depleted uranium
  - Women
- 2 WORLD
  - ANTARCTICA
  - ARCTIC
  - ASIA
    - Burma
    - China
    - India
    - Indonesia
    - Japan
    - Malaysia
    - Mongolia
    - North Korea
    - Pakistan
    - South Korea
    - Taiwan
    - Turkey
    - Vietnam
  - EUROPE
    - Belarus
    - Bulgaria
    - Denmark
    - Finland
    - France
    - Germany
    - Greece
    - Ireland
    - Italy
    - Kazakhstan
    - Kyrgyzstan
    - Russia
    - Spain
    - Sweden
    - Switzerland
    - UK
    - Ukraine
  - MIDDLE EAST
    - Afghanistan
    - Egypt
    - Gaza
    - Iran
    - Iraq
    - Israel
    - Jordan
    - Libya
    - Saudi Arabia
    - Syria
    - Turkey
    - United Arab Emirates
  - NORTH AMERICA
    - Canada
    - USA
      - election USA 2020
  - OCEANIA
    - New Zealand
    - Philippines
  - SOUTH AMERICA
    - Brazil
- ACTION
- AFRICA
  - Kenya
  - Malawi
  - Mali
  - Namibia
  - Niger
  - Nigeria
  - Somalia
  - South Africa
- Atrocities
- AUSTRALIA
- Christina's notes
- Christina's themes
- culture and arts
- Events
- Fuk 2022
- Fuk 2023
- Fukushima 2017
- Fukushima 2018
- fukushima 2019
- Fukushima 2020
- Fukushima 2021
- general
- global warming
- Humour (God we need it)
- Nuclear
- RARE EARTHS
  - thorium
- Reference
  - Reference archives
- resources – print
- Resources -audiovicual
- Weekly Newsletter
- World
- World Nuclear
- YouTube
RSS
Entries RSS
Comments RSS

The News That Matters about the Nuclear Industry Fukushima Chernobyl Mayak Three Mile Island Atomic Testing Radiation Isotope

Quiet Revolution: Education in Vietnam Drives Poverty Reduction

1 This Month

Categories

Pages

Archives

Categories

RSS

Site info