A lot of nuclear and related news this past week
Some bits of good news – 27 New UK Tree Cities of the World. How Stockholm Is Sprouting Healthy Trees From Concrete. Degraded Lands Transformed into Productive Farms: With Science, We Can Create Wonders. Once feared extinct, Australia’s most endangered marsupial has had a comeback
TOP STORIES .
“Difficult-to-Return” zones.
Jeffrey Sachs: Negotiating a Lasting Peace in Ukraine. Zelensky’s hostility to peace triggered White House meltdown.
British journalists are celebrating the lack of opposition to war in parliament.
Failure After Failure: Let’s Ditch Small Modular Reactors.
We’ve failed to stop climate change — this is what we need to do next ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/03/09/1-a-weve-failed-to-stop-climate-change-this-is-what-we-need-to-do-next/
Climate. Earth’s strongest ocean current could slow down by 20% by 2050 in a high emissions future. Global Ocean Treaty two years on: Australia’s chance for international cooperation.
Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from 36 fossil fuel firms, study shows. UK’s richest can boost climate action but need to cut outsized emissions – study.
First Trump threatened to nuke hurricanes. Now he’s waging war on weather forecasters.
Noel’s notes. Does the Deep State really exist? And if so, is it being dismantled?
AUSTRALIA. Surface tension: could the promised Aukus nuclear submarines simply never be handed over to Australia?
How US Military Bases in Australia Threaten Our Future & How to Remove Them., More Australian nuclear news at https://antinuclear.net/2025/03/05/australian-nuclear-news-headlines-week-to-11-march/
NUCLEAR ITEMS.
| CLIMATE. Nuclear Power Is the Cuckoo in the Climate Policy Nest.Turbine, cooling: these unforeseen events that keep the Flamanville EPR at a standstill. |
| ECONOMICS. East Lindsey District Council wants to claim costs for nuclear waste site work. |
EDUCATION. University of Suffolk co-opted by the nuclear industry.. |
| EMPLOYMENT. EDF considers plans to revive ‘fish disco’ at Hinkley Point plant ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/03/06/3-b1-edf-considers-plans-to-revive-fish-disco-at-hinkley-point-plant/ |
| ENERGY. Most Contaminated U.S. Nuclear Site Is Set to Be the Largest Solar Farm. |
| ENVIRONMENT. Air Force picks remote Pacific atoll as site for cargo rocket trials. Radioactive pollution is increasing at Britain’s nuclear bases. Fish disco plan revived to protect salmon from Hinkley Point C ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/?s=%E2%80%98Fish+disco%E2%80%99+plan+revived Has common sense finally prevailed at Hinkley Point C? |
| EVENTS. Uranium’s Poison Power in Leafy Cheshire –Remembering Fukushima. |
| INDIGENOUS ISSUES. Mi’kmaw Chiefs send stinging rebuke to Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston. |
| LEGAL. Fukushima victims angered, saddened by TEPCO acquittals. 9-year lawsuit fails to stop Ikata nuclear plant operationsSupreme Court steps into debate over where to store nuclear waste.Nuclear waste at Chalk River: opponents defeated in court – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/03/08/1-b1-nuclear-waste-at-chalk-river-opponents-defeated-in-court/ |
| OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Campaigners attend East Lindsey District Council meeting to call on Lincolnshire County Council to withdraw from Geological Disposal Facility process. |
| PERSONAL STORIES. Nuclear fallout: why Karina Lester is calling on Australia to sign the treaty banning atomic weapons. |
POLITICS
- How the Media Walked us into Autocracy (w/ Ralph Nader) The Chris Hedges Report –https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQZuzIzY8YQ
- Doug Ford: Rip up the GE-Hitachi US nuclear contract.
- Nuclear Policy in Scotland. Nuclear energy has no role in Scotland’s green future. Changing nuclear policy would make ‘SNP as bad as Tories’, MSP warns – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/03/10/1-b1-changing-nuclear-policy-would-make-snp-as-bad-as-tories-msp-warns/
- UK Government slaps down Ian Murray over UN nuclear weapons summit. Keir Starmer’s plan for UK growth – the Ukraine war. Conservatives’ push to identify ‘suitable sites’ for nuclear reactors in Telford and Wrekin is defeated. Keir Starmer faces backbench rebellion over ‘shortsighted’ cuts to aid budget. Keir Starmer tells SNP to reverse nuclear weapons opposition.
POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.
- Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons States agree – the ban is the alternative to reckless nuclear deterrence and proliferation as Third Meeting of States Parties draws to a close.
- Trump plans to make Ukraine a US economic colony, exploiting its critical minerals.
- US Threatens Possible Military Response After Tehran Rejects Nuclear Outreach.
- The Russians aren’t coming, the Russians aren’t coming.
- Europe’s Face-Saving Theater on Ukraine.
- Macron’s Offer: France and the Delusions of Nuclear Deterrence.
- Zelensky reverses hardline position on peace talks.
- Russia agrees to help US in negotiations with Iran over nuclear program, Bloomberg reports.
- Non-Proliferation Treaty ‘struggling’ in new nuclear age, expert warns. One empty seat. UK fails again to send representation to UN nuke conference.
- UK urged to prepare for Donald Trump halting Trident partnership ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/03/09/2-b1-uk-urged-to-prepare-for-donald-trump-halting-trident-partnership/ UK Government ignoring international law on nuclear weapons – experts ALSO At https://nuclear-news.net/2025/03/09/2-b-1-uk-government-ignoring-international-law-on-nuclear-weapons-experts/
- Delays in Trident renewal put our deterrent in peril.
| SAFETY.Ripping up the rules on nuclear power heightens the risk to us all.Cybersecurity in the Nuclear Industry: US and UK Regulation and the Sellafield Case .Is giving old reactors new life the future of nuclear energy?Continued Incidents Raise Concerns Over Nuclear Security, Says UN More than 145 Reports Added to IAEA Incident and Trafficking Database in 2024. |
| SECRETS and LIES. Israeli technician accused of offering country’s nuclear secrets to Iranian regime. |
| TECHNOLOGY. The SMR Gamble: Betting on Nuclear to Fuel the Data Center Boom. |
| URANIUM. Fearing toxic waste, Greenland ended uranium mining. Now, they could be forced to restart – or pay $11bn. |
| WASTES. American companies profit from Canada’s radioactive waste.Supreme Court wrestles with nation’s frustrating search for nuclear waste storage.East Lindsey overwhelmingly backs GDF withdrawal call to Lincolnshire County Council. Bank Head Estate residents attend public meeting over nuke dump blight. ‘Vote out!’: Protestors win motion at ELDC full council to urge county council to withdraw from nuclear dump talks. |
| WAR and CONFLICT. UN summit ‘delivers strongest condemnation yet’ of nuclear deterrence. |
WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES.
- More Guns, Less Butter: Starmer’s Defence Spending Splash . Britain’s nuclear weapons fiasco is a nightmare for Rachel Reeves. Britain’s nuclear submarines bill spirals by £5bn. US support to maintain UK’s nuclear arsenal is in doubt, experts say.
- US poised to house nuclear weapons in Britain for first time in two decades.
- Potentially ‘catastrophic’ use of AI in nuclear weapons systems raised by former Royal Navy boss.
- Air Force Activates Key Unit for Nuclear Modernization at VSFB.
- Trump Pauses All Military Aid to Ukraine.
- It’s time to ditch Virginia subs for AUKUS and go to Plan B.
Another troubling week in nuclear news
Some bits of good news –
10 Ways Investing in Children’s Well-Being Changed the World
China is Rewiring the Global South With Clean Power. We’re making child marriages a thing of the past in Malaysia.
TOP STORIES.
Zelensky needs to go …been risking nuclear war far too long.
What Trump got right about nuclear weapons—and how to step back from the brink.
Global security arrangements “unravelling”, UN chief warns nuclear disarmament conference.
The Supreme Court faces the absurdly difficult problem of where to put nuclear waste.
More powerful than Hiroshima: how the largest ever nuclear weapons test built a nation of leaders in the Marshall Islands.
Climate. A Lawsuit Against Greenpeace Is Meant to Bankrupt It and Deter Public Protests, Environmental Groups Warn. Total collapse of vital Atlantic currents unlikely this century, study finds.
Noel’s notes. Ukraine to soon jump back out of the fire and into the frying-pan?
AUSTRALIA.
- AUKUS ‘impact assessment’ report ignores nuclear submarine risks in South Australia. Not everyone knows acronyms’: Australian politicians shrug off Trump blunder on AUKUS.
- If China can’t scale nuclear, Australia’s got Buckley’s. Nuclear reactors could become targets of war, defence experts warn.
- New report skewers Coalition’s contentious nuclear plan – and reignites Australia’s energy debate. Too slow, too risky, too impractical: Interim senate report pans nuclear. Chinese warships sailing the Tasman Sea expose AUKUS folly.
- Parliamentary inquiry finds nuclear is high risk, zero reward. Peter Dutton abandons global ‘Paris Agreement’ to phase out climate pollution by 2050. Trump-lite: Coalition promises purge of experts who call out nuclear bunkum.
- More Australian nuclear news at https://antinuclear.net/2025/02/26/australian-nuclear-news-week-to-4th-march/
NUCLEAR ITEMS
ECONOMICS.
- New report details nuclear power’s demise. Nuclear power struggling to maintain current level of stagnation, let alone achieve any growth.
- Stop government handouts to EDF for Hinkley Point C. Rachel Reeves eyes cuts to nuclear in spending review. Small modular reactor plans edge closer, amid claims that the technology makes no economic sense .
- EDF appears to consider reduced final stake in Sizewell C to as low as 10% Sellafield nuclear site plans cuts as chief says £2.8bn funding ‘not enough’. Nuclear site warns £2.8bn budget is ‘not enough’. UK construction and engineering firm Costain has secured a multi-millionpound contract to support the construction of the Sizewell C nuclear powerplant -ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/02/28/2-b-uk-construction-and-engineering-firm-costain-has-secured-a-multi-millionpound-contract-to-support-the-construction-of-the-sizewell-c-nuclear-powerplant/
- We can’t afford Doug Ford’s nuclear fantasy.
ENERGY. UK Energy Secretary Signals China Pivot.
ENVIRONMENT. ‘Fish disco’ row risks fresh delays to Hinkley Point nuclear plant.
ETHICS and RELIGION. Archbishop Gallagher: Nuclear weapons pose existential threat.
EVENTS. Nuclear Ban Week – the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). 1 March -Remembering All Nuclear Victims. 6 March – WEBINAR –Arming for Armageddon: How US Militarism could lead to Nuclear War
HEALTH. Nuclear reactors killing Americans at accelerating rate.
LEGAL. SCOTUS goes nuclear: Justices’ decision could seal spent fuel storage options for decades. Beyond Nuclear files two relicensing legal actions.
OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . 93% say NO: latest polls in Lincolnshire condemn nuke dump plan
PERSONAL STORIES. The island priest who fought a nuclear rockets range.
POLITICS.
- Techno-Fascism Comes to America. German election results tilt EU back toward nuclear energy.
- How the Warfare State Paved the Way for a Trumpist Autocracy.
- The Guardian view on UK PM’s gamble: exploiting crisis to remake Labour was a step too far for an ally.
POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. Donald Trump was rude to Zelensky, but he did tell him the hard truths. Zelensky: Victim of Colosseum Politics.
The National goes to the UN: The fight for nuclear disarmament– ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/02/27/1-b1-scotus-goes-nuclear-justices-decision-could-seal-spent-fuel-storage-options-for-decades/
US correct to vote against UN resolution solely condemning Russia for Ukraine war. The pro-war lobby in the West needs to come up with new ideas, rather than saying the same old things.
SAFETY. United States: White House Threatens Nuclear Regulatory Commission‘s Independence. IAEA Director General Statement on Fire Situation in Chernobyl nuclear station. Ontario’s outdated nuclear vision poses serious safety and financial risks.
A Single Trumputin Drone Can Turn the “Peaceful Atom” Into World War 3. Vladimir Putin right now has in his sights nearly The physical hazards of nuclear energy. IAEA mission arrives at nuclear plant in Ukraine through Russia.
URANIUM. As tensions rise, Canada to lean on U.S. for uranium enrichment.
WASTES. Tonnes of nuclear waste to be sent back to Europe. Hinkley Point C will be a Sellafield waste dump . Nuclear Decommissioning Authority budget raises Sellafield safety concerns. Public concern increasing about nuclear waste shipments west of Sudbury. Election candidates should face nuclear waste questions: group.
WAR and CONFLICT. Israel seen as likely to attack Iran’s nuclear sites by midyear.
WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES.
The Pentagon and Starlink Satellites.
Nuclear weapons are ‘one-way road to annihilation’ warns Guterres.
Iran on ‘high alert’ amid fears of attack on nuclear sites. Starmer drags
Britain deeper into war drive. Reawakening a Nuclear Legacy: The Potential Return of the
US Nuclear Mission to RAF Lakenheath. John Swinney: UK’s nu
clear deterrent offers ‘no tangible benefit’. As Freed Palestinians Describe Torture,
Trump OKs $3 Billion Arms Package for Israel.
Nuclear news – week to 25 February.
Some bits of good news. Nine Asian countries have halved child mortality since 2000. The Global South is deploying renewables twice as fast as the Global North. Arctic Cleanup removes 130 tons of trash and aims to improve trash cleanups worldwide
—very difficult now to stay off the subjects of Ukraine and Israel, but I have tried… (both are so on the nuclear brink)
TOP STORIES. Democrats want nothing to do with making peace in Ukraine and possibly preventing nuclear war.
President Trump Wants to Cut the Pentagon Budget in Half. How?Trump Looks to Correct a Disastrous 1990’s Mistake.
Conveniently forgotten and ignored – the 8 years war in Ukraine up to 2022 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYKetrodpoY
From the archives. Restless radioactive remains are still stirring in Chernobyl’s nuclear tomb.
Climate, World’s glaciers melting faster than ever recorded.
Noel’s notes. A dramatic development in the Ukraine situation.
NUCLEAR ITEMS
ECONOMICS
- UK’s Hinkley Point C nuclear plant yet to attract new investors, says EDF boss. UK government in “poor negotiating position” as Centrica vague about investing in the new Sizewell C nuclear power station.
- Uncertain nuclear partnership: Negotiations between ČEZ and Rolls-Royce.groups raise $1.5bn amid race to power AI boom. At Great Cost: The companies building nuclear weapons and their financiers show 260 profiteers from the nuclear weapons industry.
- X-Energy threatens to pull out of building nuclear plants in Britain. Amazon-backed nuclear power developer X-Energy threatens to move investment away from UK.
- Rolls-Royce ‘resists pressure’ to put Czech parts in mini-nuclear reactors. .
| MEDIA. Film Review- Special Operation: The Invasion of Chornobyl. |
| PERSONAL STORIES. Heartbreaking tale of American deformed by nuclear radiation who was abandoned and viewed as a ‘monster’. |
| POLITICS. French State Spars With EDF Over Multibillion-Euro Reactor Plan . UK Government Revisiting the nuclear roadmap Inquiry, UK’s first new nuclear site since the 1970s begins licensing. Starmer’s shortsighted push for more nuclear power. Louth MP welcomes council’s decision to pull out of nuclear waste dump group. Greens opposed to nuclear power plant plans. UK to Partner with Big Tech on Nuclear Powered Data Centers . Technogarchy Goes to Washington.. |
| POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. Amid ‘clear’ threat of nuclear war, Guterres tells Security Council multilateral off-ramp is essential. Trump can’t denuclearize North Korea. South Korea’s next leader should pursue risk reduction instead. Hating Trump no reason to oppose Trump Ukraine peace initiative. |
| SAFETY. Incidents. IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine. Efforts continue to eliminate fires in Chernobyl shelter’s roof. Nuclear expert issues Chernobyl update after it emerges fires are still burning. Damage to Chernobyl shelter being assessed after drone strike – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC3Wz5oX68I “Radioactive Russian Roulette” at San Onofre: Exposing Critical Safety Failures. NFLA Policy Briefing 313: Correspondence with the Nuclear Regulator over AGR Extensions .5.0-magnitude quake strikes off Japan’s Fukushima: JMA. |
| SECRETS and LIES. Burying The CIA’s Assange Secrets. |
| TECHNOLOGY. Dr. Gordon Edwards Testifies on the BWRX-300 Reactor Design Feb 9 2025. Pioneering micro nuclear reactors to be built in Britain, |
| WASTES. Debris extracted from Fukushima nuclear plant revealed to media. So Called Small Modular Reactors Would Be Nuclear Nightmares. Nuclear waste dump agency pumps money into community projects in Mablethorpe. Ancient historic sites under threat from South Copeland nuke waste dump- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/02/19/1-b-ancient-historic-sites-under-threat-from-south-copeland-nuke-waste-dump/NWMO closing Teeswater office, to dispose of DGR site lands. |
| WAR and CONFLICT. US Strategic Bombers Fly Near Gaza as Israel Threatens To Open ‘Gates of Hell’ |
| WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. New Zealand’s Rocket Lab ‘ready to serve’ Pentagon. Why it would be a bad idea for the Trump administration to conduct a “rapid” nuclear test. Donald Trump wants to end nuclear weapons funding. |
The past week in nuclear news
Some bits of good news. The Revival of Germany’s Carbon-Sequestering Peatlands. Australia’s renewable energy growth doubles in six months. Three good things: projects clearing up junk that’s hidden from view.
TOP STORIES. Netanyahu’s Quest to Attack Iran’s nuclear facilities with the ‘Mother of all Bombs’.
Anatomy of an AI Coup.
The Pentagon Is Recruiting Elon Musk To Help Them Win a Nuclear War.
High-Explosive Drone Pierces Shell Of Chernobyl Nuclear Plant At Very Moment Trump Pushes Ukraine Toward Peace.
Climate. World’s sea-ice falls to record low. Two-thirds of Americans still believe climate change is impacting the Earth, despite what Trump contends.
Noel’s notes. Small Nuclear Reactors: Big safety problems, and who pays the piper? “Jobs Jobs Jobs!” screams the nuclear lobby.
AUSTRALIA. Dutton’s nuclear disaster: Cheap lies and a $20 billion deficit. Why are young people like this 18-year-old fronting the pro-nuclear push in Australia? American or Trump’s values, or are they the same? Nuclear advocates: Splitting atoms and spinning agendas. Australia’s technocratic drive to nuclear ignorance. more Australian nuclear news headlines at https://antinuclear.net/2025/02/13/australian-nuclear-news-10-17-february/
NUCLEAR ITEMS
ART and CULTURE.
Why Welsh speakers oppose Wylfa nuclear plant.
ECONOMICS.
- The £40bn nuclear project at risk of becoming another British white elephant. ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/02/12/2-a-the-40bn-nuclear-project-at-risk-of-becoming-another-british-white-elephant/
- Can the nuclear industry find a better way to build?
- Octopus Energy launches renewables investment platform for consumers.
- South Korea increases support for domestic nuclear industry.
- NUCLEAR BRIBERY: Nuclear Waste Services funds Cumbrian community projects.
- Marketing. India PM Modi ends foreign tour with nuclear deals in pipeline.
| EMPLOYMENT. US government tries to rehire nuclear staff it fired days ago.There really ARE necessary nuclear industry jobs – IN DEMOLISHING NUCLEAR REACTORS! |
| ENERGY Prioritizing nuclear power and natural gas over renewable energy is a risky move for Ontario’s energy future. Green power– not for us? |
| ENVIRONMENT ‘Nothing prepared us for Sizewell C devastation‘. Nuclear Free Local Authorities back petition to save fish at Hinkley C. Nuclear waste plan ‘would scar Lincolnshire Wolds‘. |
EVENTS.
- 19 February – WEBINAR. International Update: Nuclear Waste Burial Programs in the UK, US and EU | Nuclear Waste Online 2025.
- 21 February WEBINAR . What Scientists Are Telling Us About Radiation that Nuclear Boosters Won’t.
- 22 February Drone Wars Online Day Conference.
- 23 February GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION TO CLOSE BASES. – https://worldbeyondwar.org/closebases/
- Third Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons .
| HEALTH. Doctors fear health fallout from nuclear energy plans |
| MEDIA. Media must unshackle itself. |
| OPPOSITION TO NUCLEAR Opposition mounts to planned nuclear plant as Starmer confirms new policy of ‘Build, baby, build’. Sizewell C campaigners slammed “clueless” Government. |
| SAFETY.Oops! Trump accidentally fired hundreds of federal workers who maintain our nuclear weapons. Warning sent about need for strategic policing reform to address security of SMRs. Safety Issues and Impact on Marine Environment of Extension of British Nuclear Plant Lifespan Queried by NGO. Would a fallout shelter really protect you in a nuclear blast?‘ Deeply Concerned’ Dems Want to Know If DOGE Can Access Nuclear Weapons Data. Incident. A drone pierced the outer shell of Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear plant. Radiation levels are normal. |
| SECRETS and LIES. Engineer who worked on Hinkley Point C nuclear project quizzed on suspicion of being a Russian spy, The Coventry experiment: why were Indian women in Britain given radioactive food without their consent? Secret terror blueprints for US NSC to ‘help Ukraine resist’ exposed. |
| WAR and CONFLICT. NFLAs endorse international appeal for justice over French nuclear tests. |
| WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES .A New Military-Industrial Complex Arises. Trump wants Russia, China to stop making nuclear weapons, so all can cut defence spending by half. Trump Promises Billions in Defense Cuts. Will U.S. resume nuclear testing? America’s nuclear gamble: The dangerous push to resume atmospheric testing. Trident nuclear submarine project rated “unachievable” third year running. UK Government urged to scrap nuclear weapons ‘once and for all’. |
Nuclear news this week
Some bits of goodnews – The world has probably passed “peak air pollution”. Solar overtakes coal in Europe for the first time in 2024. Nine new protected areas across South America.
TOP STORIES.
As China and the U.S. Race Toward A.I. Armageddon, Does It Matter Who Wins?
How Australia’s CANDU Conservatives Fell in Love with Canadian Nuclear.Trump Says He’ll Audit the Pentagon-Will it prove to be a bridge too far?–
It’s money that has stopped nuclear power, not planning problems.
Climate. Hottest January on record shocks scientists. Half a degree rise in global warming will triple area of Earth that is ‘too hot for humans’. Greenland ice sheet cracking more rapidly than ever, study shows. Children ‘gripped by climate change anxiety’
Noel’s notes. Swallow the nuclear spin, baby, swallow the spin! My favourite despicable Australian politician (Richard Marles).
AUSTRALIA. Explained: Why nuclear power has been banned in Australia for more than 25 years. Honest Government Ad | Nuclear – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBqVVBUdW84 Lies, damned lies and Coalition energy economics: Dutton’s latest nuclear claim slammed . More Australian nuclear news at https://antinuclear.net/2025/02/04/australian-nuclear-news-headlines-february-4-11/
NUCLEAR ITEMS
| CLIMATE. UAE Turns to Satellites to Shield Region’s Only Nuclear Plant From Climate Risks. |
| ECONOMICS. France’s top audit body questions feasibility of EDF’s nuclear plans. New UK data sends nuclear warning for Australia . |
| EMPLOYMENT. Nuclear delusion in Ynys Môn will deny islanders green jobs. |
| ENERGY. With calls for nuclear, are Scottish Labour stuck in the 70s? |
| ENVIRONMENT. Concern UK’s AI ambitions could lead to water shortages. Requiem for the trees. |
| EVENTS. 15 – 29 March – 2025 Virtual Film Festival: The Untold Stories of Nuclear Weapons |
| POLITICS. ‘Build baby build’, says UK PM as he sets out nuclear plan. NUCLEAR NIGHTMARE: SOLAR REVOLUTION.UK Government rips up rules to fire-up nuclear power. Starmer pledges to ‘build, baby, build’ as green groups criticise nuclear plans. Starmer’s “anti-democratic” push to put Nuclear Reactors incommunities without consultation. The twelve ideal sites for mini nuclear reactors, according to an expert. Planners recommended against nuclear plant in 2019 citing fears for Welsh language. Is “Bad Faith”‘s Council for National Policy the Atlas Network’s half-brother? |
| POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. Trump, Who Tore Up Iran Nuclear Deal, Calls for Iran Nuclear Deal. Trump says he wants new nuclear deal letting Iran ‘prosper’. Trump and the global nuclear order |
| SAFETY.Ministers will relax rules to build small nuclear reactors – ALSO AT…. https://antinuclearinfo.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=298129&action=edit&calypsoify=1 Russian attacks near Ukrainian nuclear infrastructure heighten scrutiny of Kyiv’s preparedness. IAEA chief, in Kyiv, warns of nuclear risk from attacks on Ukraine grid.If DOGE goes nuclear. Incident. Two workers contaminated with radioactive material at Borssele nuclear plant |
| SECRETS and LIES. Hinkley Point plays down reports of suspected ‘spy’ at nuclear power plant. Engineer who worked on Hinkley Point C nuclear project quizzed on suspicion of being a Russian spy. |
| SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. Falling space debris is increasingly threatening airplanes, researchers say. |
| SPINBUSTER. UK’s new government taxonomy will greenwash nuclear.A former Miss America takes her nuclear sales pitch to audiences in Australia. |
| TECHNOLOGY. Google deletes policy against using AI for weapons or surveillance. OpenAI Strikes Deal With US Government to Use Its AI for Nuclear Weapon Security. |
| URANIUM. Uranium fever collides with industry’s dark past in Navajo country. |
| WASTES. Nuclear Dump “Reveal” of “Areas of Focus.” A Nuclear Dump Anywhere is a Nuclear Dump Everywhere – #GDFOFF. Threat of nuke dump falls on Cumbrian and Lincolnshire rural communities. Hidden history of RAF airfield may be lost in latest nuke dump plan. Council votes to end Holderness nuclear waste talks. |
| WAR and CONFLICT. Doomsday Clock Needs Adjusting. |
| WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. The national missile defense fantasy—again. Trump Asks Congress To Approve $1 Billion Arms Transfer to Israel. Local opinion: Raytheon pushes The Doomsday Clock closer to midnight. Top Pentagon contractors poised for gains as Trump pushes missile shield expansion. US failed to track weapons sent to Ukraine – Reuters. Elon Musk Can Find His $2-Trillion Federal Spending Cut in Nuclear Weapons. Elon Musk On The Future Of Warfare – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfs11RIKtI8 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vows to further develop nuclear forces |
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