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Nuclear news this week – not industry handouts

Some bits of good news. 

Girl Goals: What Has Changed for Girls?Adolescent girls’ rights over 30 Years 

Fighting malnutrition in Burundi: Mothers of Light are rays of hope . 

A study found we underestimate how kind the world really is

TOP STORIES. Once seen as a symbolic protest, the nuclear ban treaty is growing teeth. Nuclear war threat: why Africa’s pushing for a complete ban. 

Nuclear Threat Beneath The Seas. 

Walt Zlotow – Why do so many leaders remain stupid about Ukraine war?  

SMRs most expensive of all electricity technologies per kW generation. 

PLANT VOGTLE The True Cost of Nuclear Power in the United States –Extract at ​
https://nuclear-news.net/2025/04/04/plant-vogtle-the-true-cost-of-nuclear-power-in-the-united-states/

Climate. Global warming is ‘exposing’ new coastlines and islands as Arctic glaciers shrink . Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer. Average person will be 40% poorer if world warms by 4C, new research shows.

AUSTRALIA. Trump tariffs spark questions over US alliance. This ain’t no April fools: Nuclear support melts down in proposed nuclear communities. More Australian nuclear news at https://antinuclear.net/2025/04/01/australian-nuclear-news-april-1st-7th/

NUCLEAR ITEMS.

ATROCITIES. International pressure forces Israel to change account of Gaza medics’ killing. What really happened in Bucha? The questions Western media won’t ask.

ECONOMICS.

• Cost of EPR2  : Reporterre publishes a censored alert. Mini nuclear reactor rush has a short half-life – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/04/06/2-b1-cost-of-epr2-reporterre-publishes-a-censored-alert/
• Buyer sought for nuclear energy developer as it collapses into administration.
• Miliband pours £2.7bn into Sizewell nuclear power projectafter EDF cuts stake. https://nuclear-news.net/2025/04/06/2-b1-cost-of-epr2-reporterre-publishes-a-censored-alert/ UK Treasury confident Sizewell C nuclear power investors will soon be ‘teed up’ – crunch time for Sizewell. ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/04/03/1-b1-uk-treasury-confident-sizewell-c-nuclear-power-investors-will-soon-beteed-up-crunch-time-for-sizewell/
• UPDATE ON THE BANKRUPTCY OF USNC – Ultra Safe Nuclear.
• ‘Greedy landlords are cashing in and forcing us out of town’.

OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . The great trek for justice.

Resistance to nuke dump grows in South Copeland.

POLITICS. 

• Germany’s  Conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU)  mulls reactivation of nuclear power plants. 
• Democracy should not be an April Fools’ Day Joke! ‘Another significant show of confidence’ in Sizewell C, – making the total of taxpayers’ money going into the project a staggering £6.4bn).
• Federal regulator approves Canada’s first small modular reactor.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. Iran rejects ‘meaningless’ direct talks with US. With US bombers at the ready, can Trump cut a deal with Iran and avoid a war? Trump’s bombing threat over Iran nuclear programme prompts backlash. Military confrontation ‘almost inevitable‘ if Iran nuclear talks fail: French FM. Iran rejects direct talks with the US over its nuclear programme. Trump Threatens Iran With ‘Bombing’ If Nuclear Deal Is Not Reached. 

EUROPE’S DESPERATE GAMBIT. If the Europeans are serious about peace, they should invite Zelensky to fewer meetings. TRUMP’S PURSUIT OF A UKRAINIAN PEACE: Early Results and Future Prospects. 

Why Ontario won’t consider the nuclear option in its fight over Trump’s tariffs. 

China or America-Who is the warmonger? 

The West has big plans for nuclear power: Will geopolitics play ball

SAFETY.  Unsafe for Russia to restart Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, says Ukraine energy chief.

Pearl Harbor update brings nuclear risk. 

Nuclear site given more time to fix safety breach.

SECRETS and LIES. 

• Britain sent over 500 spy flights to Gaza. 
• Biden Lied About Everything, Including Nuclear Risk, During Ukraine Operation. 
• Meltdown: the toxic culture that helped destroy the Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC).
• Russian sensors suspected of attempting to spy on the UK’s nuclear submarines have been found hidden in the seas around Britain – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/04/07/1-russian-sensors-suspected-of-attempting-to-spy-on-the-uks-nuclear-submarines-have-been-found-hidden-in-the-seas-around-britain/

SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. Swarms of satellites are harming astronomy. Here’s how researchers are fighting back.

April 8, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter | Leave a comment

Nuclear news this week – not industry handouts

Some bits of good news  – Being kind and believing others are kind  – makes you happier than wealth: Happiness Report ranks 150 countries. 

Conservation efforts are bringing species back from the brink, even as overall biodiversity falls. 

Analysis showed climate action is a win for the global economy.

TOP STORIES. Trump threatens bombs if Iran doesn’t make nuclear deal. Netanyahu’s nuclear gamble: The risks of escalation with Iran. 

The US hypocrisy about Israel’s nuclear weapons must stop.
EDF reduces stake in Sizewell C Nuclear as boss sacked.  
Nuclear experts pour cold water on US idea to restore and run Ukrainian power plant. 

European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Finds Ukraine Responsible for Odessa Massacre.

From the archives– Poison in the Heart – The Nuclear Wasting of South Australia,

Climate. Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House.

Noel’s notes. Australia’s MUMS FOR NUCLEAR – propaganda wheels within wheels.

AUSTRALIA. 

• The Australian Electoral Commission is having words with Nuclear for Australia as the group spends $100,000s on its campaign. 
• Proposed Queensland nuclear power plants risk contaminating water supplies in event of disaster, research finds. 
• Avalon Air Show: Arms deals, weapons of destruction and family fun.   
• I’m a Liberal and I want Dutton to drop nuclear. Now’s the perfect time to do it. 
• Why The US Australia Alliance Needs a Rethink. 
• More Australian nuclear news at https://antinuclear.net/2025/03/25/australian-nuclear-news-march-25-31/

NUCLEAR ITEMS

POLITICS. A nuclear Svengali on Capitol Hill?

U.S Dept of Energy Reissues $900M Nuclear SMR Opportunity, Scraps Community Criteria to Focus on Technical Merit.

Will Texas Become ‘the Epicenter of a National Nuclear Renaissance’?- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/03/31/1-b1-will-texas-become-the-epicenter-of-a-national-nuclear-renaissance/

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.

• The US has the power to switch off the UK’s nuclear subs – a big problem as Donald Trump becomes an unreliable partner. Now that Washington is potentially an unreliable ally, the UK needs to revisit its nuclear strategy.
• France’s UK energy apathy poses nuclear problem for Labour.
• Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant to stay in Russian control, Moscow says. Ukraine will have to make territorial concessions – Waltz.
• Ukraine and Israel are not US allies.
• Iran rejects direct nuclear talks with Trump, open to indirect negotiations. US seeks full dismantling of Iran’s nuclear program. Trump warns of ‘bad, bad things’ for Iran if nuclear deal not reached-Trump’s advisor says.
•  I’m Oppenheimer’s grandson: I support Trump’s pursuit of nuclear diplomacy

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

Nuclear news and more – not industry handouts

Some bits of good news 

UNICEF has almost single-handedly prevented the collapse of Afghanistan’s healthcare system.   Armenia and Azerbaijan agree treaty terms to end almost 40 years of conflict

 ‘ All the birds returned’: How a Chinese project led the way in water and soil conservation.

TOP STORIES.Israel Makes Its Most Explicit Statement Of Genocidal Intent Yet.Chris Hedges: The Last Chapter of the Genocide. 
What is the fate of Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant after Trump talks?Zelensky rejects Trump nuclear plan.
How bloated energy supply projections are usually wrong – a history of energy efficiency tells us why.

Climate. Climate impacts may be starting to spiral, but a sub-1.5C world is ‘still possible’. More than 150 ‘unprecedented’ climate disasters struck world in 2024, says UN.

Noel’s notes, Nuclear power is such a mess – Zaporizhzhia plant as the shining example.

AUSTRALIA.

• Complicity of Labor and Liberal in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVzoFd7EwOA 
• A Little More Conversation?   Nuclear Power In Australia:  A Little More Conversation?  
• International ‘nuclear tombs’ are being built, but how do we warn future generations of what’s inside? 
• Dutton’s seat a target in $2m union war against nuclear. 
• Nuclear policy blocking Liberal gains. Liberal supporters launch election ad campaign against Peter Dutton’s plan to build nuclear power plants. Australia: Liberals Against Nuclear launches campaign to return party to core values. “Desperate” Liberals urge Dutton to “stop this stupid nuclear palaver”. ‘Vandals in the White House’ no longer reliable allies of Australia, former defence force chief says. Nuclear policy blocking Liberal gains.  Desperate” Liberals urge Dutton to “stop this stupid nuclear palaver”     Australia: Liberals Against Nuclear launches campaign to return party to core values.  – More Australian nuclear news at https://antinuclear.net/2025/03/19/australian-nuclear-news-18-24-march/

March 24, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter | Leave a comment

Nuclear and related news – not just industry handouts.

Some bits of good news –New Zealand launches largest-ever island rewilding to rescue 300+ species. Naturally Native-Water Vole Restoration. Merely Watching Scenes of Nature Can Reduce Pain, Says New StudyTOP STORIES

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Towards a Eurobomb: The Costs of Nuclear Sovereignty. Europe’s ‘nuclear umbrella’ risks catastrophic escalation.

14 years since Fukushima nuclear disaster: Greenpeace Japan statement. 

Nuclear power’s global stagnation. 

Poisoning the well – The toxic legacy of Cold War uranium mining in western New Mexico. 

The forever wars may be over, but Trump is no peacemaker.

Climate. ‘Global weirding’: climate whiplash hitting world’s biggest cities, study reveals.

AUSTRALIA.

• Australia’s Trump cards. 
• Greens leader Adam Bandt says Australia should walk away from AUKUS in wake of Trump’s tariffs.
• Coalition’s nuclear plan most expensive option for Australia, former US climate official says.
• “Nothing but broken promises”: ICAN Ambassador, Karina Lester calls out Australia’s inaction on the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. 
• More Australian nuclear news at https://antinuclear.net/2025/03/11/australian-nuclear-news-10-17-march/

NUCLEAR ITEMS.

SAFETY. ‘Nervous and rushed’: Massive Fukushima plant cleanup work involves high radiation and stress.

What if a Fukushima-sized nuclear accident happened in Australia? –https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrScaM8ChXk US report discusses possibility of nuclear submarine accident, if subs supplied to Australia.

State Police to Hold Major Radiological Incident Exercise with International, Federal, State and Local Partners.

Incident: Human error leads to water spill at Finnish EPR

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES.

• Labour’s arms exports to Israel exposed Labour allowed dozens of arms exports to Israel after weapons sanctions.
• How multi-billion nuclear weapons facility aims to overcome challenge of limited supply chain.
• Royal Navy: Powerful new nuclear submarines being built costing £41bn – when will they enter the fleet?
• Qatar calls for Israel’s nuclear facilities to be under IAEA supervision.
• The nuclear testing revival: Global fallout with deadly consequences. How many nuclear weapons does the United States have in 2025? – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vsNKk9vkIE.
• We’re #1 in Selling Weapons!
• Europe going nuclear would be a catastrophic mistake. Could Poland and Germany acquire nuclear bombs?- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/03/15/1-b1-could-poland-and-germany-acquire-nuclear-bombs/ Poland’s president urges U.S. to move nuclear warheads to Polish territory. The Script of Anxiety: Poland’s Nuclear Weapons Fascination.
• FT reports. Movements across the world call for an end to all US military exercises on the Korean peninsula.
• Chinese nuclear weapons, 2025.
• An Unreliable America Means More Countries Want the Bomb.
• Canada to review the purchase of US-made F-35 fighter jets in light of Trump’s trade war.

March 18, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter | Leave a comment

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

March 4, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter | Leave a comment

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. .

February 24, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter | Leave a comment

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.

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 .

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

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/

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