“……..Australia lost the capacity to make the radioactive isotope iodine-123 – used in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer in the nerve cells of children – just over a decade ago with the closure of the National Medical Cyclotron in Camperdown, NSW. ………
But according to Ansto, iodine-123 is needed in clinical settings by about a dozen patients around Australia at any one time – most of them children with neuroblastoma. This means Australia now relies on imports from Japan. But with a half-life of just over 13 hours – meaning the levels of radioactivity halve every 13 hours – this isotope needs to be distributed to Australian hospitals and health centres very quickly. It expires within 33 hours of being manufactured in Japan. “The challenge with transporting nuclear medicine is the products have a short half-life,” Ian Martin, the general manager of Ansto Health, told Guardian Australia. “We need to get the isotopes from point A to point B before they decay too much to be effective, a complex task when B is in another hemisphere.” ………. Guardian, 11 Aug 2020,
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Because ANSTO shut down cyclotron, Australia has the problem of importing a short-lived medical isotope
January 16, 2021Why did ANSTO shut down National Medical Cyclotron, that made medical isotopes without nuclear waste?
January 14, 2021
Australian and other nuclear news this week
January 11, 2021Midst all of the Trumpian circus, and the dire problems of the pandemic, it’s hard to find news about the underlying grave problems of the climate. I did vow to stay off that subject. But that’s hard to do, when global heating has accelerated over 2020, when it should have been a cooler year, with La Nina prevailing. Not only accelerating – climate change is here with us. The Earthbound Report lists 10 big impacts in 2020.
But – to return to the nuclear, it hasn’t been just a background problem lately, as the Washington mayhem raises anxieties about Donald Trump’s finger on the trigger of nuclear war.
A bit of good news – The good news hidden within one of America’s darkest weeks
AUSTRALIA.
Australian govt has quiet nuclear deal with China, but condemns Victoria-China medical research.
The Australian government’s shameful record in the Kimba nuclear dump fiasco. Government’s Kimba nuclear waste dump slush fund – benefit goes straight to Kimba’s mayor.
Treaty – a step on the long path towards nuclear disarmament..
End of an ERA: four decades of radioactive risk come to an end at Kakadu. Clean-up plan for Ranger uranium mine is ”woefully inadequate”.
Scott Morrison should change his mind and call Trump to end bizarre Assange saga.
INTERNATIONAL
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: The Road There and the Road Ahead. Beatrice Fihn: How to implement the nuclear weapons ban treaty.
Multinational effort could help solve U.S.-Russia nuclear issue.
Geopolitics Of Nuclear Generation Delayed Renewables By Decades To Fossil Fuel Industry Benefit, Our Detriment.
Ten compelling reasons to stay away from nuclear power .
Judge’s refusal to extradite Julian Assange is still part of cowardly process to deny freedom of information.
JAPAN. High court drops TEPCO’s appeal against order for compensation to affected Fukushima worker. Radiation levels at Fukushima plant found worse and more lethal than previously assumed. Only 30% of Fukushima residents happy with disaster recovery progress.
INDIA. Military strategy relying on nuclear weapons – a dangerous myth.
CANADA. Canada vocal about nuclear disarmament, but silent about the Treaty for Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Canada shows how nuclear reactors are not needed for production of technetium-99m. Creating jobs and community opportunities -Pickering City Council wants immediate dismantling of nuclear station.
UK.
- Assange denied bail after extradition blocked, will appeal to UK High Court.
- Massive nuclear waste storage construction at Dounreay.
- British tax-payers’ £ 132 billion cost for 120 years of nuclear decommissioning.
- Should £25 billion Hinkley C plant go ahead, with so many safety issues not solved?
- Nuclear power – a dubious and very costly addition in UK’s energy plan.
- Most Maldon District Councillors oppose Bradwell big nuclear development: small reactors would carry the same dangers.
- Hitachi pulls plug on Horizon nuclear subsidiary. UK’s Wylfa nuclear power plan – Council approval is postponed again.
- Hinkley Point C mud dredging – radioactive mud could be dumped off Somerset instead of south Wales.
- UK & Ireland Nuclear Free Local Authorities (NFLA) oppose underground coal mine – dangerously close to Sellafield’s radioactive waste.
- 18 Cold War-era nuclear bunkers dotted around Cambridgeshire.
USA.
- Donald Trump the Worst President in the History of the United States.
- Could Trump start a nuclear war?- a satchel, a biscuit and a football. Trump Still Has His Finger on the Nuclear Button. This Must Change. USA Congress Speaker Nancy Pelosi asks military to stop Donald Trump accessing nuclear codes. According to experts, the U.S. military cannot legally prevent Trump’s accessto nuclear codes. What happens to the nuclear bomb codes, if Trump avoids the inauguration of Biden?
- The risk of USA – Iran military showdown before Trump leaves office.
- Biden Plans Renewed Nuclear Talks With Russia While Punishing Kremlin.
- January 25 Takoma Park Commemorating ‘Nuclear-Free Zone’ with Virtual Film Screening,
- Grand Gulf nuclear plant in Mississippi raises concerns about nuclear power .
- Ohio lawmakers still don’t know what to do about corruptly instituted nuclear bailout law. Failure by Ohio Republican leadership to repeal nuclear bailout law.
- Holtec wants to build new nuclear reactor at site of USA’s oldest, most dangerous nuclear station. Decommissioning of Oyster Creek nuclear station – a nasty precedent for closing down of other USA reactors.
- 183 workers at Waste Isolation Pilot Plant infected with COVID-19.
ITALY. Seven regions in Italy to take legal action against plan for nuclear waste dumping. Beautiful Italian regions furious at sites recommended for nuclear trash.
IRAN. Iran will expel U.N. nuclear inspectors unless sanctions are lifted.
NORTH KOREA. Kim Jong Un signals plans to develop new nuclear weapons.
INDONESIA. Indonesia’s nuclear ambitions could prove disastrous for the Southeast Asian region.
FRANCE. France’s declining nuclear production. Nuclear in France: why bother? This technology is on the way out. France conducts enhanced thermonuclear missile test. Government control over nuclear and radiation information; firing of sociologist Christine Fassert.
ISRAEL. Restoring Iran nuclear deal is good for Israel.
LEBANON. Lebanon’s Hezbollah chief says nuclear button with “crazy fool” Trump.
Australian government hypocrisy about its new nuclear reactor deal with China
January 8, 2021Double standards on research cooperation with China, Independent Australia 4 January 2021, The Government is hypocritical in its approval of Australia’s nuclear research body to work with China on the development of nuclear reactors, writes Noel Wauchope.
PRIME MINISTER Scott Morrison’s Liberal Coalition Government seems to remain in silent approval of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation’s (ANSTO) partnership with a Chinese company to develop Generation IV nuclear technologies such as small nuclear reactors.
But it’s a different story when it comes to the Morrison Government’s concern to put a stop to the Victorian Labor Government’s cooperation with China in developing agricultural, communications and medical research.
We hear very little about the Australian Government’s research connections with China, managed under the Australia-China Science and Research Fund (ACSRF), which has the aim of ‘supporting strategic science, technology and innovation collaboration of mutual benefit to Australia and China’.
One remarkable collaboration between Australia and China is in the strategic partnership between ANSTO and the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP) to develop the Thorium Molten Salt Nuclear Reactor (TMSR) and other Generation IV nuclear reactor designs.
In March 2019, Dr Adi Paterson, then CEO of ANSTO, welcomed renewal of this agreement and was reported as stating that it was “consistent with ANSTO and Australia’s interest in and support of Generation IV reactor systems”. This statement was made at a time when Australia’s federal and state laws clearly prohibited the development of nuclear reactors.
The Age quoted anonymous senior Federal Government sources who reveal that the Australian Government may use its powers to tear up a research agreement between the Victorian Government and China’s Jiangsu province. This agreement was signed in 2012 and renewed in 2019……….
The USA partly funds the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, which strongly advises against cooperative research with China. And, of course, Victorian Liberal Opposition leader Michael O’Brien was quick to join in the chorus, condemning the Labor Government for having the deal with China.
All this makes it all the more inexplicable as to why the Australian Government should have an agreement with China to develop nuclear reactors. Under federal law, Australia prohibits establishing nuclear installations. ……..
There has been virtually no media coverage of Dr Adi Paterson’s deal with China, which goes back to 2015. I have previously written about this and the secrecy under which it was conducted.
Indeed, ANSTO’s operations and its funding have been conducted in secrecy, under the comfortable shroud of national security.
Right now, there is a move to corporatise the nuclear medicine facility at Lucas Heights as a separate entity to ANSTO. At the same time, the Government is in an unseemly rush to set up a nuclear waste dump near Kimba in South Australia. In the midst of all this came the sudden unexplained resignation of the CEO, Dr Adi Paterson.
The silence on all this is disturbing. It must be especially so for the small rural community of Kimba and for the Indigenous Title Holders as they wait in limbo for the vexed question of the nuclear waste dump to be solved. For the rest of South Australia, that is a concern, too. Victorians may well wonder why their medical research cooperation with China is seen as so dangerous. Meanwhile, is it okay for Australia’s nuclear research body, ANSTO, to work with China on the development of small nuclear reactors? https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/double-standards-on-research-cooperation-with-china,14664
Nuclear news – Week One of 2021 – Australia and more
January 4, 2021“News” is by its nature , all about the bad stuff, while the majority of people, trying to live a decent, co-operative, life, are not reported. No surprise the, that 2020 news has been all about the bad stuff.
And bad it has been, and still is, with world-wide coronavirus cases heading to 90 million, and economic disruption resulting from the situation. At the same time, global heating moves on inexorably, with polar ice melting changing the world ecosystem.
The pandemic and global heating have been, still are, the defining problems of our time. BUT, the nuclear danger is equally important, and it is the one that could be addressed, if the deceptive propaganda of the nuclear industry were to be countered. The industry has done a great job of keeping its issues out of the public eye, with its subtle theme that only technical experts can have an opinion.
That’s why, reluctantly, I decided to concentrate on nuclear issues, and leave those other critical topics to the media.
This month is especially important, with the coming into force of the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, on January 22. There will be voices rubbishing this Treaty. But it complements existing agreements, and most significantly it will make nuclear weapons look, (like chemical and biological ones), unacceptable and immoral as well as illegal
Some bits of good news -Amid 2020’s gloom, there are reasons to be hopeful about the climate in 2021.
What went right in 2020: some big wins for the environment, society and culture, human rights, even health.
AUSTRALIA.
The Australian government’s shameful record in the Kimba nuclear dump fiasco.
The decay of mainstream media in Australia – and the rise of new independent media. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corpse rises in ABC Insiders .
INTERNATIONAL
Legal case on extradition of Julian Assange is an alarming precedent for freedom of speech.
Pandemic, climate, nuclear weapons – lessons for survival in 2021.This is the sort of letter that citizens need to be writing – in support of the nuclear weapons ban.
Mary Olson on the 6 mentors who guided her on gender and radiation study.
The Nuclear Industry’s Really Bad Safety Analysis.
How the USA and Soviet Union planned to use nuclear radiation as a weapon.
Get ready for a 2021 barrage of pro nuclear spin, from a desperate industry.
JAPAN. Fukushima nuclear clean-up hugely affected by discovery of lethal radiation levels. Tokyo Olympics Impossible. Never give up! 95 year old Hibakusha welcomes the UN nuclear ban treaty. In March 2011 Japan’s government considered evacuating the then Emperor Akihito further away from Fukushima.
USA.
- Donald Trump left a hawkish nuclear weapons mess, but Joe Biden can make a lot of improvements, on his own. USA show of force -flying nuclear bombers over Iran. Joe Biden reported to be considering cuts to America’s $1.2trillion nuclear modernization program.
Plowshare anti nuclear-weapons activists again face prison . Joe Biden must end the cover-up of, and the huge money to, Israel’s nuclear weapons. Nuclear Command and Control: Session 3 of the Congressional Study Group. LGBTQ Activists Jump Into the Atlantic to upport Treaty banning nuclear weapons. Biden Wants US Back in Iran Nuclear Deal (Video).
Doubtful that aging Los Alamos National Laboratory could safely produce plutonium triggers, no matter how much funding it gets.
- Avril Haines is unfit for Director of National Intelligence, with her history of coverup of tortures.
- Never mind health spending: USA aims to be Topp in Space Race.
- Ohio Supreme Court stops collection of nuclear plant subsidy.
- Hanford’s dangerous collection of nuclear waste sites, including 177 underground leaky tanks. USA is not facing up to the climate threats to its nuclear wastes.
- Extending the operating licences on nuclear reactors to 60, 80, 100 years – a recipe for disaster.
- The Shoshone Nation’s battle against nuclear racism and trespassers on indigenous land.
- Non violent anti-nuclear action – the Clamshell Alliance model for success.
UK.
- Brexit: UK and Euratom have signed a Nuclear Cooperation Agreement (NCA).
- Scotland wants no part in the Tories’ latest nuclear energy folly.
- In so many ways, Sizewell C nuclear plan is a bad deal for Britain, and especially for climate action. Cover-up! how consumers will be forced to pay for cost-overruns for Sizewell C nuclear construction. Sisters, aged 9 and 11, plead to UK PM to save environment from Sixewell C nuclear project.
- New delay in planning decision for £16bn Wylfa nuclear development on Anglesey. Bechtel, Westinghouse and Southern Company’s hopeless case to save shambolic Wylfa nuclear project. With all the costs and delays – why not scrap the Wylfa nuclear project right now?
- Glenn Greenwald: Julian Assange’s Imprisonment Exposes U.S. Myths About Freedom.
POLAND. Trump’s nuclear construction deal with Poland – strained with Biden victory ?
SOUTH KOREA. South Korean government to cut nuclear power generation.
CANADA. Small modular reactor plan – a dangerous distraction from climate change action. The gigantic Chalk River Mound (the so-called ‘NSDF’) would not reduce Canada’s radioactive waste liabilities and could in fact increase them.
INDONESIA. In Indonesia – small nuclear reactors as a prelude to nuclear weapons?
SLOVAKIA. Slovakia: Krško nuclear power station shut down as a precaution after quake.
TURKEY. Turkey’s aspirations to become a nuclear weapons power.
RUSSIA. How a Soviet spy helped to avoid nuclear war.
A short burst of nuclear news – Australia and more
December 28, 2020The good news from 2020: 10 sunny stories from an otherwise dark year.
In ‘Huge Victory for Polar Bears’, Court Rejects Arctic Offshore Drilling Project. U.S. “climate mayors” are hopeful that a Biden administration will help cities accelerate progress toward climate goals.
AUSTRALIA
Curiouser and curiouser – the dishonest acrobatics of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO)
Cowardly silence from South Australia’s Premier on nuclear waste dump plan. Australia’s lying Minister for Resources gets an “F” in assessment of govt ministers.
INTERNATIONAL
The Madness of Nuclear Deterrence.
Nuclear power ridiculously expensive and uncompetitive – the market has spoken.
ARCTIC. Russia marketing small nuclear reactors to the Arctic , (who cares about the toxic wastes?).
JAPAN. Fukushima nuclear debris removal to be delayed due to pandemic.
USA.
- A scary reality, Trump still has the nuclear codes. Donald Trump’s dangerous nuclear legacy. In USA’s economic and health crisis – nuclear weapons spending is booming. $128 billion next-generation submarine program at risk of cost overruns. Joe Biden administration might consider cutting nuclear weapons spending.
- Nuclear weapons agency updates Congress on hacking attempt.
- Draft EIS on Versatile Test Reactor (VTR); Lacking Justification and Due to Proliferation Risks, VTR Project Must Not Go Forward.. USA’s Dept of Energy pouring $millions into gimmicky new untested nuclear projects. U.S. Congress approves nuclear energy funding for Financial Year 2021. Trump Signs Directive to Bolster Nuclear Power in Space . Biden flirts with the fantasy of small nuclear reactors as the cure for climate change.
- Exploration.
- Former SCANA CEO to plead guilty on another charge for failed nuclear plant project. Ohio House Fails To Take Any Action On Nuclear Bailout Law.
- USS Calhoun County sailors dumped thousands of tons of radioactive waste into ocean.
UK. Unacceptable secrecy by the nuclear industry in Sizewell documentation. UK’s quest for nuclear fusion. No acknowledgment, no compensation, for a British nuclear test hero.
EUROPE. Chinese demands on nuclear power investment complicate EU talks. Marketing nuclear technology to Slovakia.
UKRAINE. Are forest fires unlocking radiation in Chernobyl? Dredging of the Pripyat river poses danger of Chernobyl radioactivity to drinking water of 8 million people. Storage of Chernobyl nuclear waste – in reality unsafe for 1000s of years.
SOUTH KOREA. South Korea: mayors and governors of all 17 major cities and provinces call on Japan not to dump Fukushima radioactive water into the ocean.
NORTH KOREA. Economic crisis forces North Korea to put new nuclear parade facilities on ice..
BELARUS. EU visit to Belarus nuclear plant called off, deepening safety concerns.
IRAN. Iran nuclear deal: ‘Heated rhetoric and the heightened risk of miscalculation’ widen differences.
CHINA. China rejects reports of hitch in investment pact talks with EU.
RUSSIA. Russia keenly marketing nuclear technology to Bolivia. Russian Army Chief Warns of Nuclear Risks in Cyber Hacks, Space . Russia’s nuclear-powered ice-breaker in trouble.
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) – lying and incompetent over Napandee nuclear waste dump fiasco
December 27, 2020it does not matter what are the capabilities of the expert eventually selected by the tender offer as this will not overcame either the inherently unsuitable nature of Napandee for the government’s facility or the gross lack of regulatory compliance by the government of the internationally prescribed safety codes and regulatory requirements for the Napandee facility
the disgraceful and insincere performance by the ANSTO management
28 Dec 20, It is amazing how much information you are given by various sources once you have begun to expose situations of improper or unfair conduct at a public level
I have just found out that ANSTO has approached two overseas experts in the field of nuclear waste to submit tenders in response to the tender offer published on 11 December 2021
In both instances the experts were told that their prime tasks would be the corporatisation of the nuclear medicine facility at Lucas Heights as a separate entity to ANSTO and to establish the nuclear waste management facility at Napandee as planned by the federal government
It was suggested that the route to corporatise the nuclear medicine facility is now quite clear due to recent management changes at ANSTO
This probably relates to the resignation in rather unusual circumstances of Adrian Paterson as the chief executive officer of ANSTO since he was apparently against the corporate plans for the production of nuclear medicine
It was explained to the experts as to the other task that the Napandee facility has to reach operational status as quickly as possible and at the same time to discredit or prohibit the Azark Project underground repository at Leonora as this was proving a major embarrassment to the government
The words apparently used with regard to Azark were to “torpedo it” or “sink it”
It was suggested that the Leonora facility would cut across the efforts of the government to find a suitable location for the final disposal of the intermediate level waste which can only be stored at Napandee on a temporary basis
As neither of these experts has any presence in Australia which is a requirement of the tender ANSTO actually mentioned a couple of local groups who would be prepared to collaborate with those experts
While I am presently unable to verify this fact it seems that one of the overseas experts is linked with another expert group which is already a consultant for the Azark Project and it was also suggested that this consultancy be terminated as part of the tender process
If this can be established surely it is an attempt to lessen completion which becomes misleading and unconscionable conduct in trade or commerce under the Australian Consumer Law or is ANSTO exempt from any liability by Crown privilege?
However it does not matter what are the capabilities of the expert eventually selected by the tender offer as this will not overcame either the inherently unsuitable nature of Napandee for the government’s facility or the gross lack of regulatory compliance by the government of the internationally prescribed safety codes and regulatory requirements for the Napandee facility
You only need to watch the disgraceful and insincere performance by the ANSTO management at the Senate estimates committee hearing on 29 October 2020 including the inability to answer various questions which stemmed mainly from information I had given to the committee members
ANSTO has over 1,000 employees yet still suffers from gross errors in its operations and planning with seemingly little overview of its activities – moreover it remains a mystery what all these employees do because little realistic research and development has come from ANSTO.
No parliamentery sanctions for Australia’s Resources Minister, Keith Pitt, despite his lies and wrong statements
December 26, 2020
Silent Steven Marshall – cowardly silence from South Australia’s Premier on nuclear waste dump plan
December 25, 2020This week in nuclear news, Australia and more
December 22, 2020‘Tis the season to be jolly. But, honestly, I can’t. If you want to know what’s really going on in this human-species-afflicted planet, I recommend Radio Ecoshock. Here you will learn about Climate Collapse & The Plastic Plague
It’s not about some distant future problem. It’s about now, and how we are living on a trashed planet. And we’re and adding more to this with all our festive junk and unnecessary gifts.
Having said that – there are so many good people trying to clean up, and keep clean, our fragile planet. For some examples – I recommend 99 Good News Stories From 2020 You Probably Didn’t Hear About.
Also, I am reading “The Good Germans – resisting the NAZIs 1933 – 1945“, by Catrine Clay. I find this book a very timely reminder that in very worst of modern times, there were so many people who saw evil being done, and resisted it, and also helped the persecuted, as best they could.
AUSTRALIA
2020 in Australia – a successful year for resistance to nuclear pollution.
Nuclear waste dump plan for Kimba, South Australia. Senator Rex Patrick contests Freedom of Information refusal about Australia’s nuclear waste plan. Federal govt accepted Queensland’s “NO” to nuclear dump. Why not South Australia’s?. Senator Rex Patrick calls on South Australian govt to come clean about nuclear waste dumping. Australia’s Industry Department is bluffing in employing staff for non existent nuclear waste project
Ranger Danger: Rio Tinto Faces Its Nuclear Test in Kakadu Uranium – Unfinished Business: Rehabilitating the Ranger Uranium Mine . Green group raise toxic leak concern at Ranger Uranium Mine
A reminder of the danger of ionising radiation, after theft of a nuclear device.
CLIMATE. The Usual Suspects: oil and gas majors star in Australian tax heist. Australia, the climate laggard, could lead the world: over to you, PM– Hypocrisy on steroids: Frydenberg backs witch-hunt on banks that won’t lend to miners.
INTERNATIONAL.
Sleepwalking Toward the Nuclear Precipice.
The insanity of nuclear power in space.
About writing about the nuclear crisis. We’re in a storytelling crisis”: Advice for writing on nuclear issues, from the author of “Fallout”.
Unveiling New Billboards: “Nukes Are Now Illegal!” (Nuclear Weapons) .
CANADA. Canada’s Small Modular Nuclear Reactor ‘Action Plan’ banks on private sector nuclear pipe dreams. NuScale exultant that their scam small nuclear reactors have conned the Canadian government. Many Canadian organisations dispute the government’s plan for small nuclear reactors.
JAPAN.
75% of the Japanese public want Japan to join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Major Japan life insurers shun investing in nuclear weapons-linked firms.
Uninhabitable: Booklet by citizen scientists uncovers true extent of radioactive contamination in Japan’s soil and food.
2 million yen ($19,300) incentive for families to move to near crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
Investigation of mass alterations of data on nuclear safety by Japanese company.
Mutsu Mayor Soichiro Miyashita made it clear that spent nuclear fuel facility will not go ahead. 44 year old Mihama nuclear station, with waste disposal problem may be allowed to restart. Nuclear waste plan spells doom for a Hokkaido fishing community.
UK.
- Law and Disorder: The case of Julian Assange.
- Disabled Russian nuclear-powered feighter to pass through UK and European waters.
- Sizewell C nuclear project. No “green light” for £20bn Sizewell nuclear project, but the UK govt “in talks” with EDF. UK’s Sizewell nuclear project could be a costly fiasco like Hinkley Point C. Controversial funding arrangements for unnecessary Sizewell C nuclear project? Why is UK govt taking the financial and flooding risk of Sizewell nuclear, when renewables are clearly safer and cheaper?. Ipswich Council raises fresh worries about Sizewell nuclear power plan. Sizewell C nuclear plan – a disastrous and expensive mistake. EDF did a small survey of Suffolk community opinion –weighted to favour nuclear industry?
- Doubts about planned Berkshire ”garden town”, because it’s too close to AWE nuclear weapons factory.
USA.
- Investigative journalism – A Legacy of Contamination, How the Kingston coal ash spill unearthed a nuclear nightmare.
- Investigative journalism – USA government resists paying compensation to nuclear workers made ill by ionising radiation.
- For the USA, despite the “Green Nuclear Deal” propaganda, solar power is looking a whole lot better.
- David and Goliath fight to repeal crooked nuclear plant bailouts in Ohio. Following huge bribery scandal, Energy Harbor still manipulating to keep nuclear bailout law.
- Is Energy Harbor cutting nuclear plant workers’ benefits in violation of labor deal?
- USA House Armed Servcies Chairman very sceptical of New Plutonium “Pit” Plans for Nuclear Warheads.
- Russian hackers evaded layers of U.S. security to attack America’s military and intelligence agencies. In a massive cyber-attack, U.S. nuclear agency has been hacked. Hacking of U.S. nuclear weapons agency went undetected for 9 months. 6 Things to Know about the 2020 Cyberattack and Nuclear Power Plants.
- In midst of pandemic crisis, more U.S. tax-payer money to go to nuclear power in space. USA to turn the moon into a nuclear weapons site.
CHINA. China has 350 nuclear warheads, compared to USA and Russia’s many thousands of them.
RUSSIA. Russian environmental defenders under attack.
IRAN. World powers renew commitment to preserve Iran nuclear deal. Iran’s Rouhani: No conditions or negotiations on nuclear deal. Iran builds at underground nuclear plant. Iran Rejects New UN Report over Nuclear Violations. West yet to condemn Iranian nuclear scientist’s assassination.
US Navy nuclear-powered guided-missile submarine and 2 warships sail through Strait of Hormuz, (Persian Gulf-Gulf of Oman).
EUROPE. European Leadership Network appeals to nuclear weapons States to reduce nuclear risks.
UKRAINE. 34 years later, food crops near Chernobyl still contain ionising radiation.
TURKEY. Turkey’s unfinished nuclear plant already redundant.
DENMARK. Big boasts for small nuclear reactors on ships – but are they a recipe for disaster?
JORDAN. Did a research reactor in Jordan leak?