Oh dear – it’s all – will he or won’t he destroy the Iran nuclear deal? Will he have a successful nuclear talk with Kim Jong Un? Will he sell nuclear reactors to Saudi Arabia without safeguards against nuclear weapons? Will I ever do a newsletter without Trumpiness?
AUSTRALIA
Australia, France, in support of Iran nuclear deal.
NUCLEAR
Federal Nuclear waste dump plan Two years of community resistance to nuclear waste dump plan for Australia’s iconic Flinders Ranges. Local indigenous not impressed! ANSTO brought an indigenous nuclear spruiker from New South Wales to Flinders Ranges. Australia’s “Nuclear Archbishop” Dr Adi Paterson, graced Kimba with a visit.
These are some more submissions received by the Senate Inquiry into Selection Process for Siting Nuclear Waste Dump
- Pastoralist Donald Fels finds that Barndioota, South Australia, is a totally unsuitable site for a nuclear waste dump.
- Independent and Peaceful Australia Network South Australia demands that the project receive 90% support from all communities involved. That includes communities along the nuclear waste transport path, those dependent on the underground water in the wider surrounding area, and indeed State and national support.
- Anica Niepraschk calls on the government to dismiss the Hawker and Kimba site nominations for nuclear dumping. Australia’s radioactive trash, and the history of failed attempts to set up a nuclear waste dump.
- Colin Mitchell’s powerful submission to the Senate finds the national radioactive waste selection process to be deceitful.
- Christine Wakelin – very sceptical of National Radioactive Waste Management Facility Taskforce’s methods and plans.
Unanswered questions: what does ANSTO do with the high level nuclear waste canisters at Lucas Heights?
BHP, Heathgate, and Turnbull government keen to sell uranium to India.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists praises “straight talk” from Dr Helen Caldicott.
CLIMATE
The North Shore Environmental Stewards – Liberals aim to unseat Tony Abbott, over his climate denialism. Malcolm Turnbull has become a de-facto climate denier. Doctors for the Environment Australia speak out on Australia’s disgraceful response to climate change. South Australia Health now dealing with infectious disease threats increased due to climate change.
RENEWABLE ENERGY Australia can be the first 100 per cent renewables-powered continent. Renewable energy jobs up by a third – Australian Bureau of Statistics. Images of the Day: Australia top solar postcodes, from the sky . Sapphire wind farm turns on for ACT’s 100% renewables target. Gupta signs up solar farm to power Victoria steelworks.
Australia becoming the global centre for renewables for mines.
Commercial solar hots up in WA, as business wakes up to savings. The subsidy-free wind farms that returned money to ACT consumers in 2017. “No way” anyone will fund new coal plants under NEG, says Schott. CEFC and Pro-Invest reach for the stars with first clean energy investment in the hotels sector . Australia Zoo goes solar, with 648kW of PV . South Australia solar farm connects to the grid. first lithium battery recycling plant established in Gisborne, Victoria.
INTERNATIONAL
Climate in brief The world needs to hear, repeatedly, the simple message on urgency of climate change (and of nuclear threat, too). The UN’s climate change body releases its first annual report. For the entire month of April, atmospheric Co2 levels exceeded 410 parts per million . Global climate change underway – the message from melting Arctic sea ice.
NUCLEAR
Trump talks tough in preparation for summit with Kim Jong Un.
Swiss artist Cornelia Hesse-Honegger shows how insects can tell the true story of the impacts of ionising radiation.
In new technique, scientists calculate radiation dose in bone from victim of Hiroshima bombing.
IRAN –Iran’s moderate Rouhani government in danger, if U.S. President Donald Trump scraps Tehran’s nuclear deal. Iran will not ‘renegotiate or add onto’ nuclear deal. A serious backward step for Iranian reform, if Trump destroys the nuclear deal.
NORTH KOREA. North Korea’s nuclear test site in fact fully operational? Kim Jong Un promises a public display of closing nuclear test site.
UK.
- Hitachi asks Prim Minister May to provide funding for nuclear power project in Wales. Prime Minister Theresa May faces crunch talks over the future of a new nuclear power station. Wylfa nuclear project in Wales – construction started before design completed; taxpayers at risk.
- 40% fall in electricity predicted due to cracks in Hunterston B nuclear power station.
- Frustration and anger: Irish groups concerned at UK govt’s plans for nuclear reactors all too close to densely populated Irish East coast.
- Growing concerns in Scotland over dangers of nuclear weapons “convoys” travelling through towns and cities. Many cops guarding nuclear weapons found to be unfit.
USA.
- NASA ready to radioactively trash another planet – no plan for disposal of wastes from nuclear reactors on Mars. NASA again hyping its plans for nuclear reactors on Mars.
- Continued safety concerns about production of “plutonium pits” for nuclear bombs. America’s over-loaded plutonium waste sites pose a serious danger. The under-rated risks from plutonium.
- Holtec’s “temporary” nuclear waste dump could be a permanent problem for this American community.
- Nuclear industry ‘s struggle to survive – launches huge public relations push.
- Coalition of diverse groups call on Governor to veto New Jersey nuclear subsidy bailout.
- Widening fraud scandal over radioactive contamination clean-up.
- Uranium market looking crook – again!
- Rare eye cancer cases reported (not a mention of proximity to nuclear station).
- Donald Trump basking in pre Nobel Prize glory. Donald Trump reassures National Rifle Association (NRA) that he’s governing on their behalf.
JAPAN. Researchers Identify How Much Radiation Hiroshima Victims Were Exposed to –Foreign Trainees Used in the Cleanup of Fukushima Nuke Plant. Radiation to atmosphere from Fukushima now estimated to be up to 8 times more than from Chernobyl nuclear accident. Fukushima residents fight state plan to build roads with radiation-tainted soil.
CHINA. China ‘supports North Korean shift from nuclear to economy’.
TURKEY. Scientists call on the the International Atomic Energy Agency, NATO to stall Turkey’s dangerous nuclear power developments. Greek and Turkish Cypriots unite to oppose nuclear power plant in Akkuyu, Turkey.
FRANCE. France’s “revolving door” between nuclear power managers and politicians: big conflict of interest!
MIDDLE EAST. Climate Change Ignores all Borders as Rain Bombs Fall on Kauai and the Middle East Alike.
RUSSIA. Russia’s nuclear reactor ship raises fears of a maritime ‘Chernobyl.
SAUDI ARABIA. Saudi Arabia’s nuclear obsession – a cover for nuclear weapons development?
IRAQ, KUWAIT. Southern Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia permanently polluted with Depleted Uranium.
ISRAEL. Israel, Too, Lied About Its Nuclear Capabilities.
EUROPE. 32 years after Chernobyl, wild boars remain too radioactive to eat.
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