No – there’s not really much happening in the nuclear sphere. What is happening is the increasing pro nuke propaganda. It is so noticeable in my country, Australia. Not that it’s widespread (yet), but the pro-nuke spiel from the Murdochracy is so patently, silly, and ill-informed that it deserves mention for its absurdity. I hope to write more about this next time.
CLIMATE Serious as the pandemic is, – I’m thinking that in the total picture, it does not compare with the weather extremes, the suffering, the forced refugees, that the world faces from global heating.
When it happens in America, the media does sit up and take notice. It’s happening in California, with raging temperatures and raging wildfires. I know that this is terrible, and not funny, but still, I wonder if some climate change denialists might be having second thoughts , as they’re finding it hard to get oysters and other luxury shellfish – seeing that these coastal marine organisms are being cooked now, before they can be harvested.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTZD5K6JBGk
CORONAVIRUS. World Health Organisation sounds alarm as global deaths top 4 million, delta variant spreads to 100 countries.
AUSTRALIA.
South Australian law demands an Inquiry into the Federal government’s nuclear waste storage plan. Barngarla Determination Aboriginal Corporation (BDAC) will take legal action against nuclear dump plan if Resources Minister Keith Pitt names Napandee as the site.
Australian Members of Parliament from right and left parties call on US President Biden to drop charges against Julian Assange,
INTERNATIONAL
Reaching net zero without nuclear. Nuclear Energy Will Not Be the Solution to Climate Change – not enough time, even if it were effective.
If They Chose, Biden and Putin Could Make the World Radically Safer, Nuclear arms control hasn’t worked. We need a new approach.
Key witness in Julian Assange case admits to lies in indictment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlLbAVSHeA8 U.S. government offers meaningless assurances on Julian Assange’s well-being, as it gets right to appeal on UK court ruling against his extradition. U.S. proposals about extradition of Julian Assange are designed to keep him in prison for life.
Rapid growth of global renewable energy: it’s the major energy source in Europe.
Mobile phones/cellphones – the health danger from electromagnetic radiation.
JAPAN. The 44 year process for demolishing TEPCO’s Fukushima No. 2 nuclear station, – with nowhere to put the radioactive trash. Japan’s nuclear regulator to order review of earthquake risks of Genkai nuclear plant. The danger of Japan’s increasing stockpile of plutonium. Fukushima’s ”nuclear recovery Olympics’‘ has gone even more wrong, as spectators banned.
EUROPE. Both UK and European Commission want nuclear energy excluded from clean energy investments -”otherwise clean energy finances would not be credible”.
GERMANY, As Germany’s election approaches, political parties differ on the future of U.S. nuclear weapons based there,.
UK.
- As wind power becomes half the price of nuclear, nuclear power may not be an election winner. British households will pay for nuclear construction long before it supplies any electricity, under the govt’s new plan. Investors won’t back the nuclear ”white elephant’‘, neither should the UK taxpayers. UK residents face higher electricity bills, paying in advance, for the construction of new nuclear reactors.
- Green party makes gains in East Suffolk Council by-election – area that includes planned Sizewell nuclear station.
- Nuclear fusion – a very unlikely development for Bradwell.
- The UK and Ireland Nuclear Free Local Authorities (NFLA) deplore the new secrecy on defence nuclear safety reports.
IRAN.Iran trying to enrich uranium metal that could help develop nuclear weapon, UN watchdog says.
FRANCE. “EDF’s Chinese dream seems well and truly over“- a minor nuclear incident becomes a major industrial disaster for the French nuclear firm. France’s government helps settle the debts of bankrupt nuclear company AREVA (which is now resuscitated as ORANO) France refuses to hand over maps of nuclear tests in Algeria.
TAIWAN. Taiwan Shuts Another Reactor as Part of Nuclear-Free Goal,.
USA.
- William Perry and Jerry Brown address the unwisdom of spending $2 trillion on new nuclear weapons. U.S. Space Force opens new centre to facilitate war in space. Nuclear weapons testing has never really stopped. We just call underground testing ”subcritical”.
- The nuclear rort in Georgia. Consumers may end up paying for billions of dollars in cost overruns on the Plant Vogtle nuclear expansion. In the USA State of Ohio, pro nuclear legislation is helped along by misinformation on renewable energy.
- U.S. nuclear lobby wants to sell advanced nuclear technology to China, on the spurious claims of ”safety” and ”advancing climate action”.
- Nuclear injustice in New Mexico must end.
- EPA Withdraws Disastrous Trump-Era Radioactive Roads Approval.
RUSSIA. Dialogue between Russia and USA must include subject of offensive weapons in outer space – says Russian Foreign Minister.
NORTH KOREA. North Korea Needs the Bomb to Protect Itself From America.
Nuclear Australia 
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