Nuclear news – week to 12 June

Some bits of good news –     The planet’s economist: has Kate Raworth found a model for sustainable living?A watchdog acted on fossil fuel ‘greenwashing’

Climate. Is peaceful protest enough to make a difference to the climate crisis. or do we need a “tornado of change”?

AI is the new big worry – Why make a world that nobody wants?

Nuclear.  The drums of war are beating ever more severely.  The break in Ukraine’s Nova Kakhovka dam increases the danger to Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station – all rather doom and gloom this  wek.

Christina notes. What is Zelensky’s “peace formula”, and why on Earth are we backing it?

TOP STORIES

Is nuclear fusion energy salvation?

Ralph Nader: Reverse the Accelerating Warfare State Before It’s Too Late!

The War in Ukraine Was Provoked—and Why That Matters to Achieve Peace.

Kiev’s Long Term Plans To Blow Up The Kakhovka Dam. Ukrainian dam is destroyed; nuclear plant lives in a ‘grace period’.

 Detailed evidence exposes Japan’s lies, loopholes in nuclear-contaminated wastewater dumping plan.2

Rosatom says nuclear cleanup in Arctic done – Far from the case, says Bellona.

AUSTRALIA. AUKUS coming to dinner. Mining giant BHP pushes Albanese Government to remove hurdles to nuclear energy. War propaganda machine silencing voices of truth.

CLIMATE. Europe’s Nuclear Power Puzzle.

CULTURE and ARTS. A-bombed artist to distribute ‘war brooms’ in Hiroshima as he calls for nuclear abolition.

ECONOMICS. 

• Cost of building Hinkley nuclear station soars from £18bn to  £32.7bn. Increasing costs and delays in building Hinkley nuclear station. 
• France fully nationalises debt-laden nuclear power group EDF, after its record loss last year.  
• Marketing. China and Russia building most nuclear power plants, – the main goal is to market them to developing countries. 
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EDUCATION. Lockheed Martin CEO James Taiclet super ecstatic over USA govt’s budget deal.

EMPLOYMENT. The ABCs of a nuclear education.

ENERGY. Wind and solar overtake fossil fuel generation in the European Union. European Union to try again for renewable energy deal after nuclear row.

ENVIRONMENT. Content of radioactive element in fish at Fukushima‘s Nuclear Power Plant  180 times of safe limit.   World Ocean Day appeal to international bodies over Fukushima dump plan. Hong Kong to ban seafood from high-risk regions near Fukushima if Japan dumps nuclear-contaminated water into ocean. Despite scientific evidence and public opposition, Japan to test ocean nuclear wastewater discharge on June 12

ETHICS and RELIGION. U.S. leaders must take responsibility for past nuclear atrocities..

HEALTH. Energy Northwest nuclear plant failed to properly measure workers’ radioactive exposure, report says.

LEGAL. Judge orders the Crown Prosecution Service to come clean about the destruction of key documents on Julian Assange. UK: Julian Assange Dangerously Close to Extradition Following High Court Rejection of Appeal. ASSANGE JUDGE IS 40-YEAR ‘GOOD FRIEND’ OF MINISTER WHO ORCHESTRATED HIS ARREST.

MEDIA. Journalists Are Asking Ukrainian Soldiers To Hide Their Nazi Patches, New York Times Admits.

NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY. Robotic “dogs” to help clean up Dounreay nuclear site. Small nuclear reactors for the moon. Nuclear-Powered Cargo Ships Are Trying to Stage a Comeback. A.I. or Nuclear Weapons: Can You Tell These Quotes Apart?

OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR. Mayors call for action against nuclear war.

PERSONAL STORIES. My nuclear family. A reader’s scathing rebuke on this site’s use of Tucker Carlson article [on nuclear-news.net]

POLITICS. 

• Citizens Advisory Panel to host meetings on recycling spent nuclear fuel, Vermont. 
• Britain’s taxpayers, slugged with uneconomic Hinkley nuclear plant ‘s costs, now to be slugged again with Sizewell. 
• In Taiwan, DPP, Hou You-yi clash over nuclear power. US presidential candidate 
• Nikki Haley says that arming UKraine is “preventing war”. 
• Letter. Nuclear plan raises suspicions. 
• Anxiety and disagreement in South Korea about Fukushima radioactive wastewater.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. 

• Major Progress Made in Nuclear Talks Between U.S. and Iran in Preparation for a New Agreement. UN nuclear chief, facing Israeli criticism on Iran, says his agency ‘very fair but firm’. 
• Amid Blinken visit, top Saudi diplomat says kingdom seeks U.S. nuclear aid. Israel undecided on Saudi Arabia’s demand for civil nuclear technology Israeli Minister says US should deny Saudi Arabia nuclear reactor. 
• OpenAI’s Sam Altman calls for an international agency like the UN’s nuclear watchdog to oversee AI. 
• Washington banned Kiev from signing truce with Moscow – Russian security chief. 
• German TV Shows Nazi Symbols on Helmets of Ukraine Soldiers. 
• France says nuclear power is ‘non-negotiable’. France’s EDF and the global nuclear lobby sulking because Europe won’t accept their lie that nuclear power is “renewable”. 
• Are We Back to Nuclear Brinkmanship for Good?
• Universalization of Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty Is Essential – now more than ever.

RADIATION. As Japan prepares to release Fukushima nuclear waste water – a reminder that countries can ban goods with radiation contamination risks.

SAFETY. 

• Kakhovka dam breach raises risk for Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant – receding waters narrow options for cooling. Ukrainian dam collapse ‘no immediate risk’ to Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. Water levels at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant ‘critical’ after dam collapses in Ukraine. The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant used water from the destroyed Nova Kakhovka dam. What happens now? Last reactor at Ukraine’s biggest nuclear power plant shut down for safety 
• Ukraine: Nuclear threat shows danger of small modular reactors . 
• Japan passes law to allow nuclear power stations to operate beyond 60 years. 
• Canadian Federal Court Upholds Alcohol and Drug Testing at Nuclear Facilities. 
• Non Government Organisations Tell Biden that US Nuclear Plants Aren’t Safe from Attack. 
• Minor’ leak at nuclear submarine dock.

SECRETS and LIES. Washington Post reported Ukraine conducted a test strike with HIMARS on the Kahovka dam last year.  Trump-era officials under fire as nuclear fund for Bikini islanders is squandered. Leaks reveal FBI helps Ukraine censor Twitter users and obtain their info. Snowden Warns Today’s Surveillance Technology Makes 2013 Look Like ‘Child’s Play’ . Trump held secret nuclear documents. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DErGSfKuXcg

SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS.Stealth actions by SpaceX, as 36 space launches approved by California Coastal Commission without a vote, public hearing, or public notice.[ on nuclear-news.net]

SPINBUSTER. Tucker Carlson steamrolls Ukraine propaganda in new show. Patrick Lawrence: Neo-Nazis in Ukraine? No, Yes, No–Yes.

WASTES. Amid opposition, Japan takes 1st step to release nuclear waste water into ocean. Problems ahead for the nuclear industry in the closing and disposal of dead nuclear reactors. Chalk River: Radioactive Wastes and the Honour of the Crown. (from the archives – Canada’s controversial nuclear waste disposal design for Chalk River) Timeline: The history of radioactive contamination in St. Louis County. Consent-based or bribery?

WAR and CONFLICT. The Ukrainian “counter-offensive”: A new stage in the US-NATO war against Russia. Suicide Day Four, all so that NATO can Expand. Ukraine rebuffs Vatican peace attempt. BLINKEN’S BATTLE HYMN. Four nuclear myths. Israel simulates Iran war after Tehran cleared of nuclear allegations.

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. Russia says U.S.-built F-16s could ‘accommodate’ nuclear weapons if sent to Ukraine. Russia warns that supplying nuclear weapons to Ukraine would lead to ‘global, irrevocable collapse’. Starve the Poor; Feed the Pentagon. US “Doomsday” Plane, Capable Of Surviving Nuclear War, Just Got A Big Revamp.