Nuclear news- week to 4 April
Nuclear Winter Webinar 7 April
https://beyondnuclear.org/nuclear-winter-webinar/ The Samuel Lawrence Foundation is hosting its “First Friday” Zoom Event at 11:30 AM PST (2:30 PM EST), featuring Brian Toon, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder on:
“Nuclear Winter: The Environmental Consequences of a Nuclear Exchange.” The event is moderated by Professor Paul Dorfman, Chair of Nuclear Consulting Group, University of Sussex, UK. Professor Toon is a world renowned researcher on the environmental and climate consequences of nuclear war. Even a limited conflict between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan, an exchange of 100 nuclear weapons, would have global climate changing consequences. Click here to register for the April 7th webinar.
Christina notes. “Clean” “Renewable” nuclear power – the PERSISTENT LIES. Corruption in the nuclear industry.
It’s a pivotal time – this AUKUS-nuclear submarine thing. And not just for Australia – as 3 anglophone nations team up in spreading nuclear weapons-grade technology for the first time – to a non-nuclear nation. All done – not with the consent of parliaments and people – just done with a stroke by the big boys. And all setting up for the next proxy war, Australia in the lead role? – against China.
CLIMATE. Climate change amplifies existing threats to national security.
CIVIL LIBERTIES. UN sounds alarm over Ukraine church crackdown.
EMPLOYMENT. Nuclear skills shortage in Britain .
ENERGY. Renewable generation surpassed coal and nuclear in the U.S. electric power sector in 2022,
ENVIRONMENT. EPA finds radioactive contamination in Missouri landfill Sizewell C permits approved despite concerns over potential mass fish deaths. Campaigners claim permit change at Hinkley Point would kill billions of fish. South Korea to keep Fukushima seafood ban despite thaw with Japan.
HEALTH. Exposure to ionizing radiation can increase risk of heart disease. Cancer as Weapon: Sowing Battlefields With Depleted Uranium.
INDIGENOUS ISSUES. An obnoxious clause in Canada’s draft Act for Implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)
MEDIA. Nuclear winter webinar – 7 April. Covering (Up) Antiwar Protest in US Media.
NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY. Small Modular Nuclear Reactors may not be the holy grail for energy security, net zero. Small nuclear reactors – the global hype and hoax continues, especially in Europe. North Korea May Be Close to Completing New Nuclear Reactor: 38 North. No, Nuclear Energy Won’t Save Us.
OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR. Over 100 Canadian organisations oppose funding for small modular nuclear reactors in federal budget. Time to revive Scotland’s campaign – Resist the Atomic Menace. Opponents pack Pilgrim Nuclear meeting as potential discharge of radioactive water looms.
POLITICS.
USA CONGRESSIONAL EFFORT TO END ASSANGE PROSECUTION IS UNDERWAY.
POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.
SAFETY.
SECRETS and LIES. CIA’s surveillance methods on Assange revealed.
SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. US-NATO proxy war in Ukraine utilises space technology. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5az_t0YxgmQ&t=1s
SPINBUSTER.
WASTES. Moltex vows to help Canada recycle its nuclear waste. Critics say the byproducts would be even worse. TEPCO visually confirms melted nuclear fuel at Fukushima plant. Decommissioning reactors: Germany will complete nuclear phase-out as planned but technology’s risks remain – env min. Divers enter Sellafield’s nuclear pool for first time in 65 years. Pilgrim Nuclear owner agrees to wastewater study, but says it won’t pay for it.
WAR and CONFLICT. THE LAST THING THE UKRAINIAN PEOPLE NEED IS DEPLETED URANIUM.
WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES.
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