I am wondering if those who read this newsletter, (and many other people, too) are getting "climate change fatigue". "Nuclear fatigue" too, perhaps. Still, on the nuclear scene, nothing dramatic seems to be happening this week. Nevertheless, a bit like climate change, nuclear pollution is something that continues to creep up on the unaware world. Investigative journalism still lives: a new report tells of vast areas of America's land poisoned by mismanagement of military wastes. Not a good time to give up on reading about climate change, with the current debate on Is the Climate Emergency Just a Big Problem, or is it a Catastrophe?
AUSTRALIA
Militarisation
of Australia's police?
CLIMATE and ENERGY
Climate
denialism rules the Federal Liberal Party and is bringing about a split
within it. The disgraceful state of Australia's politics
and media on clean energy.
Australian States and
Federal government approve 49 Finkel recommendations, but split
on Clean Energy Target.
Clean Energy Finance
Corporation sees rapid
growth in renewables.
NUCLEAR
Did
Australia cave in to France over Pacific nuclear bomb testing?
Quiet
shipment of uranium from Australia to India - non signatory to
Non-Proliferation Treaty.
South Australia
Clear
opposition to nuclear development in South Australia: no further tax-payer
money should be wasted on it. Pro
nuclear activities of MP Rowan Ramsey questioned.
Northern Territory
As ERA's Ranger
Uranium mine lease to expire, town
of Jabiru's future is not clear.
Queensland
Queensland Liberal
National Party members refuse
to pull out of Paris Climate Accord.
RENEWABLE ENERGY
I can no longer keep
up with the many developments in solar, wind, efficiency, storage of energy
etc. Best information source is Giles' Parkinson's REneweconomy.
INTERNATIONAL
CLIMATE
We Still Have Time to
Restore Our Climate. But
the Climate Time Bomb Is Ticking.
Prof James Hansen warns on sea level rise: Earth
could become ‘practically ungovernable’. Methane from thawing permafrost could
be increasing the rate of global warming. $530 trillion costs
for the future, if no effective action on climate change. Global Sea Ice Coverage
Has Fallen Off a Cliff -- Impacts
Likely to Be Wide-Ranging.
NUCLEAR
Will
Small Nuclear Reactors be the great white hope for the ailing nuclear industry?
Probably not.
EUROPE
Drought ravages South
Europe crops.
CANADA
Huge wildfires again
in Canada - ">1000s
forced to evacuate.
JAPAN
Japan map showing potential
nuclear waste disposal sites to be released.
Japan's government planning protection in ">fear
of radioactive terrorism at 2020 Olympics.
Fukushima
Radiation and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Japan's local authorities want
security measures: ">nuclear
reactors a target for military or terrorists.
Fukushima
5.8
M Quake Near Ongoing Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Site;
Torrential Rains; Threats Of Increased Dumping of Radioactive Water to the Pacific.
Underwater Robot
Begins Probing Fukushima Daiichi's
No. 3 reactor. Will Tepco Dump 770,000 tons of Tritiated Water Into
the Pacific Ocean?
FRANCE
Hot weather causes France
to cut nuclear power output: (climate change is not good for nuclear
reactors)
Europe's
struggle to find a solution to nuclear waste disposal.
UK
- Geoffrey Robertson puts the legal
and moral case for phasing out Britain's Trident nuclear deterrent. Veteran
British anti
nuclear campaigners gaoled.
- UK's nuclear clean-up to
cost £119 billion and take 120 years.
- UK threatens
to return radioactive waste to EU without nuclear deal. UK Parliament
select committee to inquire into government's plans
to leave Euratom.
- Inconvenient
financial facts about Britain's Hinkley Point C nuclear station
- cost to consumers rising to £50 billion? If Britain's Hinkley nuclear project
is cancelled, Britain would have to pay around
£22bn to France's EDF.
USA
- Donald Trump ">will
not be able to make the Iran nuclear deal fail - yet. America's intended
new sanctions on Iran may
violate the nuclear agreement.
- Marshallese people evacuated from their islands now
face harsh situation in Oklahoma.
- Chicago at last to
clean up its radioactive thorium pollution.
- USA government funding Westinghouse
and universities to advance nuclear innovation.
- Donald Trump's policies mean serious
damage to climate science research.
- Climate
change is a ‘Direct Threat’ to Security says USA's Republican dominated
Congress.
- NASA to develop nuclear
power on Mars.
IRAN
The Iran nuclear
deal is working.
GERMANY
Nuclear and Renewable
power really
don't work well together.
SOUTH AFRICA
On Mandela Day, South
Africa's anti nuclear movement pledges
to stop the government’s nuclear plans.
INDIA
Villagers
protest, and stop drilling work for proposed nuclear power plant in Chutka,
India.
Christina Macpherson
Antinuclear Australia
www.antinuclear.net
www.nuclear-news.net
https://nuclearinformation.wordpress.com/
@ChristinaMac1