Nuclear news – week to 4 March 2024

Christina Macpherson

March 4

Some bits of good news - Passion for compassion: the group working to make the Commons kinder. Major research suggests humans can break free from tribalism **************************************
TOP STORIES. US Refuses to Assure UK Judges That Assange Won't Be Executed If He's Extradited. Atlantic Council report lays out options and possible first use of nuclear weapons against China over Taiwan.
Texas wildfires continue to pose threat to Pantex nuclear weapons plant, and climate change will bring further threats to nuclear facilities. USA is littered with nuclear sites that could face danger from natural disasters.

Nuclear space-based ASAT weapons – A brief international legal perspective.Get These Rich People Off the Moon.
AI's craving for data is matched only by a runaway thirst for water and energy.

Climate. New Research from Antarctica Affirms the Threat of the 'Doomsday Glacier,' but Funding to Keep Studying It Is Running Out.

Noel's notes. My dilemma in writing about nuclear issues. Nuclear power stopping climate change? IT'S THE OTHER WAY AROUND!

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AUSTRALIA. Andrew Forrest attacks Coalition's nuclear "bulldust" and betraying the bush. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09OeHD-h9Ak Andrew Forrest and Peter Dutton are on a collision course over Nuclear Power. This is what happens when an uncosted Coalition thought-bubble on nuclear power is presented as a concrete proposal. Dutton wants a 'mature debate' about nuclear power. By the time we've had one, new plants will be too late to replace coal. Nuclear boondoggle | The West Report https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdALb8Vr3t8

No nuclear option for $275m green-manufacturing and innovation grants. Silencing the Voice: the fossil-fuelled Atlas Network's Campaign against Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australia.

NUCLEAR ISSUES

CLIMATE. Texas: Disaster declaration issued and nuclear weapons plant shut down as wildfires spread. Texas nuclear weapons facility pauses as fires spread. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba_oPoqeF2Y

Buried Nuclear Waste From the Cold War Could Resurface as Ice Sheets Melt. USA is littered with nuclear sites that could face danger from natural disasters. Could climate change release 35 swimming pools' worth of nuclear waste? Or worse... unleash a world-ending pandemic? These are the terrifying unexpected consequences of melting ice.

ECONOMICS. Tax-payer to take bigger financial risks under new payment plan for nuclear command satellites. The Cost of Nuclear War in Space.
Inside Europe's only nuclear unicorn — and its €1bn fundraising hopes.

ENERGY. Blackout risks due to Hinkley nuclear delays - a reminder of the value of energy efficienc

ENVIRONMENT. Oceans. Release of fourth batch of Fukushima treated radioactive water begins. China is 'unlikely' to lift import ban on Japanese seafood as dumping continues.
Conservationists say Hinkley C nuclear water intakes could wipe out Atlantic salmon stocks

LEGAL. Fish v. electricity: Could Salem nuclear plant be shut down?More indictments for Ohio nuclear crimes.

MEDIA. When The Imperial Media Report On An Israeli Massacre.Einstein's Postwar Campaign To Save The World From Nuclear Destruction.Chilling Pictures of Hiroshima Weeks After Atomic Bomb Dropped Emerge.

OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . IT'S TIME TO CANCEL SIZEWELL C

POLITICS. Has the nuclear lobby hijacked Welsh democracy?
"Big nuclear reactor" lobby fights back against "Small nuclear reactor" lobby.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. Biden administration restores Trump-rescinded policy on illegitimacy of Israeli settlements.
France accused of 'unacceptable' behaviour after demanding UK taxpayer cash for Hinkley nuclear. Chris Huhne Letter: UK Taxpayers shouldn't be footing bill for EDF failings.
Macron stands by remarks on NATO troops in Ukraine.

SAFETY. New nuclear reactors shielded from liability if federal law passes Congress: Price-Anderson Act renewal hidden from public.
Mistakes, Misfiring and Trident: Britain's Flawed Nuclear Deterrence

SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. Satellites burning up in our atmosphere may not be as harmless as first thought.

TECHNOLOGY.So They're Experimenting With Military Robots In Gaza Now.SMRs are useless says the UK's leading SMR analyst! – 100 per cent renewable energy is much more feasible!UK spurns European invitation to join ITER nuclear fusion project.Microsoft's Kate Crawford: 'AI is neither artificial nor intelligent'.Finland's Olkiluoto nuclear power station to be disconnected for 37 days.

WASTES."Tritium Removal" A Report on the Proposed MCECE nuclear Facility at Chalk River also at https://nuclear-news.net/2024/03/03/2-b1-tritium-removal-a-report-on-the-proposed-mcece-facility-at-chalk-river/Burying nuclear waste the best of a bad bunch of options.Locals oppose nuclear waste plant - parish council. Holderness: Government guarantees plans for nuclear waste dump will be dropped for good.New plans to dismantle Rosyth dead nuclear submarines left for decades.Nuclear Restoration Services has been served with an "improvement notice" after the ONR found failures in its storage methods