Climate/nuclear news to 27 November

Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are now at a record high level. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu0DNjp2OsY Mountain water serving half the world is disappearing.

Against the background of all the disturbing climate news, it's a bit of a shock to learn the lengths of duplicity to which politicians will go, to prevent climate action.

And, on the nuclear scene, duplicity of a different kind. I hate to use that tawdry phrase "fake news", but that's what it was, a false report of a nuclear explosion in the South China Sea.

Some bits of good news - In India, an intrepid old farmer grew a lush oasis in a cold desert.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-foEwcAu_zw. In drought-stricken Australia, some farmers are learning to improve the soil, and conserve water, with regenerative farming.  Patients'exposure to medical radiation is going down.

AUSTRALIA

Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says Assange faces 'unacceptable' and 'disproportionate' punishment. A previous Prime Minister intervened to help political prisoner: Scott Morrison could do this for Julian Assange.  Appeal from former political prisoner to Australia's Prime Minister to help Julian Assange.

Australian government rushing laws to crack down on protestors. Journalists beware! Australia now a surveillance state.

CLIMATE. Bushfires flare and temperature records fall amid catastrophic conditions in South Australia. Climate change will make fire storms more likely in southeastern Australia.  Survey showed environment and climate to be Australian children’s top concerns.

How does the climate denialist Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) get away with being a "charity"?  Religiosity of Scott Morrison - about global heating and bushfires. Cuddling coal and people: does Scott Morrison think that Australians are that stupid about climate change?

University of New South Wales first engineering school to sign declaration to reduce harmful carbon emissions.

NUCLEAR.

• Australia as the salvation of the nuclear industry?
• Nuclear Waste Crash COVERUP - Contaminated  Police Speak Out. ANSTO's reply on nuclear crash report - that reply debunked.
• Kimba and Flinders Ranges communities do not know what nuclear wastes they are getting, and for how many decades.  Determined Aboriginal opposition to plan for Federal Nuclear Waste dump in rural South Australia. Aboriginal group votes against nuclear dump, but government department warns that they cannot veto it.  All Australians are able to  vote - no nuclear waste dump in the Flinders Ranges.

"The case made by the uranium bulls is in reality full of holes"

RENEWABLE ENERGY.

States go it alone on energy after Coalition buries talk of emissions. How are Australian States progressing on renewable energy? South Australia way ahead.  South Australia Liberals celebrate nation-leading switch to wind, solar and storage.

Australian billionaire Cannon-Brookes says $20bn solar project will be “lighthouse” to world.  Is Gina Rinehart finally ready to switch to green energy and cut emissions? NSW tenders $3.5 billion supply contract in firm test for wind and solar. Right-wing front group Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) wants to hit Electric Vehicles s with road tax “before they appear in every driveway”.  Electric car ultra rapid chargers arrive in heart of brown coal country.

INTERNATIONAL

Journalism's future in crisis - the case of Julian Assange.  Political manipulations- the Swedish allegations against Julian Assange.

Global heating is shrinking and accelerating the jet stream.   Pursuing nuclear power slows down real action on climate change by faster, cheaper, energy sources. Analysis: Global coal power set for record fall in 2019.

On nuclear radiation - past and future - extract from article on Chernobyl.

MARSHALL ISLANDS. As the Runit nuclear waste dome crumbles, Marshall Islanders want honesty and justice.

IRAQ. New report on Iraqi babies, deformed due to thorium and uranium from U.S. military actions and bases.

UK. 

• For UK elections, top issue is climate change.   Scotland's Nicola Sturgeon's outspoken opposition to use of nuclear weapons. Scottish National Party will press Jeremy Corbyn to scrap UK’s nuclear deterrent. UK's Liberal Democrat leader criticised for her willingness to use nuclear weapons.
• A Labour government in UK would revive Wylfa nuclear power project. UK Labour touts 'green industrial revolution', BUT INCLUDES NUCLEAR POWER AS "GREEN"!
• UK's embarrassing, expensive, intractable trouble with dead nuclear submarines.
• Why is the UK government now hiding its nuclear history files?
• EDF's misleading and deficient safety report on Hunterston nuclear station.

CHINA. Further debunking of the conspiracy nonsense about a nuclear explosion in the South China Sea.  China's $2.5bn renewables investment in Inner Mongolia.

UKRAINE. Studies on Chernobyl nuclear disaster show that it's relevant today, and for the future.

JAPAN.

•   Pope Francis urges fresh efforts for Fukushima victims. Pope Francis calls for a 'world without nuclear weapons' during Nagasaki visit.
• Fukushima Workers Battle Leukemia – and Bureaucracy.
• Hotspots in East Tokyo's Mizumoto Park.  Environmentalists say.
• Japan nuclear plant safety costs increase 5-fold over 6 years to 5.4 trillion yen. Undersea survey for new nuke plant deferred due to protests in western Japan.
• Fukushima water too radioactive to release. Fukushima operator accused of cover-up over 'contaminated' water set to be poured into the Pacific.
• Inspectors find 41 cracks in the grounds of Fukushima nuclear plant: local media.  Nuclear regulator says cost-cutting culture creating mistakes, delays at Fukushima plant.  To Make the Olympics Look Good Japanese Government Wants Evacuees To Return To Fukushima.  Fukushima to Become Solar, Wind Hub Using Farmland Tainted by Radiation.
• Doctors’ prescription for the Tokyo Olympics.  The radioactive Olympics.  Japan grapples with serving Fukushima food at Olympics.
• Dozens of bags of radioactive waste still missing in Fukushima three weeks after intense typhoon.  Radioactive soil spilled over into roads, rivers, during Typhoon Hagibis, report says. Experts warn against fires from disaster waste after Typhoon Hagibis.

SOUTH KOREA. South Korea nuclear regulator wants information on radioactive Fukushima water release.

USA.

• The U.S. Submarine That Could Bring Nuclear Doomsday With It,   One sub to end a country.  Nuclear deterrence is weakened by the absence of diplomacy, and the demise of arms control.    As negotiation deadline nears, tension between Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump.  US presidential candidate Deval Patrick's ignorance about nuclear weapons.
• USA Democrats question Dan Brouillette, (Next DOE Secretary) on nuclear and coal.
• For the 8th time this year, a Hanford worker exposed to nuclear radiation. -
• Ohio: the nuclear industry's violent assault on democracy.
• Safety problems with Holtec's dry canisters for nuclear wastes. A Huge Tax Break Went to a Politically Connected Holtec International (Nuclear) in New Jersey Despite Red Flags.  Georgia's Nuclear Plant Vogtle behind schedule, with costs escalating. Holtec’s proposed nuclear storage facility of little benefit to New Mexico.   New Mexico not keen to take South Carolina's plutonium wastes.
• John Hopkins University prominent in helping the nuclear weapons industry.   A call for John Hopkins University to stop helping nuclear weapons industry.

FRANCE.  France's nuclear company EDF - report - a litany of failures  France's Flamanville nuclear financial catastrophe gets worse. France's government is giving mixed messages on future of nuclear energy. France's company EDF selling out of USA nuclear plants, Exelon to buy.

INDIA. India's government ignores opposition as it plans to build spent nuclear fuel storage facility.

SOUTH AFRICA. South Africa's nuclear waste storage almost completely full; a dangerous situation.

RUSSIA.  Putin told bereaved families that nuclear accident scientists were working on an "unparalled"weapon.

TAIWAN. Taiwan govt to give $2.55 billion to Orchid Island in nuclear waste compensation.

GERMANY. In Germany , renewables replace nuclear and lower emissions simultaneously.

CANADA. Toxic flushing of nuclear poisons into Lake Winnipeg.

IRELAND. Irish wind power for France, as France's EDF nuclear electricity is in a financial mess.

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Christina Macpherson
Antinuclear Australia
www.antinuclear.net
www.nuclear-news.nethttps://nuclearinformation.wordpress.com/ @ChristinaMac1