September 2023

Part 1 of 2 Parts
     The Coalition and News Corp has been engaging in a vague, ideological push for nuclear power in Australia. Critics believe that this push is the latest step in a decades-long campaign of delay and denial on the climate crisis.

     Ernst Kuipers is the Minister of Health, Welfare and Sports for the Netherlands. He has confirmed that full funding has been allocated for the one billion eight hundred thousand dollars of estimated public investment required for the Pallas research reactor in Petten, the Netherlands.

     Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, and his inner circle have frequently boasted about the size of Russia’s huge nuclear weapons arsenal since the beginning of the Ukrainian war. World War III fears have exploded once more after Putin ordered thousands of troops from Russia’s nuclear mission force to engage in “combat readiness” exercises.

     Construction workers stole and sold potentially radioactive scrap metal from the area around the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant according to the Japanese environmental ministry. The material was taken from a museum being demolished in a special zone about two and a half miles from the nuclear plant in northeast Japan that was destroyed by a tsunami in 2011.

Israel will act against Iranian nuclear pursuit, uranium enrichment jpost.com

     An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of nuclear experts has just completed a follow-up review of long-term operational safety at the Ascó nuclear power plant in Spain. The team reviewed the plant’s owners and operators’ responses to recommendations and suggestions made during a Safety Aspects of Long-Term Operation (SALTO) mission in 2021.

     Japan recently began releasing radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear disaster into the Pacific Ocean. This prompted China to announce a ban on all Japanese seafood products due to concerns about radioactive contamination. They joined Hong Kong, Macau, and South Korea who also have banned seafood from the area around Fukushima. Many other countries have stepped up their inspection of fish and other food items from Japan.

     China has just launched its biggest nuclear fusion research facility as it continues to pursue the construction of an “artificial sun”. A recent report included images of the interior of the completed main building of the facility in east Chain’s Anhui province. The facility is formally known as the Comprehensive Research Facility for Fusion Technology (CRAFT).

Part 2 of 2 Parts (Please read Part 1 first)
     James Smith is professor of environmental and geological sciences at Portsmouth University. He said that “in theory, you could drink this water”, because the contaminated water is already treated when it is stored and then diluted.