According to activist group Don’t Nuke the Climate, tripling nuclear capacity by 2050 would require countries to connect between 24 and 28 new reactors to the grid each year for the next 26 years, a completely unrealistic goal. These are large reactors; even more would be needed if the reactors are smaller. The post IAEA’s First Nuclear Energy Summit in Brussels: More than 600 organisations protest globally, call it “fairy tale” appeared first on DiaNuke.org ..read more

Climate change could unearth buried US nuclear waste Anita Hofschneider | Mother Jones   This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Ariana Tibon was in college at the University of Hawaiʻi in 2017 when she saw the photo online: a black-and-white picture of a manRead More The post Climate Change will Unearth Buried Nuclear Waste: US Federal Accountability Office appeared first on DiaNuke.org ..read more

COP28’s Unrealistic Tripling of Nuclear Power CounterPunch | Robert Hunziker UN climate conferences since 1992 have failed to follow through with results, as CO2 emissions continue higher and higher with every passing year. In fact, post climate conference impact of adopted proposals has become something 0f an inside joke. TheRead More The post COP28 and the anachronistic push for Nuclear Power appeared first on DiaNuke.org ..read more

Putin revokes Russia’s ratification of nuclear test ban treaty Al Jazeera | 02 November 2023 Moscow says the abandonment of the 1996 treaty is designed to bring Russia into line with the US. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has revoked his country’s ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT),Read More The post Russia revokes ratification of CTBT appeared first on DiaNuke.org ..read more

Will Sullivan | Smithsonian Magazine Fallout from nuclear tests conducted in the mid-20th century may contribute to the high levels of radiation seen in the animals today, a new study finds. From weapons tests to destructive accidents at power plants, human nuclear activity has contaminated the Earth with radioactive material.Read More The post Germany’s Radioactive Wild Boars appeared first on DiaNuke.org ..read more

Pinar Demircan The author, Pınar Demircan (Ph.D. in sociology) is an independent researcher, Nukleersiz.org Coordinator and nuclear editor at Yesil Gazete. Her earlier articles on our website can be accessed here. The Discharge of Fukushima’s Radioactive Water could be a Precedent for Similar Actions [1] Underlying the disregard for objectionsRead More The post The Discharge of Fukushima’s Radioactive Water could be a Precedent for Similar Actions appeared first on DiaNuke.org ..read more

A River is Not a Radioactive Sewer Dr. Gordon Edwards | Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility Media conference presentation, New York State, August 23 2023, Re: Plans to dump radioactive wastewater into the Hudson River In 2017, I was invited to give a talk on the shores of the HudsonRead More The post “A River is Not a Radioactive Sewer”: Dr. Gordon Edwards on Radioactive Water Dumping in the Pacific Ocean, Hudson River appeared first on DiaNuke.org ..read more

Consequences of Nuclear Tests, Pokhran and Beyond: An Interview with Prof. Robert Jacobs | DiaNuke.org Editor’s note: On the 25th anniversary of the N-tests in South Asia, we are reproducing a DiaNuke.org interview with Prof. Robert Jacobs of the Hiroshima Peace Institute, Japan on the various human, climatic and politicalRead More The post Solidarities in the nuclear Anthropocene: Prof Bo Jacobs reflects on radioactive fallouts of N-tests appeared first on DiaNuke.org ..read more

India defiled, Indians diminished | Frontline, The Hindu – PRAFUL BIDWAI The BJP has inflicted nuclear humiliation upon the nation, while compromising India’s security and jeopardising popular welfare. MAY 11, 1998, will go down as one of the darkest days in India’s history, comparable to December 6, 1992. The threeRead More The post Inglorious fallacies and arrogant nuclearisms: Praful Bidwai on the 1998 N-tests appeared first on DiaNuke.org ..read more

Buddha is Smiling? Reflections on India’s Nuclear Tests | SACW Letter to my Daughters, my grandchildren – Indian, Pakistani, American from an anguished woman, wife, mother, grandmother, educator! – Lalita Ramdas May 12, 1998 It was an incredibly magnificent full moon night – Buddha Purnima, May 11 1998 – andRead More The post Is the Buddha still Smiling? Lalita Ramdas’ compelling reflections on India’s 1998 nuclear tests appeared first on DiaNuke.org ..read more