This is the last of the TOO LONG nuclear-news emails – (next week -shorter)
Theme of the week – It’s all so complicated – time to simplify these newsletters. So, next week’s one will be shorter and clearer.Some bits of good news – The world’s largest and longest-running ecological project. Africa is smashing all the solar records. Road deaths have fallen 21% worldwide since 2011, even as more than a billion vehicles have joined the roads
TOP STORIES. The Theocratic Trap – How Divine Claims Become Engines of Destruction.
Ukraine: America’s Enduring Proxy War on Russia.
Climate. A supercharged El Niño is threatening more deadly heatwaves — and Americans are ignoring the risks. ‘It’s only going to get worse’: wildfires forcing firefighters to make impossible choices.
Noel’s notes. Crunch time for the nuclear lobby’s biggest lie (Small Modular Nuclear Reactors)?
AUSTRALIA.
“Intolerable pressure”- Inside the Israel lobby campaign to coerce regulators on antisemitism.
Close that Facility: The 2026 Pine Gap Protests.
Senior naval officer facing court martial over naval contracts – breaking news from WA.
UN refutes Jillian Segal’s Gaza death toll claim before Royal Commission.
NUCLEAR-RELATED ITEMS
EMPLOYMENT. New Swiss nuclear plants could put thousands of renewables jobs at risk.
POLITICS.
POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.
German historian and academic, Tarik Cyril Amar: “It is the West that is using Ukraine as cannon fodder and has been for years”.
Richard Sakwa interview on The Russo-Ukrainian War: Follies of Empire.
Von der Leyen paints target signs on Europe with Ukraine drone pact.
Nuclear deal that would permit uranium enrichment by Saudi Arabia in limbo awaiting Trump admin sign-off.
WASTES.
Uncertainty over West Cumbria nuclear waste plan continues.
July 25, 2026 –
Posted by Christina Macpherson |
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