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Article: Push for Nuclear Power at UNs COP28 Climate Change Conference - U.S. leads coalition to triple nuclear power by 2050 in effort to address climate change, was the headline of a December 4th CNBC conference called COP28 being held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on the climate crisis. Indeed, that was what has happened--despite evidence that nuclear power is not the antidote to climate change, stopping the burning of fossil fuels and utilizing truly green energy led by solar and wind is.

In the way of a vested interest, nuclear interests, corporate and governmental, moved in on COP28. Beyond its danger and multi-billion dollar cost, nuclear power is not an antidote for climate change—it’s not “carbon emissions-free” the nuclear fuel cycle—including uranium mining, enrichment and fabrication of nuclear fuel—is “carbon intensive.” by Karl Grossman., Dec 6, 2023,…

Archbishop Gabriele Cacccia, the Holy See's Permanent observer to the United Nations, highlights the disproportionate impact of nuclear weapons on women and girls, and urges synergy between the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and existing disarmament measures. By Francesca Merlo,  https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2023-12/archbishop-caccia-united-nations-nuclear-weapons-disarmament.html-- Nuclear weapons have catastrophic humanitarian and environmental consequenc...

Most of the exposure people received came in the form of internal exposures from ingesting radioactivity, not from exter­nal, ambient gamma rays in the environment. Medical examinations of people in contaminated regions showed a significant increase in the general number of chromosomal mutations in newborns, and the frequency of birth defects in southern Belarus was…

“Without civilian nuclear energy there is no military use of this technology – and without military use there is no civilian nuclear energy,” Macron said during a visit to Framatome’s Le Creusot facility in December 2020. The French nuclear mullahs are at the heart of this international lobby. In particular, they are engaged in a…

Nuclear New Zealand?

Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka says his support of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report on Fukushima Nuclear Plant discharging nuclear

As a part of a $1 billion aid package, the United States announced that it is sending depleted anti-tank munitions to Ukraine to help Zelensky’s troops fend off Russian tanks. The armor-piercing rounds first developed during the Cold War by the U.S. will be fired from 31 M1A1 Abrams tanks that are planned to be…

It will be the first time the US is sending the controversial armour-piercing munitions to Ukraine.

The US has announced it will send controversial weapons to Ukraine as part of more than $1bn (£800m) in military and humanitarian aid.