Nuclear power – The Free

Swallow the nuclear spin, baby, swallow the spin!

Keir Starmer waves his magic wand over obvious realities – over rocketing cost, infinite dangers and slow delivery for Small Nuclear Reactors.

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The world gasps at the US Americans swallowing lie after lie from the superb dissimulator Donald Trump, but it might not notice Britain’s “worthy, virtuous, man of the working people”, Keir Starmer, also proclaiming a set of lies.

Starmer has got into a super-confident sort of Trumpian mode as he pronounces ‘Build baby build’.

Yes, Sir Keir is “taking on the blockers” to bring the UK back to a leadership position on building nuclear power. The “blockers” are safety and environmental regulators. A new Nuclear Regulatory Taskforce will be established to speed up and streamline the approval of new reactors. This will report directly to the PM.

For the first time, mini-nuclear power stations will be included in planning rules. Nuclear sites could now be built anywhere across England and Wales, as a list restricting the sites for new reactors will be scrapped. The expiry date on planning rules will be scrapped. A specialist taskforce will lead on making sure nuclear regulation incentivises investment, to deliver new projects more quickly. It will all apply to both the civil and the military nuclear industry.

Pro-Palestinian activists and supporters carry a giant mask of Britain’s main opposition Labour Party leader, Keir Starmer during a National March for Palestine in central London . Hamas’s unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7, 2023 which left about 1,140 dead in Israel, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official figures, and saw 250 hostages dragged back into Gaza sparked the war which is still raging in the besieged Gaza Strip. After almost 100 days of war, at least 23,357 people have been killed in the fighting, the majority of them women and children, according to the Hamas health ministry — or almost one percent of the population. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)

This has been greeted with joy by X-Energy, EDF, Microsoft, Great British NUclear, the Nuclear Industry Association, Prospect, the Institute of Directors, Laing O’Rourke, Nuclear EMEA at AtkinsRéali, GCHQ, tech UK, newcleo – indeed, all the people who hope to make a financial killing from the UK tax-payer.

Others are less enthused.

Catalonia: Right and Left pact for a Republic

They said it was impossible, but Right and Left have agreed joint local rule to promote a campaign for Catalan Independence from Spain.

The CiU conservative leader had called elections to cash in on a tidal wave of sentiment for independence, as Madrid reneged on agreements and appeared set on milking Catalonia dry, along with racist and neo fascist insults.

However the electorate thought differently and CiU lost their majority, while the left republicans shot up. But pro independence parties have a huge majority and a pact was made, the left will have to vote for savage social cuts on top of a record recession, while the right will have to share power and give in to some important ERC demands.

The workers and social movements have been quick to decry the move as a ruse to defuse revolutionary actions due to the locally collapsing capitalist system.and oppose yet another State, this time in the hands of the corrupt Catalan business and political class.

Ecologists and Greens however celebrated the agreement to tax Nuclear Power, as well as a key measure to tax Carbon Dioxide emissions, which is a brilliant precedent in Europe.

Chances of persuading Madrid to allow the referendum however are nil, they have threatened to jail Catalan leaders who propose it. Continue reading “Catalonia: Right and Left pact for a Republic”

Police Kill Anti-Nuke fisherman, Resistance GROWS

A group of fisherfolk staging “jal satyagraha” in the sea, against the Kudankulam nuclear power project at Veerapandianpattinam coast in Tuticorin district on Friday. (Photo: N.Rajesh)

Despite the killing of an anti-nuclear protester by police on Monday, hundreds of protesters forming a human chain stood in sea waters today, for the second day in a row, demanding a halt to preparations for fuel loading into the reactor of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) in Tuticorin district. Continue reading “Police Kill Anti-Nuke fisherman, Resistance GROWS”