Mercifully short nuclear news bulletin

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AUSTRALIA

Yes – mercifully short. We are swamped with tripey media about the coming election. It’s all too much. Except for the Greens, political parties pretty well ignore climate change and renewable energy. Debates ?- Christine Milne doesn’t get a look in. Preference deals ? very confusing. here’s a good link to advise on preference matters http://www.belowtheline.org.au/

Renewable energy. Just as nuclear propagandist Martin Nicholson tells us, (in impenetrable jargon) how cheap nuclear power will be for Australia, Giles Parkinson reports on the Australian government now acknowledging that renewable energy is no more costly than fossil fuels.

INTERNATIONAL

I could go on about the parlous state of the uranium market, and of the nuclear industry in USA.

However, the overwhelming new is about Fukushima. New radioactive water leaks are appearing. Some from the water storage tanks? Some from welling up of groundwater?. Anyway this is recognised as a new crisis, with no solution coming any time soon.

Meanwhile, the nuclear propagandists have gone very quiet on what a success the Fukushima clean-up is. Indeed, the nuclear propagandists have gone very quiet. Except in Australia – where Martin Nicholson continues his proud history of damning renewable energy, praising nuclear power, and dazzling us all with impressive, but unintelligible blather.