Beyond Nuclear International Weekly Digest

Posted: 13th February 2023

Beyond Nuclear International Weekly Digest

The latest devastating earthquake in Turkey should put an end to the Akkuyu nuclear plant project and any others, writes Maria Sotiropoulou. We don’t need to rush to Mars, get there on nuclear-powered rockets, put reactors on Mars or the moon, or build any more on Earth, writes Linda Pentz Gunter. 

The massive earthquake in Turkey may this time have spared the 4-reactor Russian nuclear power plant under construction at Akkuyu on the Turkish coast, but this latest quake, by no means the first, should end further progress. Citizens have raised the alarm before after earlier earthquakes but Turkey’s president seems to have another agenda - nuclear weapons. MORE

Not good rocket science

NASA wants to use nuclear-powered rockets (which could explode on launch) to send humans to Mars and put nuclear power plants there and on the moon, money better spent addressing problems on Earth, never mind the risks. But political leaders remain entranced by nuclear fantasies while oblivious to the dangers, wasting precious time exploring new nuclear projects instead of deploying effective climate mitigators. MORE

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