Beyond Nuclear International Weekly Digest ,MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Posted: 11th November 2024

The billionaire tech bros want nuclear energy to power their energy-guzzling data centers but their boasts about its values are all hype writes M.V. Ramana. And the “special relationship” between the UK and the US just got cozier as Keir Starmer ties the UK’s nuclear flag to the US mast in perpetuity, says Linda Pentz Gunter.

Big tech falsely hypes nuclear

Big tech companies such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft, have already tried to greenwash their profiles. But their energy-greedy data centers are a climate menace, made worse by these corporations’ latest schemes to use nuclear energy to power them. To try to get away with it, they paint nuclear power as safe, green and reliable - all hype and all untrue. READ MORE

Tighter leash on a nuclear poodle

The Mutual Defence Agreement that allows transfer of nuclear weapons technology from the US to the UK used to be renewed by the UK parliament every ten years. But the new Labour government quietly amended it without debate or vote so that the treaty cannot be changed, opening up a convenient trade route for Rolls Royce and putting the MDA “beyond democratic accountability in perpetuity.” MORE

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