Beyond Nuclear International Weekly Digest, MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2025
Posted: 6th October 2025
Yet another “golden” nuclear con job is announced, this time in the UK. And fears of a nuclear catastrophe are renewed as the Zaporizhzhia 6-reactor plant in Ukraine loses offsite power for a tenth time. Beyond Nuclear’s Linda Pentz Gunter reports.
BEYOND NUCLEAR INTERNATIONAL
Another golden nuclear rip-off
As Trump landed in Britain for his state visit the UK government borrowed his rhetoric to announce a “Golden Age of Nuclear” deal between the two countries that is anything but. Promising working class jobs and “energy independence,” it is instead another bonanza for predominantly US corporations and their unproven and unlicensed reactor designs, ensuring more costly delays in tackling the climate crisis instead of funding genuine remedies. READ MORE
Danger Déjà vu in Ukraine
A prolonged power outage causing workers to resort to diesel generators for more than a week has raised renewed alarm about a possible disaster in the making at the currently closed Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in war torn Ukraine. Meanwhile, a new report reveals gross human rights abuses against plant workers by the occupying Russian forces, leading to further concerns about plant safety. READ MORE
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