CND Press Digest: Thursday 23rd March 2023

War In Ukraine/NATO

• CND Chair Tom Unterrainer spoke to BBC World Service about Britain supplying depleted uranium tank rounds to Ukraine. You can listen on the BBC iPlayer here, segment starts around 16.30 into the programme.
• Sky News also picked up CND’s concerns about the use of DU ammunition in this explainer.
• UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly denied that sending DU ammo to Ukraine amounted to a nuclear escalation.
• The UN’s nuclear agency has warned that the situation at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant “remains perilous”.

Nuclear Weapons

• Vicki Elson writes for Pressenza on the summit for the nuclear weapons industry.

UK Nuclear Energy

• Coverage of yesterday’s High Court challenge against Sizewell C in The Evening Standard, East Anglian Daily Times, Reuters, and The BBC.
• The Telegraph laments how Rolls Royce - and by extension Britain - has been overtaken by the US and the firm NuScale in the SMR race.
• A new report commissioned by the UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has found that borehole disposal cannot completely negate the need for a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF).
• Initial study to consider the suitability of elements of UK nuclear waste inventory for Deep Isolation’s disposal solution.
• Carlisle MP John Stevenson has announced that plans for a third nuclear conference for the region are well underway.

Nuclear Energy

• France’s plan to force nuclear power into the EU’s green energy plan is facing some opposition/ Read Luxembourg’s leader Xavier Bettel’s interview with Politico.
• That’s as the French Parliament voted with a large majority in favour of Macron’s nuclear investment plan.

North Korea

• US intelligence has claimed that North Korea is poised to conduct a nuclear test coinciding with US-South Korean military drills.

Best,

Pádraig McCarrick

Press and Communications Officer

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament