CND Press Digest: Thursday 11th May 2023

War In Ukraine/NATO

• Russia plans to relocate about 2,700 Ukrainian staff from Europe’s largest nuclear plant, Ukraine’s atomic energy company has claimed, warning of a potential “catastrophic lack of qualified personnel” at the Zaporizhzhia facility in Russian-occupied southern Ukraine.

AUKUS

• The Washington Examiner runs this opinion arguing that Canada should be omitted from any future participation in the AUKUS pact - claiming the country is a weak link on China.

UK Nuclear Energy

• UK government factsheet on Great British Nuclear.
• The Welsh body Cwmni Egino has completed the first stage of planning to develop a small modular reactor (SMR) site at Trawsfynydd.
• East Anglia is among the seven regions of England that could run out of water by 2030.

Nuclear Energy

• EDF’s issued a licence on Tuesday to Holtec to build an operate a temporary nuclear waste dump in New Mexico - despite a new state law that bans the storage of waste until the federal government figures out a permanent solution.
• Canada’s radioactive waste and decommissioning policy is a failure, Magnox has awarded a £53 million contract for clean-up services as part of the decommissioning of the Berkeley nuclear plant.

Fusion

• Microsoft visits the defunct nuclear site later this month.

Israel Nuclear Weapons

• The Bulletin writes about the US silence on Israel’s nuclear weapons and the actions of its right-wing government.

Best,

Pádraig McCarrick

Press and Communications Officer

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament