CND News Digest 18.8.23

Posted: 18th August 2023

War In Ukraine/NATO

The United States has approved sending F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine from Denmark and the Netherlands as soon as pilot training is completed.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has told an interview that Russia is not trying to push Belarus into its war in Ukraine but noted that Minsk will always help Russia.

AUKUS

Labor thrashes out its AUKUS position at party conference amid dissent (and approved by the Environment Agency but campaigners argue that these will impact the fish population.
BBC: Some of the UK’s oldest nuclear waste has been removed from its original storage facility at Sellafield in what has been described as a “momentous” step.
Financial Times: The nuclear industry needs to show it can deliver.

Nuclear Energy

Workers have begun loading radioactive fuel into a second new nuclear reactor at Plant Vogtle in the US state of Georgia.
The Telegraph and poses early test for Japan-South Korea unity.
However, Joe Biden hopes to tighten S. Korean, Japanese bond at Camp David.
That’s as North Korea is preparing for a new round of provocative weapons displays such as long-range missile tests and a spy satellite launch, as it ramps up illicit activities to support its fragile economy, South Korea’s intelligence service toldlawmakers Thursday.
Chugoku Electric Power Co. called on its mayor to submit the city’s name as a candidate site for final storage of nuclear waste.

Hiroshima & Nagasaki