CND Press Digest: Friday 25th August 2023

War In Ukraine/NATO

• The US will begin training Ukrainian pilots on the F-16 from October. The announcement comes as Norway joined the Netherlands and Denmark in saying they will send F-16s to Kyiv.
• Greece has also indicated it will step up its military support to Ukraine - which could include F-16 training and a heavy weapons package. Athens is also eying a role in the reconstruction of Ukraine, helping to redevelop its ports.
• Ukrainian forces have raised the national flag in the settlement of Robotyne in the southern Zaporizhzhia region.
• What we know about Prigozhin’s ‘last flight’ – a visual guide.

Britain

• Open Democracy: Labour conference set to host weapons manufacturers and spyware firm.

AI

• Austrian disarmament director Alexander Kmentt is one of several quoted in this BBC article on the dangers of AI and weapons.

Nuclear Testing

• Endless fallout: the Pacific idyll still facing nuclear blight 77 years on.

Nuclear Energy

• Reuters: Saudi Arabia is considering a Chinese bid to build it a nuclear power plant, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, a decision that could derail US plans in the kingdom.
• Renew Economy: The Australian Financial Review has been trying to make a big thing about nuclear power, and small modular reactors in particular. But it seems its ideological enthusiasm for the technology is trumping its fact checking capabilities.
• Reuters Fact Check: Niger has not banned uranium exports to France and EU.
• Ontario Power Generation is trying to recast nuclear power in a positive light with a propaganda campaign using movie posters.
• Associated Press: Environmental group suffers setback in legal fight to close California’s last nuclear power plant.

Fukushima

• News item on CND website condemning the Fukushima water release.
• Ian Fairlie quoted in over its own release of wastewater from nuclear plants.
• The Mirror: Fears of ‘real-life Godzilla’ as Japan dumps waste from Fukushima plant into sea.
• Reuters: Reaction to Japan’s release of water from Fukushima nuclear plant.
• Reuters: More nuclear challenges await Japan after Fukushima water release.

CND

• The New Statesman on EP Thompson’s dystopian visions.

Best,

Pádraig McCarrick

Press and Communications Officer

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament