CND Press Digest: Tuesday 29th August 2023

Posted: 29th August 2023

War In Ukraine/NATO

  • The Guardian: Ukraine has confirmed it has captured a key village on the southern Zaporizhzhia front, the latest step in a gradual advance aimed at splitting the Russian lines that defend the overland route to Crimea.

Nuclear Testing

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

Labour Party

  • The Morning Star: Arms firms, oil companies and private healthcare among firms sponsoring this autumn’s Labour conference.
  • Labour in government will cut red tape and fast track energy projects, including nuclear reactors, writes The Times.

UK Nuclear Energy 

  • The BBC on the Environment Agency’s decision to remove the planning requirement for an acoustic fish deterrent system at the Hinkley Point C nuclear plant.
  • The managing director of finance and development for the Sizewell C nuclear power project, has told Partnerships Bulletin that the launch of Great British Nuclear (GBN) is an important landmark in the UK’s return to an era of nuclear power development.

Nuclear Energy

  • The Financial Times, Reuters, Middle East Monitor on Chinese and French hopes to secure a Saudi contract to build the kingdom a fleet of nuclear reactors.
  • Euro News with an opinion on the EU’s 14-nation strong pro-nuclear lobby and its efforts to hijack the bloc’s green transition fund.
  • The Telegraph: The Swedish government has quietly walked back an announcement that it would build at least 10 nuclear reactors by 2040 as part of its plan to ditch fossil fuels. Romina Pourmokhtari, Sweden’s climate and environment minister, announced earlier this month that Sweden needed to double electricity production in the next two decades in order to meet its climate goals. An accompanying statement said that “Sweden will need three times as much nuclear power in 20 years”. But the statement was quickly taken down from the government website and replaced with one that makes no mention of the ten new reactors.
  • An 18-year-old climate activist has called for Greenpeace to drop its “old-fashioned and unscientific” campaign against nuclear power in the EU.

RadWaste

  • BBC Future Planet visits the underground nuclear waste dump in Finland.  
  • The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has started a new blog series aimed at explaining its corporate strategy.
  • Texas nuclear waste storage permit invalidated by US appeals court.peals court.

Fukushima

  • A Plaid Cymru MS has written to Japan’s Ambassador to the UK expressing concern about the release of large quantities of radiated water into the Pacific Ocean.
  • BBC: The operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant says seawater samples taken around the facility are safe.
  • Associated Press: At Fukushima Daiichi, decommissioning the nuclear plant is far more challenging than water release.
  • Japan asks China to urge citizens to halt harassment after start of Fukushima wastewater release.

Iran Nuclear Deal

  • Iran says uranium enrichment continues based on domestic law.

Lakenheath

More proof that US nuclear weapons are coming to Britain. New US Air Force budget documents refer to the need for more housing at Lakenheath - in order to cater for the increased number of air personnelneeded for storing and operating nuclear weapons at the base. The Federation of American Scientists

Best,

 

Pádraig McCarrick

 

Press and Communications Officer

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

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