CND Press Digest: 26th September 2023

War In Ukraine/NATO

• Ukraine says Russian Black Sea Fleet commander among 34 officers killed in a recent missile attack on the fleet’s HQ in Crimea.

RAF Lakenheath

• We’ve added a new item to the CND website on Saturday’s Lakenheath day of action. Includes pictures from various events, press coverage, and a video report by BBC Look East.

Nuclear Abolition

• Only way to end nuclear risk ‘is to eliminate nuclear weapons’: Guterres.
• BBC: Christmas Island nuclear veteran disappointed by posted medal.
• Britain’s nuclear bomb guinea pigs: The untold story.
• Decades after nuclear testing, Bikini Atoll continues to fascinate researchers today.
• Radio Free Europe reports on a recent CNN story about increased work by nuclear states at their nuclear sites, focusing on Moscow.  

DSEI

• Camden New Journal has a report on the recent DSEI arms fair.

Nuclear Weapons

• Insider: How hydrogen bombs compare to atomic bombs, and how scientists created the most destructive weapon ever.

UK Nuclear Energy

• NFLA were incredulous to hear the recent claim by Sizewell C’s Joint Managing Director that EDF’s project plan was based on ‘a mature reactor design’.
• NFLA has also UNITE union says small modular reactors in Britain must be built.
• The Cumberland News & Star with a pro-Great British Nuclear article.

Nuclear Energy

• IAEA boss Rafael Grossi has said the tide is turning on the public’s attitude to nuclear power.
• Poland grants environmental permit for country’s first nuclear power plant.

Fusion

• The New York Times: A laser fusion breakthrough gets a bigger burst of energy.
• AP Interview: Jennifer Granholm says US aims to create nuclear fusion facilitywithin 10 years.

Nuclear Gulf 

• Reuters: Saudi Arabia says it plans tougher IAEA checks on its nuclear activities.
• That’s as Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi said in a US television interview that US-sponsored efforts to normalize Israeli relations with Gulf Arab states, including Saudi Arabia, “will see no success.”

Nuclear Korea

• South Korea has held its first large-scale military parade in a decade to mark the country’s Armed Forces Day. In a speech to mark the event, President Yoon Suk Yeol warned North Korea against the use of nuclear weapons and pledged to ramp up support for the military and the defence industry.
• North Korean regime will ‘end’ if it uses nuclear weapons, warns S.Korean president.

Best,

Pádraig McCarrick

Press and Communications Officer

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament