CND Press Digest: Tuesday 9th January 2024

War In Ukraine/NATO

• US sees Turkey agreeing to Sweden NATO accession shortly, Blinken says.
• Turkey must stop blocking Ukraine minehunters, ex-NATO supreme commander says Russia is denying access to Ukrainian power station.
• Russian nuclear weapons shipments to Belarus completed, says president Lukashenko.

Gaza War

• Explainer: What is the genocide case against Israel at top UN court?
• How apartheid history shaped South Africa’s genocide case against Israel.
• Calcalistech: Prof. Joel Mokyr paints a nightmare scenario where both Israelis and Palestinians, and many others, have nuclear capabilities. But he also thinks that this is what will lead Israel to an agreement with the Palestinians.

AUKUS

• AUKUS and an aggressive US imperium, its reach vast, its mind paranoid.

Nuclear Weapons

• Nikkei Asia: US rushes to revive nuclear weapons industry as global tensions mount.
• The Hill: What could drive Israel and Iran to start launching nuclear weapons?

RAF Lakenheath

• A new BBC Panorama documentary is set to look into the ongoing saga around nuclear weapons potentially being stored at RAF Lakenheath.

UK Nuclear Weapons

• Britain’s Royal Navy resorts to LinkedIn to recruit a top submarine role that will oversee the nation’s nuclear program, reports say.
• A UK government minister has insisted 150 documents about nuclear veterans which are hidden among state secrets hold no useful information about their missing medical records - while admitting he hasn’t read them.
• Isle of Wight H-bomb test veterans recount 1957 experiences.

UK Nuclear Energy

• The top director responsible for safety and security at Sellafield is to leave the position later this year. It follows an exposé by The Guardian newspaper on poor safety standards, crumbling infrastructure, and a toxic work culture at the vast nuclear dump.
• The Telegraph: Britain is to become the first European country to launch a programme for high-tech uranium so the next generation of nuclear reactors are not dependent on imports from Russia.
• EDF Energy has revealed investment plans to extend the lives of its operational nuclear power plants in the UK.
• Hinkley Point C proposes new wetland reserve to protect fish from cooling system.

Nuclear Energy

• Net-Zero and Nonproliferation: Assessing nuclear power and its alternatives.
• NuScale Power said on Monday it will lay off about 28 percent of its full-time employees as part of its cost-saving measures.
• CGTN reports on the early operations of the first fourth-generation nuclear power plant located in southern China, which went into commercial production in early December.

Iran Nuclear Deal

• Mirage News: How quickly could Iran make nuclear weapons today?
• yNet: Is Hezbollah fighting to aid in Iran’s race to nuclear bomb?
• The Times: A Dutch engineer played the “crucial role” in a mission to sabotage Iran’s nuclear weapons programme with a sophisticated computer virus as part of a US and Israeli mission, without the knowledge of his country’s government.

Fukushima

• Japan earthquake casts cloud over push to restart nuclear plants.
• Japan earthquake causes nuclear power station oil leak.

CND

• CND’s teemill store gets a review in this piece by Nation.Cymru.

Best,

 

Pádraig McCarrick

 

Press and Communications Officer

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament