CND Press Digest: Wednesday 10th January 2024

War In Ukraine/NATO

• CND website: Nuclear threat rises as Lukashenko announces completion of Russian nuke delivery.
• According to NATO, the recent activation exercise of Operation Sea Guardian (OSG) in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea has successfully demonstrated the deploymentcapabilities of maritime special forces.
• That’s as an Italian ex-admiral warns that the US and EU’s inability to field a joint naval mission in the Red Sea is a sign of weakness in dangerous times.
• Tortoise: New warnings of war between Russia and NATO.

Gaza War

• Antony Blinken tells Israel: Palestinian rights are key to peace.
• David Cameron worried Israel may have broken international law in Gaza.

Indo-Pacific

• China has leaning towards joining AUKUS?

• Nuclear power and net zero: Too little, too late, too expensive. Prof Steve Thomas, Greenwich University, assesses the considerable obstacles to the UK government’s target for new nuclear power.
• EDF in talks with Somerset Council for workforce increase.
• Reuters, BBC, and the Times on plans by EDF to extend the life of four of its UK nuclear reactors.
• BBC on the extension of the Heysham 1 and 2 nuclear reactors.
• The UK government delayed the restart of the Onagawa No. 2 reactor by several months.
• Reuters: The US is seeking bids from contractors to help establish a domestic supply of a uranium fuel enriched to higher levels for use in a next generation of reactors, a fuel currently only available in commercial levels from Russia, the Department of Energy said on Tuesday.

Military Emissions

• The Guardian: The climate costs of war and militaries can no longer be ignored.

Best,

Pádraig McCarrick

Press and Communications Officer

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament