CND Press Digest: Thursday 7th March 2024
Posted: 7th March 2024
NATO / Europe
- Reuters: Nuclear chief Grossi meets Putin to discuss Zaporizhzhia plant.
- The Atlantic: A looming disaster at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. At the facility, occupied by Russia for the past two years, employees describe a regime of torture and abuse—and a growing threat of disaster.
- Financial Times: Sweden joins ‘NATO lake’ on Moscow’s doorstep.
Middle East & North Africa
- France, Germany and the UK (E3) gave a joint statement to the IAEA Board of Governors on Iran’s implementation of its nuclear commitments under the JCPoA.
- This Wall Street Journal opinion accuses Joe Biden of brushing off an IAEA report on Iran’s nuclear programme.
Space
- Foreign Affairs: Why Russia might put a nuclear weapon in space.
- New York Times: Atom bombs in space are back to scare us again.
Global Nukes
- Julianne Moore, Jane Fonda and Emma Thompson among stars asking to ‘make nukes history’. Coalition of celebrities, also including J Robert Oppenheimer’s grandson, comes together for an open letter imploring global leaders to disarm. The letter is part of part of a new campaign called Makes Nukes History, launched by the Nuclear Threat Initiative.
- The Times: Oppenheimer’s Los Alamos home exerts a strong nuclear force. With his blockbuster biopic up for 13 Oscars this week, the scientist’s Manhattan Project home is luring in visitors more interested in Hollywood than physics.
- New York Times: Nuclear risks have not gone away.
- Plutonium pit ‘panic’ threatens America’s nuclear ambitions.
- FAS: Make nukes history.
- CounterPunch: On the brink of nuclear war.
Nukes in Britain
- Mike Edwards: Trident nuclear weapons aren’t much of a deterrent if they don’t work.
UK Nuclear Energy
- Budget: UK government to buy Wylfa site in £160m deal.
- Former care home in Bridgwater could house Hinkley workers.
- XE Network: In Episode #209, we peeled back the layers on civilian nuclear power, revealing its history as a facade for the nuclear weapons industry with a corresponding legacy of deception.
- US investor targets Britain’s ‘nuclear triangle’ for mini-nuke factory. Export of reactors built in the UK could be worth £4bn annually.
Nuclear Energy
- Chornobyl worms’ DNA unharmed by chronic radiation. Identifying animals resilient to DNA damage may provide clues for human risk factors.
Best,
Pádraig McCarrick
Press and Communications Officer
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
