CND Press Digest: Friday 19th July 2024

Posted: 22nd July 2024

Nukes in Britain

  • CND website: CND General Secretary to address rally at RAF Lakenheath peace camp, Saturday 20 July.
  • The Canary: The US is going to store its nukes in the UK again – but people are pushing back.

Global Nukes

  • Reuters: Russia does not rule out new deployments of nuclear missiles in response to the planned U.S. stationing of long-range conventional weapons in Germany, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov was quoted as saying on Thursday. Interfax news agency cited Ryabkov as saying that the defence of Russia’s Kaliningrad region, which is wedged between NATO members Poland and Lithuania, was a particular focus.
  • European Leadership Network: More than two years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the nuclear non-proliferation regime and other multilateral institutions controlling weapons of mass destruction are in a deep state of crisis. This crisis is different from previous ones because international and domestic trends towards competition and polarisation interact and reinforce each other: it has generally become harder to build coalitions strong enough to make the case for solutions that require some give-and-take. At the same time, these negative developments have triggered counter-movements. States parties could and should seize these opportunities to make the nuclear non-proliferation regime fit for a much tougher future.
  • Defense News: Germany must to raise its nuclear-deterrence IQ.

Space

  • The Mirror: Fears are growing in the US that long-standing enemies Russia and China have a growing ambition to ignite attacks on the country from space. There have been increasing fears for some time that Russia may one day deploy nuclear weapons in space, with huge ramifications and financial cost for America if Putin ever decided to take that course.

Gaza

  • The National: People join hands around Westminster in protest over arms sales to Israel.
  • Socialist Worker: Thousands of pro-Palestine campaigners link arms around parliament.
  • My London: Westminster Palestine and pro-Israel protests attract huge police response.
  • The Morning Star: Activist form a human chain around Parliament and demand new government stops arms sales to Israel.
  • Tribune: The student encampments were only the start.

UK Nuclear Power

  • Business Green: Nuclear Industry Association application seeks regulatory justification for Rolls-Royce’s small modular reactor nuclear technology. The Nuclear Industry Association (NIA) has today applied for a regulatory justification decision for Rolls-Royce small modular reactor (SMR) nuclear power plant design, in a move the trade body has hailed as a UK first.
  • Lancaster Guardian: Morecambe MP pushes for talks with Great British Nuclear boss about new power station at Heysham. Labour MP Lizzi Collinge wrote to ask chief executive Gwen Parry Jones OBE, for an early meeting about a possible Heysham 3 SMR power station.
  • North Wales Chronicle: The newly elected Plaid Cymru MP for Ynys Môn, Llinos Medi, has today (July 18) asked her first question in the House of Commons. She asked the secretary of state for energy security and net zero, Ed Miliband, what “specific plans” the new Labour UK Government had for new nuclear in Wylfa and Trawsfynydd. 

Nuclear Energy

  • World Nuclear News: Egypt’s first nuclear power plant is pushing ahead - with the core catcher for unit 3 now on site, a 2000-tonne capacity crane installed and Rosatom reporting that 75% of the blanks to be used for unit 1’s reactor equipment now produced.
  • IAEA boss Rafael Grossi NATO / Europe

    AUKUS / Asia-Pacific

    • CNN: Japan’s top general lauds closer South Korea military ties as mutual concerns grow over China, North Korea.

    Best,

     

    Pádraig McCarrick

     

    Press and Communications Officer

    Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

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