Dear all,

Please find today’s press roundup below. Thank you all for your continued support.

CND Press Digest: Monday 28th October 2024

Nukes in Britain

• Dunfermline Press: MP seeks answers on submarine dismantling project in Rosyth.

Global Nukes

• The Local: Danish bank to allow investments in nuclear weapons production.Denmark’s biggest lender Danske Bank says it is changing its policy to allow investments in nuclear weapons production, citing ‘geopolitical developments’.

MDA

• The Morning Star report on CND’s comments about the Mutual Defence Agreement.,

Nuclear Testing

• The Metro runs a feature on the legacy of US nuclear weapons testing in the Marshall Island.
• The Japan Times reports on the difficulties Japan is facing in finding a disposal sitefor radioactive waste.

Middle East

• Egypt urges two-day truce as Israel kills 1,000 during northern Gaza siege.President el-Sisi’s plan includes exchanging four Israeli captives held in Gaza for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.

Iran

• The Independent and NATO / Europe
  • The Telegraph: Scholz has ‘kissed goodbye’ to nuclear deterrence. Germany exposed to blackmail from rogue states like Iran, warns foreign policy expert.

  UK Nuclear Energy

  • The Guardian: Reeves urged not to cut Sellafield funds amid concern at rise in ‘near misses’. GMB raises safety concerns amid rumours of budget cuts across sites and Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.
  • NFLAs believe budget is opportunity to lobby Ministers to ditch Sizewell C.
  • The Telegraph interviews a senior executive at nuclear firm Holtec, who claims Britain’s planning rules has made it “impossible to build stuff.”
  • The East Anglia Daily Times speaks to North Norfolk residents about the possibility of turning the Bacton Gas Terminal into a nuclear plant.

  Nuclear Energy

  • Japan Times: This week, the operator of the tsunami-stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant will resume an operation to remove a sample of highly radioactive material.

  AUKSU / Indo-Pacific

  •  War on the Rocks looks at nuclear tensions on the Korean peninsula. 

  Best,

   

  Pádraig McCarrick

   

  Press and Communications Officer

  Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament