When sending your objection to EDF's application to the Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC) for consent to construct Hinkley C, you may find the following notes useful.

Criticisms of the Wakeman report as Fukushima are still ongoing as well as Greenpeace's legal challenge of the National Policy Statement so anti nuclear opinion can be mentioned (even though they claim they will be ignored) but be aware that registering other points is important as anti-nuclear ones will be ignored at least until the legal challenge is concluded.

Hinkley Point is not the right site, as its one of the worst ecological impact sites regarding habitats, ecology etc.

There is local experience of public health damage, data from Burnham on Sea downwind of Hinkley. http://www.stophinkley.org/Health.htm

Here are some key points to refer to.

EFFECT ON ROADS (Council is unhappy with this)

• Construction traffic, vehicle movement through village.
• Traffic through Sedgemoor and through Bridgwater town.
• Only one road and no bypass planned for Bridgwater.
• Damage to housing - vibration
• Impact on quality of life
• Local Consultation in actual area around Hinkley Point, has it been sufficient?
• Compulsory Purchase Orders
• Emergency vehicles in local areas, can they get in and out?
• Roads and Infrastructure, Hinkley C workers may not be able to get to work due to their own traffic, roads clogged up (seen in other major construction sites) as this will be the largest building site in UK .
• Congestion will affect tourism for many years.
• Congestion will affect farming for many years.
• This will be the Sellafield of the West country with only one road to it.
• 700 Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGV) per day through Bridgwater.

EVACUATION PLANS

• Evacuation plans in the event of any catastrophe doesn't appear to be in the EDF application.
• If there is an emergency on site, trying to get out on one road.
• If B station has an accident while C is being built EDF doesn't have evacuation procedure for the workers.

FLOODING ISSUE

• There is a 100 year risk in this area and waste storage will be kept on site for at least 160 years.

DELAY WITH EDF NUCLEAR BUILDS

• EDF have 3 EPR build projects with design and construction problems resulting in time and cost over-runs at Flamanville (France), Olkiluoto (Finland) and Taishan (China)

WASTE – SPENT FUEL

• Storage area ponds not designed yet.
• Hinkley only has a 7 year storage capacity?
• High level Waste Storage facility, we have not had that before at Hinkley.
• Cooling of Spent Waste how will this be done?

DEMOCRACY

• Nuclear lessons learned
• Lack of Consultation
• National Grid impact – Pylons
• Lack of national debate and lack of enquiries.
• We haven't had a choice
• EDF is the most complained about energy company
• NNB Genco Ltd are not experienced at building nuclear power stations
• EDF have 2 pressurized reactors running late with design faults and have not yet successfully completed this type of project.
• EDF have been giving ‘sweeteners' to local schools and businesses, and have stifled and tried to control the anti-nuclear point of view.

RISK ELEMENT

• High and harmful impact of nuclear
• Government are not open and heard by us.

CONTAMINATION OF LAND

• Ref: Green Audit Report
• High level waste storage on site.

STATUS OF LAND

• Hinkley Point includes Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI)
• The Government's Public Service Agreement (PSA) target to have 95% of the SSSI area in favourable or recovering condition by 2010
• Removal of Woodlands and Hedges affecting habitat for a variety of protected species.
• The legislation is there to ensure conservation of that area.

HEALTH

• Impact of chronic low level radiation exposure on health and the local ecology is being ignored.
• Discharges of airborne and liquid radioactive emissions into the environment affect local and downwind populations and contaminate soils and sediment in the estuary, e.g Bridgwater Bay mudflats.
• Monitoring and reporting of radioactive discharges unacceptable (public only given annual average figures)
• Health issues at Burnham-on-Sea and elsewhere.

JOBS PROMISE

• Inadequate assessment of the number and impacts of large numbers of foreign workers.
• Risk of unemployment going up as more people flock to the area for work than there are jobs available, as happened at Flamanville.
• As an employer EDF treats its workers very poorly. French trade unions say workers are treated like slaves.