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10 May 2012 Radioactive enriched uranium findings prompt call for immediate halt to Hinkley C clearance Analyses of soil samples have confirmed the presence of enriched uranium on EDF’s site for their proposed nuclear power station at Hinkley Point. Enriched uranium is a man-made radioactive contaminant and does not exist in nature. The samples were collected by members of the Stop Hinkley Campaign and sent to Green Audit, an independent environmental consultancy, who commissioned separate laboratories in Oxfordshire and Germany to undertake the tests. Katy Attwater, Stop Hinkley’s spokesperson, explained: “From the start we had no confidence in the work that EDF’s contractors, AMEC, had done. For example, they wrongly stated in a report ‘that a full radiological survey of the entire site would not be possible’ and their reasons for not doing one were ludicrous. They said ‘This was due to the fact that the oil seed rape had not been harvested making pedestrian access to large areas of the site impossible. In addition the wheat crop had not been harvested’.” Click here for the press release >>>
Have Your Say on The Infrastructure Planning Commission (now re-named the Planning Inspectorate) will be holding four "open floor" hearings about EDF's Hinkley C plans in these locations:
Anybody registered as an "interested party" can attend, and (if they like) speak against the proposals. Make sure you take this opportunity to show your opposition to Hinkley C and book your slot. The deadline for making a booking is 5pm on Friday 4 May. Speaking at one of these meetings doesn't stop you from also submitting a representation in writing by the deadline of 3 May. Full details of the open floor hearings are in the letter which all interested parties should have been sent, |
30 April 2012 The Nuclear Free Local Authorities (NFLA) organisation and the Stop Hinkley campaign have submitted a joint detailed response to the Planning Inspectorate over EDF's application to build two new nuclear reactors at the Hinkley Point site in Somerset . The response warns that, if the application succeeds, Somerset will host a highly radioactive waste store for over 100 years following a planning process that is fundamentally undemocratic. Objectors have been given a scandalously short time to comment on the EDF application being considered by the Planning Inspectorate, which has taken over responsibility from the Infrastructure Planning Commission. This is despite the fact that serious doubts now hang over the project. These include the decision by power companies RWE and E-on to pull out of new nuclear build, question marks over new build raised by the CEO of Centrica (currently committed to a 20% investment in Hinkley Point C) and the real possibility that the French election results may see the Government-controlled EDF phase out up to a third of French nuclear reactors and severely damage its UK new nuclear investment plans.
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Over 20 people including Stop Hinkley members lobbied shareholders at last Friday's (11 May 2012) AGM of energy company Centrica in London asking them not to invest in Hinkley C. Carrying a banner reading “Don't Invest in Risky Nuclear Power” they handed out leaflets warning of the financial dangers involved.
Stop Hinkley member and Centrica shareholder, Sue Aubrey, was able to ask a question during the meeting asking for an assurance from the board of directors that they “are not going to get involved in this dangerous and risky proposal.” More>>> |
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