The decommissioning costs for the UK’s nuclear generation are coming home to roost, and they are laying golden eggs for the firms that won the business. For UK citizens, not so much. Despite the very high costs of both the new nuclear reactors at Hinkley Site C, the rapidly rising …
BRISTOL CHANNEL 2022 SEDIMENT SAMPLING RESULTS
For the second year running, an independent Citizen’s Science Radioactivity Survey of Somerset and South Wales shoreline sediments proves that the spread of man-made radioactivity from reactor discharges to the Bristol Channel is far more extensive and widespread throughout the region’s coasts than previously reported by Government and the nuclear …
Graphite cracking continued cause for concern on day Hinkley Point B closes
Today (10am, 1 August) Reactor 3 at the Hinkley Point B nuclear power plant will cease generation for the last time. After the closure of Reactor 4 last month, this will finally bring all electricity production at the Somerset site to a halt. Although there were calls for the plant …
Hinkley Point B Closure – The End of an Error
Hinkley Point B (HPB) may be ending electricity generation on 1st August, but the UK will be left with its legacy of nuclear waste for thousands of years. Even after generating waste for 46 years, we are still not sure what will happen to it other than a vague promise …
Extending the life of Hinkley Point B a Dead Cat Story
The i newspaper is today reporting that Energy Minister Greg Hands has admitted he failed to contact EDF Energy, who operate Hinkley Point B (HPB) nuclear power station, to explore the possibility of keeping the two HPB reactors open beyond their current closure dates of 8th July and 1st August …
Many thanks to everyone who has helped so far in enabling Save the Severn to take legal action to stop radioactive mud being dumped in the Severn Estuary.
Stop Hinkley’s supporters contributions were fantastic and enabled us to start the legal process for a Judicial Review to halt EDF’s destruction of the most protected Marine Environment in the UK. The Judicial Review will take place in London on 8-10th March. By then we will need a further £50,000 …
Regarding EDF’s Proposed dredge and dumping of mud from Hinkley C Site into Cardiff Bay and Portishead
IT MUST BE RECEIVED BY 26th March IT MUST QUOTE MLA/2012/00259/6 IT MUST INCLUDE AN ADDRESS TO WHICH CORRESPONDENCE RELATING TO THE REPRESENTATION OR OBJECTION MAY BE SENT. You can use any part of Tim Deere-Jones submission. (see link above) Summarized list of points made from Tim Deere-Jones submission to …