The Taishan Nuclear Power Plant in Guangdong province, China has two operational EPR reactors – the same type as being built at Hinkley Point C. The first entered commercial service in December 2018 and the second in September 2019. Delays at other EPR construction sites at Olkiluoto in Finland, Flamanville …
Hinkley Point C: Silo Collapse Report Raises More Questions
EDF Energy has published its report on the Ground Granulated Blast-furnace Slag (GGBS) silo collapse which took place on the Hinkley Point C construction site on 10th June last year.
Portishead dumping ground is possible new destination for EDF’s Hinkley Point ‘radioactive mud’
NFLA joint media release with Stop Hinkley and the Geiger Bay campaign. The UK & Ireland Nuclear Free Local Authorities (NFLA), the ‘Stop Hinkley’ campaign and the ‘Geiger Bay’ campaign have been involved in raising concerns over the dumping of large amounts of dredged materials from the EDF site at …
EDF’s Hinkley C Nuclear Power Station will be wiping out fish stocks in Severn Estuary for 60 years
The Stop Hinkley Campaign is accusing EDFGenco, the French and Chinese owned Company building Hinkley Point C, of trying to bully the UK Environment Agency into allowing them to destroy environmentally precious fish stocks for the 60 year lifetime of the nuclear power station.
Gambling with Public Safety at Hinkley Point B
EDF Energy has just announced that it intends to submit new safety cases to the Office for Nuclear Regulation to re-open Reactors 3 and 4 at Hinkley Point B.
Anti-Nuclear Groups Angry about Regulators lack of response to silo damage at Hinkley Point C
There are worries that it indicates a wider lack of control over nuclear company. Stop Hinkley and other anti-nuclear groups have written an angry letter to the nuclear regulator over its lack of a response to a recent ‘dramatic’ incident at the Hinkley Point C construction site and expressing concern …
EDF’s Dire Financial Circumstances Forcing Them to put Lives at Risk: Why isn’t the Government telling them to stop?
The Stop Hinkley Campaign today expressed its horror that the 4,000-strong workforce at the Hinkley Point C construction site is set to continue working during the Coronavirus Lockdown.
Coastal Nuclear Sites Unviable Given Increased Risk of Flooding and Storm Surges. Remember Fukushima 11th March 2011
A meeting between representatives of groups opposing new nuclear development, the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) the independent nuclear safety regulator and the Environment Agency discussed how the ONR regulates against external hazards.