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Portishead dumping ground is possible new destination for EDF’s Hinkley Point ‘radioactive mud’

26th January 2021

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 Hinkley Point into sites between the south Wales and the Somerset coast.

In a surprise move to the groups, EDF, which is building a new nuclear reactor at Hinkley Point, has announced that the Portishead marine disposal site LU070 is now a possible dumping ground for the seabed sediment it is seeking to dredge from Bridgwater Bay in order to sink cooling water intake and outfall tunnels for the new reactors at Hinkley Point.

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