Reports
Independent Citizen’s Science Radioactivity Survey of Somerset and South Wales shoreline sediments shows 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 Tim Deere-Jones, 2021
The survey was undertaken by members of Citizens Groups from both sides of the Bristol Channel/Severn estuary because EdF, who are dredging hundreds of thousands of tonnes of radioactive mud from the site of the proposed Hinkley C reactors, have repeatedly refused to carry out pre-dumping surveys of the Cardiff Grounds and Portishead sea dump sites where they have disposed of the HPC dredge waste. The survey was carried out in the summer of 2021 prior to the proposed dump at Portishead, but three years after the dump at Cardiff Grounds..
Evidence of significant enriched uranium atomic fuel contamination of the Hinkley Point proposed nuclear site in Somerset and its potential implications
by Chris Busby & Cecily Collingridge, 2011
In this report for Green Audit, analysis is presented showing the presence of enriched uranium contamination on the site proposed for the new nuclear reactors. Examining gamma spectroscopy radioactivity data tables that formed part of the Environment Impact Statement EIS supplied by EDF Energy, it was possible to show that the 2square kilometer site contained approximately 10 tonnes of enriched uranium reactor fuel.
Cancer Mortality and Proximity to Hinkley Point Nuclear Power Station in Somerset 1995-1998
Authors: Chris Busby PhD, Paul Dorfman BSc & Helen Rowe BA. Download in three parts
Leukaemia Incidence in Somerset with Particular Reference to Hinkley Point Nuclear Power Station
Somerset Health Authority 1988: C Bowie MCRP MFCM and P D Ewings PhD
Books
Nuclear Power?
Published March 2022, Compiled by Tom Unterrainer
This Spokesman Dossier brings together articles, reports and analysis of nuclear power, its connection with nuclear weapons and public policy published over the course of fifty years.
With contributions from Malcolm Caldwell, Alan Roberts, Tony Benn, Petra Kelly, Rosalie Bertell, Christopher Gifford, Zhores Medvedev, Helen Caldicott, Hachiro Sato, Ian Fairlie, Phil Johnstone, Andy Stirling, Pete Roche and Dave Cullen.
When the world faces the prospect of climate catastrophe, nuclear power is being sold as a safe, clean and reliable alternative source of energy. As these articles reveal, no such claims are true. Nuclear power is expensive, potentially deadly and intimately linked to the development and maintenance of nuclear weapons.
The Legacy of Nuclear Power
By Andrew Blowers, Professor Emeritus in Social Sciences, Open University
Nuclear energy leaves behind an infinitely dangerous legacy of radioactive wastes in places that are remote and polluted landscapes of risk. Four of these places – Hanford (USA) where the plutonium for the first atomic bombs was made, Sellafield, where the UK’s nuclear legacy is concentrated, controversial La Hague the heart of the French nuclear industry, and Gorleben, the focal point of nuclear resistance in Germany – provide the narratives for this unique account of the legacy of nuclear power.
The Burning Answer
A User’s Guide to the Solar Revolution by Keith Barnham
Barnham answers the burning question of our age: how to supply the power our society demands while avoiding environmental catastrophe. The threat of global warming, oil depletion and nuclear disaster is ever-present. There is a growing risk of environmental damage from fracking and shale-oil extraction, deforestation and drilling for fossil fuels in sensitive environments.
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