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10 July 2020: EDF boss suppressed report calling Hinkley Point 'risky': The chief executive won boardroom approval for the project after suppressing an internal review labelling it as risk-laden. More >>>
8 July 2020: Stop Hinkley Point campaigners call for probe into silo damage and ‘dust cloud’: Members of The Stop Hinkley campaign organisation and other anti-nuclear groups have this week written to the UK’s nuclear regulator over its lack of a response to a recent incident at the Hinkley Point C construction site in which a silo was damaged. More >>>
30 June 2020: Plan for radioactive mud dump worrying: EDF are proposing to have a large radioactive mud dump on Wales! More >>>
10 June 2020: Hinkley Point C: Dust cloud released as nuclear site silo damaged: A tower at the Hinkley Point C nuclear reactor site has been damaged, releasing a dust cloud in the area. More >>>
04 Jun 2020: Steam rolling ahead with outdated 'new' nuclear: With lockdown, HPC is allowing long distance travelling for workers and ignoring social distancing. More >>>
02 Jun 2020: Nuclear is a waste of money and time: While everyone has been dealing with Covid-19 and the huge restrictions that have impacted on most of our lives, the Government has been steam rolling ahead with outdated 'new' nuclear. More >>>
March 2020: Surely Hinkley C work is not essential?: What part of this Hinkley Point C nuclear building site is so essential that it's putting lives at risk? More >>>
26 Oct 2019: Hinkley Point B nuclear power station safety zone reviewed: People close to Hinkley Point B in Somerset are being asked whether the emergency planning zone round the nuclear plant should be altered. More >>>
09 Oct 2019: Hinkley Point C: The problems facing nuclear projects: In 2012 EDF estimated the cost to build Hinkley as £12bn, way above the government's 2008 estimate of £4bn. This grew incrementally to the most recent announcement that costs will now be £21.5bn-£22.5bn. More >>>
06 Oct 2019: Inside Fukushima as people evacuated from radioactive ghost town begin their return: The Daily Mirror's Special Correspondent Tom Parry and photographer Andy Stenning got rare access inside Japan's highly radioactive Fukushima nuclear plant eight years after a tsunami triggered catastrophic meltdowns. More >>>
25 Sep 2019: Hinkley nuclear power station costs increase by up to £3 billion: French energy giant EDF said the plant in Somerset will now cost between £21.5 billion and £22.5 billion. More >>>
05 Sep 2019: Bid to bring nuclear waste through Bridgwater to Hinkley rejected: Bridgwater councillors were joined by Bridgwater & District Civic Society spokesman to present a case to SCC saying allowing the move would set a dangerous precedent of waste being brought in to the Hinkley site. More >>>
29 Nov 2018: New delay in start-up of Finnish EPR: Last month, the plant's supplier - the Areva-Siemens consortium - announced it wanted to update the schedule for completing the unit as commissioning tests were taking longer than planned. More >>>
21 Nov 2018: Getting customers to pay for new nuclear upfront: EDF is pushing a plan to finance nuclear investment in Britain. But the mechanism has never been tried for a project as technically complicated and lengthy as a nuclear power station. More >>>
21 Nov 2018: Closure urged after 350 cracks found in nuclear reactor: More than 350 cracks have been discovered in an ageing nuclear power reactor at Hunterston in North Ayrshire. More >>>
18 Nov 2018: The real cost of nuclear and why it is so expensive: How much does a nuclear plant cost? Take Britain's Hinkley Point in Somerset, currently under construction with a completion date pencilled in for some time in the late 2020s. More >>>
08 Nov 2018: Toshiba's UK withdrawal puts Cumbria nuclear plant in doubt: Toshiba plans to wind up its UK nuclear business after failing to find a buyer, dealing a potentially fatal blow to plans for a new nuclear power station in Cumbria. More >>>
20 Aug 2018: Majority of UK public want to install solar panels, poll finds: More than half of the British public would install solar panels and home batteries to tackle climate change if there was greater assistance from the government, polling has found. More >>>
19 Aug 2018: Water at Fukushima nuclear plant still radioactive even after treatment: Government wants to dump the contaminated water into the sea, but locals and fishermen oppose the idea. More >>>

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Nuclear option is a huge over-reaction
The Times, 21 Aug 2015
Predicting future energy prices can be tricky, as anyone foxed by sub-$50 oil might testify — ie just about everyone. So, how nice to come across a bunch of people who know exactly where prices will be for the next 45 years.
Who they? None other than the British government, an institution itching for October when it can give away billions of pounds we don’t have to France and China. That’s when David Cameron plans to sign up to Hinkley Point C, the first new nuclear power station for a generation, and yours for a snip at £24.5 billion. More >>>


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