You are viewing our archive site, for the latest news and information, visit our Main Site.

STOP HINKLEY PRESS RELEASES
08 Oct 2020: 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. More >>>
29 Sept 2020: 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. More >>>
7 July 2020: Anti-Nuclear Groups Angry about Regulators lack of response to silo damage at Hinkley Point C – worried 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 that this represents a wider lack of control of the nuclear industry by the Office for Nuclear Regulation. More >>> [read letter Here] [See picture Here]
25 Mar 2020: 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. More >>>
10 Mar 2020: 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. More >>>
10 Feb 2020: EDF Energy wants to dredge another 780,000 tonnes of contaminated sediment and dump it off the coast of Cardiff: EdeF Energy applied for and received permission to dredge 300,000 tons of radioactively contaminated sediment from Bridgwater Bay and dump it off Cardiff. The sediment contains everything that has come out of the outflow pipes over the last 50 years from the Hinkley Point nuclear power stations. More >>>
17 Jan 2020: EDF should stop building Hinkley Point C now before its financial quagmire gets even worse: The poor state of EDF's finances is threatening to leave UK and French taxpayers and electricity consumers with a huge bill if construction of Hinkley Point C is not stopped as soon as possible. More >>>
Older Press Releases are archived under different topics
Nuclear New Build (Hinkley C)
  Nuclear Safety and Public Health
  Hinkley A
  Hinkley B
  Oldbury
  Decommissioning and Waste Management
  Alternative Energy, incl. Hinkley Wind Farm
  General Nuclear related topics
Stop Hinkley Logo