It is estimated that 11 billion fish lives will be lost in the 60 years that Hinkley C will be operational if EDF are successful in their second attempt to shirk their commitment to fit an Acoustic Fish Deterrent (AFD). The AFD would play a significant part in protecting the …
Hinkley C nuclear reactor roof lifted into place
Hinkley C nuclear reactor roof lifted into place – BBC News Engineers have lifted a steel roof onto a building which will house the first of two nuclear reactors at Hinkley Point in Somerset. Many question whether Hinkley Point C will be worth all the money, with Roy Pumfrey of …
UK Has £10 Billion Per Nuclear Reactor Decommissioning Bottomless Pit
The decommissioning costs for the UK’s nuclear generation are coming home to roost, and they are laying golden eggs for the firms that won the business. For UK citizens, not so much. Despite the very high costs of both the new nuclear reactors at Hinkley Site C, the rapidly rising …
EDF’s proposed amendments to their 2013 Development Consent Order
We now know that these are EDF’s proposed amendments to the 2013 planning permission, to be applied for by way of a Material Change Application: Onsite elements Removal of the requirement to install an acoustic fish deterrent (AFD) system; Amendment to the Interim Spent Fuel Store from wet to dry …
Nuclear power & net zero: Too little, too late, too expensive
Report by Professor Steve Thomas, July 2023 The UK government has reaffirmed its target of building 24GW of new nuclear capacity by 2050. This would be equivalent to eight new nuclear stations in addition to the Hinkley Point C station and would be expected to provide 25% of our power by then. …
Stop Hinkley Support for Dutch Anti-nuclear Group
There is only one nuclear power station in the Netherlands, Borssele in Zeeland, a province in the rural and remote southwest of the country, across the sea from Belgium. Early in 2023, the Dutch government said it wanted to see two new reactors built to help the country towards Net …
BRISTOL CHANNEL 2022 SEDIMENT SAMPLING RESULTS
For the second year running, an independent Citizen’s Science Radioactivity Survey of Somerset and South Wales shoreline sediments proves 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 Government and the nuclear …
The Environment Agency want your comments on their proposed decision on EDF’s permit in respect of the Acoustic Fish Deterrent for Hinkley Point C.
EDF have applied to the EA to remove all references to the acoustic fish deterrent (AFD) from their permit. The AFD is essential for fish to be deterred from being sucked into the water-cooling mechanisms of the proposed Hinkley Point C. Without the AFD fish and mammals will be killed …