The Stop Hinkley Campaign has reacted to the news that the cost of Hinkley Point C has ballooned to £46bn and that the first reactor may not now be open until 2031. Stop Hinkley Spokesperson Roy Pumfrey said: “The Government will have known for days if not weeks that this …
Hinkley Point C have announced their consultation process on their second attempt to remove fish protection measures.
They are again trying to vary the condition in the DCO and remove the AFDs from the HPC cooling water intake system. They are once more tying up Environment Agency (EA) resources with a new consultation, to go over exactly the same ground that has already been covered in the …
Nuclear Roadmap is Pure Fantasy
The Stop Hinkley Campaign has described the Government’s so-called Nuclear Roadmap as “pure fantasy”. The Roadmap majors on plans to explore the possibility of building another large-scale power plant as big as Hinkley Point C. Anglesey and Cumbria are suggested as possible sites. But these sites were designated twelve and …
There are four of these giant cooling water intake heads on the entrances to the 3km long tunnels built under the sea bed of the Severn Estuary.
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. …