Pete Wilkinson, co-founder and first director of Greenpeace UK, was a valued member of anti nuclear NGO groups and was fighting the campaign against Sizewell C. During his life he campaigned on many key environmental issues. His concerns about nuclear waste led to actions stretched from stopping Sellafield waste being …
What hasn’t been mentioned with all this bigging up the Hinkley site is that it will be the big Sellafield waste dump of the south
Letter published in the Western Daily Press, Western Morning News, Bridgwater Mercury and West Somerset Free Press. Dear Editor In response to your Hinkley article around all the jobs created at Hinkley C, yes of course it is good that the nuclear industry is training people to understand the nuclear …
Azerbaijani NGOs address letter to Nuclear Energy Summit leadership regarding Metsamor
Azerbaijani civil society representatives sent an open letter to the co-chairs of the Nuclear Energy Summit, which started in Brussels today. According to Azernews, in the letter, they urged the leadership of the Nuclear Energy Summit to pay attention to the global threat posed by the Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant, …
The Guardian Revealed: Sellafield nuclear site has leak that could pose risk to public
Safety concerns at Europe’s most hazardous plant have caused diplomatic tensions with US, Norway and Ireland ‘Dirty 30’ and its toxic siblings: the most dangerous parts of the Sellafield site Sellafield hacked by groups linked to Russia and China Sellafield, Europe’s most hazardous nuclear site, has a worsening leak from …
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 …
IS IT SAFE TO SWIM IN THE SEVERN ESTUARY AND CLEVEDON MARINE LAKE?
This is a question that was raised by someone using the lake. Here is our reply. We have taken samples from various locations along the North Somerset coastline and had them independently tested for various radioactive isotopes. Bristol Channel sediment analyses 2021 TDJ (stophinkley.org) Also see our accompanying press release …
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 …
Taking up Hilda’s Torch: Robert Green’s account of his contribution to the 1988/9 Hinkley C Inquiry.
This is an interesting insight both into the Inquiry and the background to nuclear power in the UK. The information and comments are as relevant today as they were all those years ago. TakingUpHildasTorch Hilda Murrell (born in 1906) was a British rose grower, naturalist, diarist and campaigner against nuclear …