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 …
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 …
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 …
Hinkley Point B Closure – The End of an Error
Hinkley Point B (HPB) may be ending electricity generation on 1st August, but the UK will be left with its legacy of nuclear waste for thousands of years. Even after generating waste for 46 years, we are still not sure what will happen to it other than a vague promise …
Many thanks to everyone who has helped so far in enabling Save the Severn to take legal action to stop radioactive mud being dumped in the Severn Estuary.
Stop Hinkley’s supporters contributions were fantastic and enabled us to start the legal process for a Judicial Review to halt EDF’s destruction of the most protected Marine Environment in the UK. The Judicial Review will take place in London on 8-10th March. By then we will need a further £50,000 …
EDF’s Proposed dredge and dumping of mud from Hinkley C Site into Cardiff Bay and Portishead.
Campaigners from the Stop Hinkley campaign will be meeting on 29th June at Portishead near Bristol to take mud samples from the Bristol channel for analysis by the CRIRRAD Laboratory in France to provide a base line before any possible dumping of mud from the Hinkley Point C construction site …