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 dumped at sea to putting himself in key positions to ask about the nuclear waste problems today.
To remember Pete the Stop Sizewell campaign decided to highlight the ridiculous siting of a nuclear reactor being positioned on an eroding beach and the subsequent radioactive waste issue. So Stop Hinkley representatives Jo, Allan and Ian travelled to Suffolk to join the event. They took 21 radwaste barrels to arrange on the Sizewell beach to highlight how vulnerable radioactive waste will be when the sea level, beach level and reactor level are visually in line.
EDF have talked about 14m seawalls. Remember, that is not 14m off the gravel beach, it is 14 meters above a point on the coast in Cornwall which has to be extrapolated across to all the coastlines individually. Also, for a wall to be effective, it has to be buried many meters beneath the beach surface, so the visible height above the beach will be much smaller. The ineffective height of a sea wall can be seen at Hinkley where the storm surges and eroding coastline, like Sizewell, will leave radioactive waste vulnerable to the elements and subsequently a countrywide risk.
Obituary: remembering the co-founder of Greenpeace UK – https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/pete-wilkinson-obituary/
