SHUT DOWN SIZEWELL CAMPAIGN

SIZEWELL 'A' COOLING POND LEAK—AN UPDATE

Readers of News 159 (January 2009) will know of the pipe failure at Sizewell 'A' powerplant which led to some 30,000 gallons of radio-active water escaping into the North Sea in January 2007

Both Government Regulators-the Environment Agency and the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate, have decide not to prosecute Magnox South, the station's operator for this flagrant breach of the

operator's statuary obligations. We, the Campaign, after receiving unsatisfactory explanations from both the EA and the NII fortheir dismal failure to prosecute Magnox South, have instructed Large and Associates, independent

nuclear consulting engineers, on how to proceed. In our view, the Sizewell Stakeholder Group should have taken the action that we have... .but what else is to be expected from this, largely, rubber-stamping nuclearphile body?

INCREASED INCIDENTS OF CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA’S NEAR NUCLEAR STATIONS

We, together with others, have pressed the Sizewell Stakeholders Group to hold a public meeting to debate the German KiKK study of the increased incidence of childhood cancers around nuclear

power stations, as it relates to stations in the UK, especially Sizewell. The SSG sub-group have, apparently agreed to hold such a meeting at Saxmundham in June (this is subject to ratification by the whole SSG).

WE CAN'T CHECK EVERYTHING, ADMITS ATOMIC SAFETY CHIEF AFTER 14 YEAR LEAK

The most senior figure in nuclear safety has defended the regulation of an atomic power station barely fifty miles from the centre of London, which leaked for 14 years. Mike Weightman, chief inspector at the Nuclear

Installations Inspectorate, said it was not possible to "inspect or check every feature of a complex plant". But as soon as the leak in the sump of one of the Magnox reactors at Bradwell-on-Sea was discovered, the safety

body did all it could to ensure that the cause of the problem was identified and dealt with, he added. Mark Harris, prosecuting on behalf of the Environment Agency, told a jury at Chelmsford Crown Court that

leaks were caused by poor design and continued due to a lack of checks and maintenance, from as long ago as 1990-from the Guardian, 2 February 2009

(Magnox Electric Ltd, the operator concerned was subsequently fined, together with costs, a sum

amounting to £400,000—payable, of course, by us the taxpayers—Ed)

DIARY

Thursday 19 March, 8pm. Monthly meeting of the Campaign. Open to all opposed to nuclear power in general and to Sizewell A, B and C in particular. At 'Tiffany', 3 Wentworth Road, Aldeburgh

Saturday 28 March, 10 am to 12 noon. Coffee morning at Leiston Community centre, St.

Georges Avenue, (next to Fire Station) organised by, and in support of, CANE (Communities

Against Nuclear Expansion). Information, Bring and Buy and bric-a-brac stalls. Your questions welcomed! Open to all of whatever persuasion.

Thursday 16 April 8pm. Monthly meeting of the Campaign. As above

Thursday 21 May 8pm. Monthly meeting of the Campaign. As above

STOP PRESS

In order to counter the pernicious propaganda increasingly put out by the nuclear industry in

our schools and elsewhere, we are again able to supply an anti-nuclear speaker. Ring 01728

648300, if you need one

How much more do we need to know before we have the sense

To close them all down and not build any more?

'And who would run, that's moderately wise,

A certain danger for a doubtful prize?'

Rev. John Pomfret (1667-1702)

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