A NUCLEAR liaison group is calling for an extension of the emergency zone around the Sizewell power station site in the wake of the Fukushima disaster in Japan. The Sizewell Stakeholder Group (SSG) – set up to improve the flow of information between the site and its neighbours – also wants consideration given to a…
The problems of radioactive waste remain insoluble, the responsibilities are appalling already. Accident and terrorism to nuclear stations could render large areas of the UK uninhabitable. 60 years of nuclear power have failed to produce an industry capable of adequately reducing risks. The cost of new nuclear would starve the development of benign renewable energy…
The IPC held a preliminary public meeting on the 21st March near Bridgewater, attended by over 300 people, into EDF’s application to construct a giant Hinkley ‘C nuclear power station (the forerunner of a similar proposed plant at Sizewell). Many expressed their opposition because of its dangers, risks and long term legacy of radioactive wastes,…
Readers of News 178, March 2012, will be aware that we wrote to the Chairs of the House of Commons’ Energy & Climate Change Committee, the Environmental Audit Committee and the Public Administration Committee asking that, in the light of the above report, Parliament re-open the debate on the so-called need for more nuclear plants.…
The Government’s plan to keep the lights on this century is in tatters after two German energy giants – EON and REWE – scrapped plans to build six new nuclear reactors, three at Wylfa in Anglesey and three in Gloucestershire -The Guardian’ 30th March.
The French Government has finally announced ambitious plans to install hundreds of giant turbines in the Channel and the Atlantic. Four contracts will lead to building 2,000 megawatts of offshore wind capacity: France has a target of meeting 23 per cent of its energy demand from renewables by 2020. The state-owned EDF has won the…