Major reactor accidents of nuclear power plants are rare, yet the consequences are catastrophic. But what is meant by “rare”? The results of a new study indicate that previously the occurrence of INES 7 major accidents and the risks of radioactive contamination have been underestimated. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz…
SIZEWELL: Anti-nuclear campaigners are refused membership By David Green A COMMUNITY liaison group has been accused of being “undemocratic” after it refused to allow an anti-nuclear group to become a member. The Sizewell Stakeholder Group (SSG) – set up to improve the flow of information between the nuclear site and the local community –…
‘By 2020, the U.K. Government is calling for 18,000 megawatts of installed offshore wind capacity, contributing around 55 terrawatt-hours of electricity and creating some 70,000 permanent jobs/ – Renewable U.K. 30th May, 2012. (But this goal will not be achieved unless the Government gives the financial and planning support necessary, rather than prop up the…
EDF strategy is to seek life extensions for all its existing nuclear power stations, i.e. beyond their designed lives: an additional 7 years for their eight Advanced Gas Cooled Reactors and a further 20 years for Sizewell……….It is to be hoped (forlornly?] that our so-called safety watchdog, the Office for Nuclear Regulation, will act to…
At our well attended AGM, the Treasurer reported a considerable loss during the past year because of increased postal charges. However, thanks to generous donations, we start the new financial year with a current bank balance of £731, (but see below]. The Chairman gave a resume of all the excellent work we have done in…
Fifteen months after 19,000 people were killed and 347,000 permanently displaced by the earthquake, tsunami and subsequent meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear facility, Yoshihiko Noda, the Prime Minister, ordered the restart of two nuclear reactors in the town of Oi, in western Japan . It was, he said, an attempt to protect the country’s fragile…