This April, at a well-attended public meeting at the Sizewell Sports and Social Club, the Office of Nuclear Regulation, headed by Colin Pratchett, deputy Director ONR, promised a second meeting in July to responded the public’s expressed grave concerns about the total inadequacy of the current evacuation plans in the event (of a nuclear disaster…

Misplaced deference and other engrained conventions” of Japanese culture were at the heart of last year’s meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant according to the chairman of an independent panel whose scathing report, released yesterday described the accident as a “profoundly man-made disaster”. In his combative preface to the report Kiyoshi Kurokawa a medical…

The public is desperately ill-served” by official information about nuclear energy risks, with safety warnings often limited to reassuring propaganda, a parliamentary report states. MPs found that there is a lack of co-ordinatien across government over informing the public of the potential hazards posed by nuclear power. from The Times, 9th July 2012

Congratulations to the energy editor of the Times Tim Webb. ill: it is who has finally wormed out of Electricity de France what they believe will be the cost per megawatt hour of electricity from the first nuclear power station at Hinkley Point in Somerset The answer is a staggering £165 per Mwh. This is…

Following the disaster at Fukushima, the French Safety Authority (ASN) have decreed in a 524 page report that EDF must, by 2016 enhance the safety at all of its 58 French reactors at an estimated cost of about 10 billion euros …….. But even then “no-one can ever guarantee that a nuclear accident will never…