the company at the centre of Japan’s worst nuclear crisis acknowledged yesterday for the just time that it could have avoided the disaster that crippled the Fukushima Daiichi power plant last year. In a reversal of its insistence that nothing could have protected the plant against the earthquake and tsunami that lulled almost 20,000 people…
The Low Level Radiation Campaign (www.llre.org), which we support, is part of a new initiative which seeks to employ Human Rights legislation to challenge nuclear pollution, Together with Nuclear Justice (www.nucleariustice.org) they have started a petition to the European Parliament asking for a re-evaluation of the justification of all current practices involving exposure to internal…
Due to the dramatically increasing projected costs of building new nuclear plants (post Fukushima), private investor support has largely vanished, leaving only EDF in the held to perhaps construct a twin EPR plant at, firstly, Hinkley, Somerset and then, possibly, Sizewell, Suffolk The huge cost of about £ 14 billion to construct a twin EPR,…
Readers of our News 181 (September 2012) will know that, despite an undergoing given locally last April at a public meeting by the Office of Nuclear Regulation (the ONR) to respond quickly to the public’s voiced grave concerns about the total inadequacy of the current emergency plans, nothing has happened. There will be yet another…
EDF has distributed locally glossy propaganda falsely inferring that, since Fukushima nuclear plant is in the technical state of ‘cold shut-down’, all is now well, but US nuclear experts fear a fire will break out in reactor 4’s watencooled spent fuel pond if it boils dry, with a catastrophic release of radioactivity..a….. from The Japan…