Councils in Cumbria had expressed an interest in developing a long-term storage plant near the Sellafield site – however members of the county council’s cabinet voted 7 -3 against pressing ahead with plans for a £12billion waste store in the west of the county. Suffolk county councillor with responsibility for planning, Guy McGregor, said the…
EDF Energy’s £14billion reactor project in Somerset faces further delays of at least two years for the European Commission to consider if the French state-backed company is being granted illegal state aid by Britain, a UK rival warned yesterday. EDF is demanding generous subsidies, funded by levies on British consumers’ bills, as well as loan…
At last the Suffolk Joint Emergency Planning Unit (SJEPU) has published – in the wake of the Japanese Fukushima nuclear plant disaster – its review of the Sizewell Emergency Arrangements in a document entitled ‘Have Your Say’. Basically this document proposes increasing the present Detailed Emergency Planning Zone (DEPZ) from its present 2.4 km to…
EDF, the promoters for the proposed Sizewell C & D European Pressurised Reactor, has now concluded its Stage 1 ‘public consultation’. Since fundamental questions such as – ‘do we need a Sizewell CT; ‘what to do with the nuclear waste finally?’; ‘safety?’ were barred, leaving the public to only express their concerns over secondary matters…
Nuclear Monitor No. 756 7th February 2013 contains a detailed report by Dr. Paul Dorfman on ‘Late Lessons from Chernobyl and Early Warnings from Fukushima.’ It is stated that ‘whereas earlier estimates assumed a probability of one major nuclear accident over a lOO-year period, reoccurrence of these events can be expected once every 20 years…
Wind power expanded by almost 20% in 2012 round the world to reach a new peak of 282 gigawatts (GW) of total installed capacity, while solar power reached more than 100GW, having more than doubled in two years. The UK is by far the world leader in offshore wind deployment, installing 0.85MW in 2012 to…