Jonathon Porritt, former FOE director and founder of the non-profit Forum for the Future, has slammed government proposals to guarantee a minimum price for the electricity generated by EDF Energy for the next 30-40 years, comparing it to making a £50 billion bet on the wholesale price of energy in 2050. Forum for the Future…
Readers of News 183 (January 2013) will know that following the discovery in June 2012 of serious cracks in two Belgian reactor pressure vessels of the same basic design as Sizewell B RPV, we have been demanding of our Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) that they take immediate steps to shut down Sizewell B and…
Thanks to our member, Peter Lanyon, we have made a comprehensive 3-page submission on behalf of our Campaign to the so-called ‘Suffolk Resilience Forum’ [SRF) run by the Suffolk County and Suffolk Coastal District Councils. In our submission we have pointed out the total inadequacy of the SRF’s proposal to extend the present 2.4Km. evacuation…
‘The Guardian 20th March 2013 – a letter from Professor David Elliott of the Open University saying he had been part of one of the teams invited to use the DECC extensive online energy modeling system, the results recently published as a set of 2050 energy Pathways. His team showed clearly that it was possible…
Mycle Schneider, former energy adviser to the French government, say s’the whole of the nuclear power industry in France is in big trouble’ with debts of 39billion euros- Daily Telegraph 9tt April 2013. This could well bring about a protracted delay for Hinkley because of the large amount of money needed to bring the French…
‘The new findings are sobering. In spite of significant investments into safety upgrades following the tests, many vital and known issues were not addressed. Even problems that are being dealt with will take years to be remedied -leaving European citizens exposed to these risks in the meantime. Physicist Oda Becker concludes that where national regulators…