The above EADT report is of the Sizewell Stakeholder Group meeting on 5th December 2013,when your Chairman made yet another impassioned appeal for the ONR to insist that EDF, the operators of Sizewell B, carry out tests on the safety of the Sizewell B reactor pressure vessel, following flaws found in two Belgian and two…
A senior official for the UK nuclear safety agency told a local watchdog group that in a review of the zone efforts were being made to avoid “bisecting’ any community. The current off-site emergency zone – for which detailed plans to protect the public have to be drawn up – extends across a radius of…
This review has been occasioned because Cumbria County Council democratically turned down the Government’s original invitation to accept a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF): no other County Council in the UK has entertained such a development. As ever, the Department of Environment and Climate Change (DECC) has sought to circumvent this refusal by altering the teims…
The European Commission is close to concluding that Britain’s nuclear programme at Hinkley Point breaches EU state aid rules and may have to be revised, a move that could lead to long delays and even cause the complex deal to unravel. The EU competition police are examining a string of subsidies tied to the Government’s…
An Taisce [described as the Irish equivalent of UKs National Trust) is seeking a judicial review of the legality of the UK’s Government decision to permit the building of Hinkley C. It says the UK Government has failed to consult the Irish public, as required by the EU’s Environmental Impact Assessment directive and the UK’s…
Workers have begun the delicate task of removing fuel rods from a storage pool at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant more than 2½ years after the factory suffered a triple meltdown after being hit by a powerful earthquake and tsunami. Some experts have warned that a collision involving the fuel assemblies, a sudden loss…