Readers over the last 18 months will be aware of our concerns about the integrity of the Sizewell B reactor pressure vessel in the light of weaknesses found in two similar plants in Belgium, namely Doel 3 and Tihange 2. A recent press release from the Belgian safety regulator (FANC) reveals that both reactors have…
Apropos of the above report your Chairman wrote to the East Anglian Daily Times fletter published L Sth March 2014): “I wish to comment on your account [March 8) of the public meeting in Leiston (March 5) headed ‘Reassurance given over the safety of nuclear reactor pressure vessel at Sizewell B’ addressed by two senior…
1) AN TAISCE – the National Trust for Ireland has successfully obtained leave to take its Hinkley Point C legal challenge to the Court of Appeal in London, The case is likely to be heard before the end of summer. An Taisce argues that the UK government’s decision to approve Hinkley Point C nuclear plant…
The energy giant EDF has been accused of playing down the threat of flooding at Dungeness after it emerged that one of the nuclear power plant’s reactors was quietly shut down for five months last year after experts identified risk of a Fukushima-style-disaster. EDF closed this reactor on the Kent coast on 22 May to…
A former nuclear industry safety officer has written a novel based on his fears that it would become easier for terrorists to cripple the UK if the Government gives the go-ahead to big infrastructure projects such as Sizewell C.-Barrie Skelcher was head of the health physics department at Sizewell A during the 1960s and 70s…
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in its latest report urges the abandonment of all dirty fossil fuels and their replacement by renewable sources of energy – viz: wind, wave, tidal, solar, biomass, if the world is to avoid a cataclysmic overheating of the planet. To this end it is salutary to reflect on the…
The Japanese government is to restart the nation’s ageing 48 nuclear power plants a hugely controversial move after the disaster – at Fukushima (Lucy Alexander writes). Defying public opinion, the ruling Liberal Democratic party of Shinzo Abe has put through parliament a new energy plan that describes the plants as “an important base load power…