Readers of News 192 July 2014, will be aware that we wrote to the Chief Inspector of the Office of Nuclear Regulation asking him to revisit the ONR’s revised proposals in the light of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Guidance which is based on ‘consideration of an extreme accident‘ ( and not merely a ‘reasonably…
‘Communities are to be paid millions of pounds just for considering whether to host an underground nuclear waste dump in their area, with no strings attached…. Revised rules by DECC would allow any tier of local government to decide to participate.’ From The Times 25h July,2014 (This would sidestep Cumbria County Council’s refusal to permit…
The owners of Britain’s ageing nuclear power stations discovered a safety problem with a reactor last year but waited nine months before shutting down similar reactors to check if they had the same defect. EDF Energy, the French state-controlled company, said yesterday that it had shut down four reactors, a quarter of its nuclear generating…
A dossier setting out the case against building the Sizewell C nuclear power plant has been sent to the local authority “task force” examining plans for the £14 billion project. The 20-page document has been compiled by the Together Against Sizewell C consortium, (which we support), which is spearheading the campaign to halt EDF Energy’s…
Ms Ségolène Royal, French Cabinet Minister, promises to reduce the share of atomic energy in French electricity production from 75% to 50%, with an increase in renewable energy to 32% in 2030, compared with 73.7% today. She also plans to increase wind power from 5,000 megawatts to 25,000 megawatts by 2020.’ From The Times 37*…
Highly radioactive spent fuel rods from the Sizewell B reactor could be stored on site well into the next century and possibly forever; members of a watchdog group fear. A special meeting of the Sizewell Stakeholder Group heard that even if a Geological Disposal Facility is built – and no site has yet been identified…