This, Our Letter, Was Published By The East Anglian Daily Times On 20th March 2015 Your report ‘Cracks generate Sizewell concern’ (EADT 9th March) of the Sizewell Stakeholder Group (SSG) meeting 5th March by reporter David Green was, as usual, even handed. However, it is necessary that I should, as Chairman of the Shut Down…

Secretary of State given power to decide on sites. Change rushed through in the final hours of parliament. ‘Nuclear waste dumps could be imposed on communities without their support under a new law rushed through in the final hours of parliament. Under the latest rules, the long search for a place to store Britain’s stockpile…

Readers of News 195 (January 2015) will know of our concerns about the outdated measures in force to warn the public of, and protect them from, an emergency at Sizewell, and also that the Office for Nuclear Regulation had signed up in 2014 to new and far-reaching European provisions in the HERCA/WENRA approach to nuclear…

‘Up to 400 workers at the site of the new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point face being laid off while the owners decide how much more to invest in the £16bn project. The French company EDF Energy has almost completed the preparatory earthworks, drainage, support facilities and roadworks on the multibillion-pound project in Somerset…

‘France, the country that derives the most electricity from nuclear power, is turning its back on the atom. It’s capping generation at current levels, and will then reduce its contribution from 75% to 50% by 2025. Meanwhile, it will more than double what it generates from renewables to 32% by 2030.’ [U.K. please note—Ed.] From…

The chief of the Fukushima nuclear power station has admitted that the technology needed to decommission three melted-down reactors does not exist, and he has no idea how it will he developed. in a stark reminder of the challenge facing the Japanese authorities, Akira Ono conceded that the stated goal of decommissioning the plant by…