… in which to transform our entire culture, including our energy systems, our buildings and our transport, if we are to retain anything of a viable climate. Yet the Sizewell C consultation that started this month wants instead to build a huge 20th century energy system, using unsustainable transport on inadequate roads. All of this…

A uranium mine in Namibia. The dots on the winding tracks are huge trucks with wheels twice the height of a man. Mining is only the first of many steps to provide just one of the thousands of different raw materials for Sizewell C (SZC). All won, processed, transported and assembled without a puff of…

The safe and efficient evacuation of the community is a key element of emergency planning. The rural, coastal location of Sizewell creates huge problems in relation to safely evacuating thousands of residents, employees and school children. We believe that the current plan lacks integrity in stating that a full evacuation would be achievable, and we…

Unlike the lack of unanimity about the carbon cost of nuclear, sea level behaviour seems clear. Each time scientists pronounce on it, the expected rise is higher and quicker. EDF Energy acknowledges that new defences are needed at Sizewell according to a ‘reasonably foreseeable climate change up to 2110’, by which time, so they say,…

In the early days of the Campaign Charles Barnett, editorial green eyeshade on, gave us this treasure: Research consultant Dr David Lowry sent us this for Christmas:- Forty years ago at the Windscale Inquiry, critics argued THORP was dangerous and would be a failure; time has proved them right. Twenty years ago critics made the…

The Campaign is grateful to Luke Webster of the Mark Allen Group, publishers of Eureka! Magazine, for permission to quote from an article about a novel tool to dismantle highly radioactive parts inside reactors. “The ability of the LaserSnake to carry out ‘Keyhole Surgery’ on the reactor core meant that the work could be carried…