Plans by EDF to build new nuclear reactors in Britain came under fresh scrutiny after it admitted finding serious quality control failings that could affect the safety of a prototype project in France. The French state-controlled energy group, which is leading construction of the Hinkley Point C plant in Somerset, said that defects in the…
This document can be downloaded here. SHUT DOWN SIZEWELL CAMPAIGN Tudor House, St James Street, Dunwich, Suffolk, IP17 3DU 01728 648300 www.shutdown-sizewell.or.uk email: info@shutdown-sizewell.org.uk This submission is from the Shut Down Sizewell Campaign, a properly constituted organisation founded in 1984 to combat the pernicious threat of nuclear power stations on the beautiful and eroding coast…
The view shown is of the nuclear island for Hinkley C’s twin European Pressurised Reactors (EPRs) as will be the case of Sizewell C’s two EPRs (if built). Sizewell C’s twin EPRs are scheduled to be constructed on land of very great environmental value: It is in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and…
If the country needs more electricity (and that is in doubt) we should harness nature’s bounty, namely: the benign non-polluting renewables – WIND (especially offshore, cheaper than nuclear), WAVE, TIDAL; SOLAR coupled with RNENGY CONSERVATION AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY. WE SAY: NO to nuclear YES to renewables
Britain accounted for more than half of the offshore wind power capacity built in Europe last year, as the sector broke installation records across the continent. The generators in the North Sea and other European waters are getting bigger in every sense. The average capacity of the SOO-plus turbines connected to the grid was up…
The Government has just published its 897page consultation document on its proposed GDF with 3 months to respond. In essence, the Government is in favour of deep excavated repository (s) to house the UK’s radioactive wastes with a permanent backfill and seal. The Government is seeking offers of a suitable site We will examine the…
The operating company, Tepco has now surrounded the four reactor buildings with an ‘ice wall’ composed of vertical pipes which freeze the soil around them to create a barrier. This is to reduce the 400 tons per day of groundwater which has been flowing through the site, entering the basements of the reactor buildings and…
Kashiwazaki-Kariwa gets consent to turn on reactors. Japanese authorities have ruled that reactors at the world’s biggest nuclear power plant were safe to restart, in a boost for the industry and the troubled Tepco nuclear operator, almost seven years after the disaster at Fukushima. The nuclear regulation authority gave its formal approval for Tokyo Electric…
“Public subsidies in connection with the international effort to combat climate change are first and foremost meant to support the just transition of the energy system towards energy savings and renewables in countries of the Global South that are most impacted by the effects of global warming (mitigation). They are also needed to help these…
China’s state—backed nuclear company is hoping to take an equity stake in the troubled £10bn Moorside nuclear plant being developed by debt—hit Toshiba in Cumbria. The Japanese conglomerate is on the hunt for a project partner to safeguard Europe’s largest planned new nuclear plant after France’s multinational electric utility company (Engie) pulled out of the…