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…
Officials at EDF Energy say they are still analysing feedback from the Stage Two consultation process for Sizewell C and have a “huge amount” of work to do before they embark on presenting final plans for the £14bn project [Stage 3). Mr. John McNamara for EDF said “we will hold a community forum and circulate…
Every day for some six years 300 — 400 tonnes of water have washed through the remains of the four nuclear reactors destroyed during the Fukushima nuclear disaster of March 2011. Some of the water is groundwater that scientists have failed to prevent running through the site, but a lot of it (300 tonnes at…
It might seem strange for us to focus on Hinkley Point in Somerset for our front page story, but what happens at Hinkley will almost certainly have a direct impact on what happens at the nuclear power station at Sizewell in Suffolk in the years to come. This Campaign has always maintained that a new…
Our colleague on the ‘Shut Down Sizewell Campaign’, Peter Lanyon, has been doggedly lobbying ministers for several years to recognise the higher nuclear safety standards in Europe, as detailed in the ‘Herca-Wenra’ strategy for better cross border co-ordination. Following further correspondence this year between the Campaign Chairman, Charles Barnett, and the ‘Department of Business, Energy…