8 August 2014
Moorside Thirty-three consultation sessions will be held this autumn on the route of high-voltage power lines to carry electricity from a new nuclear power station near Sellafield. The first will take...
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Bradwell Representatives of the Blackwater Against New Nuclear Group (BANNG) attended a meeting with the Environment Agency (EA) on 5 August.As agreed unanimously at its Public Meeting on 23 June at...
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SMRs Helen Caldicott: Now that the “nuclear renaissance” is dead following the Fukushima catastrophe, when one sixth of the world’s nuclear reactors closed, the nuclear corporations — Toshiba,...
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Horizon Hundreds of new jobs could be created in Gloucestershire after Horizon Nuclear Power was granted planning permission for new headquarters at Gloucester Business Park. The Hitachi-owned firm...
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Hartlepool/Heysham Two reactors at EDF Energy’s Hartlepool site in the North East have been shut down after a defect was found in one reactor at a sister site in Lancashire earlier this year. A third...
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Cumbria A new sister website to no2nuclearpower, operated jointly with West Cumbria and North Lakes Friends of the Earth, called Cumbrian Energy Revolution covering developments at Sellafield, but also...
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Hunterston/Radwaste The Labour Group on NAC (North Ayrshire Council) has raised concerns about the safety of road transport if radioactive waste is moved between Hunterson and Torness. Following...
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Nuclear Subsidies This memorandum looks at the background of State aid and considers the possible options open to potential investors in the UK nuclear industry to maximize the likelihood of a positive...
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Hinkley EDF Energy has confirmed that Hinkley Point nuclear power station will not be shut down following the temporary closure of two of the company’s other nuclear power plants in the UK. Heysham 1...
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Moorside A petition has been set up to STOP MOORSIDE, described by the industry as “the biggest nuclear development in Europe” Despite having no solution to the problem of nuclear waste our government...
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New Nukes Manufacturers have called for the creation of an independent authority to address Britain’s “most pressing” infrastructure challenges, putting an end to the political hurdles that delay the...
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Radhealth Radiation doses used in CT hospital scanners to diagnose injuries and diseases should be reduced to the lowest possible level, to avoid potential harm, a government advisory body has warned....
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Sellafield Anti-nuclear group urges call-in for Carlisle Airport expansion. Carlisle Airport appears to be registered to carry radioactive freight over a populated area and in the near vicinity of...
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Dounreay MORE highly radioactive material than previously thought has been discovered stuck in the core of Dounreay’s famous domed reactor, its operators have revealed. One of the world’s leading...
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Dungeness Britain’s Dungeness B22 nuclear power reactor has gone offline in an unplanned outage, operator EDF Energy said on Friday. The 550-megawatt (MW) unit went offline at 01:18 AM BST on...
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Heysham Mo Kelly: As a resident living within six miles of Heysham 1 and 2, I am profoundly concerned about the decisions being taken by EDF to insist upon the continued extended operation of...
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Bradwell CHINA’S nuclear power giants are in early talks about building an atomic reactor on the Essex coast at Bradwell. The site, home to a partly decommissioned Magnox power plant, has emerged as...
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Bradwell Chinese nuclear power giants are reportedly zoning in on Bradwell as the site for a new atomic plant. The Sunday Times reports today that the area on the Dengie coast, currently home to the...
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Nuclear Industry The World Nuclear Industry Status Report provides an account of an industry in decline, writes Jonathon Porritt – with rising operating costs and an ever-shrinking share of world...
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New Nukes On the face of it, the UK government’s obsession with nuclear power defies reason. It’s very expensive, inflexible, creates ‘existential’ threats and imposes enormous ‘long tail’ liabilities...
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