Nuclear New Build
 
Helping locals understand nuclear plans

THE key areas to be affected by the proposed building of a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point are being offered extra support. The Sedgemoor and West Somerset district councils' aim is to help communities understand EDF's second stage proposals for the new power station.

August 11

Bridgwater, The Exchange, Committee Room, TA6 4RR
August 17

Bridgwater, Sydenham Community Centre, TA6 4QZ
August 18
North Petherton Community Hall, TA6 6QA
August 19

Otterhampton Village Hall, TA5 2QS
August 26

Burnham-on-Sea, the Princess Hall, TA8 1EH
 

The consultation period for EDF Energy's second stage proposals will close on Monday, October 4.

EDF Consultation
EDF Consultation:
To find out more about their 'Preferred Proposals Consultation' and discuss them with members of their project team, go along to their public exhibition:
Tues 20 July - Mon 4 October (weekdays only) 9am - 5pm EDF Energy office, 14 King Square,
Bridgwater TA6 3DG
Once the second stage of consultation has closed on 4 October, EDF Energy will review all the comments received before finalising and submitting a planning applicaion to the Infrastructure Planning Commission this coming winter. See www.edfconsultation.info
Environment Agency Consultation
Nuclear New Build proposals in England and Wales - Hinkley Point: The Environment Agency are holding a consultation until 18th October and would like people to comment. They will consider the comments received before reaching a final decision on the acceptability of the two designs. More info >>
Draft letter to the SSECC
With the new opportunities brought about by a change in Government, we urge people to write to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. We hope he sticks to his pledge not to subsidise the nuclear industry and bring on the public inquiry on nuclear justification which top academics have called for. Here is a draft letter that you can download and use unchanged or add your own words.
Economics & Carbon Saving
The Local Impacts of Hinkley C
The Local Impacts.
Hinkley C will turn part of Somerset into a giant industrial site.
Click here for: The Right to Know. Oldbury Nuclear Expansion and Your Safety
April 2010: The Right to Know. Oldbury Nuclear Expansion and Your Safety - the risks to the people of Gloucestershire. A report by Gaian Economics, commissioned by Martin Whiteside, Green Party Parliamentary Candidate for Stroud.
USA Enters Stiff International Competition for Next Chernobyl Explosion

USA Enters Stiff International Competition for Next Chernobyl Explosion: The story begins with the nation that gave us the Statue of Liberty. Now, our French friends have a new type of gift to give. Electricite de France has several new, experimental reactors both under contract and under construction in several nations.

Lecture in Australia in March 2010 by Mark Diesendorf
Lecture in Australia in March 2010 by Mark Diesendorf. The promoters of nuclear power claim that we have to choose between coal and nuclear, that there is no alternative. This is a false choice. The real choice is between dirty and dangerous technologies (coal and nuclear) on one hand and clean and safe technologies (energy efficiency and renewable energy) on the other hand.
A Renewable World: Energy, Ecology, Equality: By Herbert Girardet and Miguel Mendonça.

A Renewable World: Energy, Ecology, Equality: By Herbert Girardet and Miguel Mendonça. ISBN: 978-1900322492, Publisher: Green Books
The post-Copenhagen world requires a fresh look at the big picture. In the absence of international agreements, what steps can be taken to reduce both carbon emissions and carbon concentrations? A Renewable World features solutions on renewable energy, biosequestration, energy sufficiency, energy for developing countries, green collar jobs, cities, transport, agriculture and food, regional economies, and civil participation and democracy. It seeks to clarify what can be done, and how we can all benefit, long into the future. Chapter 9 [click here], on problematic technologies, gives a lot of info about nuclear.

Response from Stop Hinkley to the National Policy Statements on Energy and Nuclear Power

The Stop Hinkley response to the Government's consultations on its Overarching Energy National Policy Statement (EN-1) and for Nuclear Power Generation (EN-6). February 2010

Response from Stop Hinkley to the Justification consultation
Response from Stop Hinkley to the Justification consultation. Our group is not convinced that nuclear power is safe either in terms of health effects that are likely to occur to communities near the plants, nor in terms of protection from a serious 'containment by-pass' accident. February 2010
Click Here for BROKEN PROMISES: WHY THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY WON'T DELIVER

In 2007, Corporate Watch produced a report on the nuclear industry titled BROKEN PROMISES: WHY THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY WON'T DELIVER By Chris Grimshaw & Olaf Bayer. Throughout its fifty year history, Britain 's nuclear industry has consistently failed to deliver on its promises. Whilst some of this material is now out of date, most of it is still relevant. The report outlined the nuclear sector and its companies; contemporary political positions; and nuclear power's history of overestimated capacities and consistent under performance: delays and budget overruns, reduced power and reliance on large government subsidy. Download here: http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=2968

Stop Hinkley's response to the EdF consultation, January 2010
Stop Hinkley's response to the EdF consultation, January 2010
Letter to the Editor of The FT from Dr David Lowry
Read the letter from the EDF's Director Energy Department to The Director of Radioprotection and Nuclear Security Terrorism: EdF wrote to the French Government after 9/11, in 2003, saying their reactors could resist a military aircraft crashing into one of their EPR reactors now proposed for Hinkley Point. It would be the responsibility of the French Government to prevent a more serious deliberate attack.  Resisting is not the same as withstanding a deliberate attack, especially that of a massive jet airliner filled with fuel. The carefully worded letter just says that the ability to resist a military plane gives 'an important capacity' to the EPR to resist the impact of a commercial airliner crashing into it. Since the letter became public in 2006 through anti-nuclear group Sortir du Nuclaire, EdF claim to have reinforced the design. But the question remains, how much extra reinforcement can a reactor design take before it really needs to be taken back to square one? Read the letter from the EDF's Director Energy Department to The Director of Radioprotection and Nuclear Security
NFLA 'New Nuclear Monitor' edition 17

 NFLA 'New Nuclear Monitor' edition 18		 These provide a thorough overview of the UK Government's National Policy Statement on Nuclear Power Generation' and the Government's draft decision Justifying new nuclear power stations. The policy papers provide an effective summary of the core arguments that the Nuclear Free Local Authorities will put forward in its response to these crucial consultations which close on February 22nd 2010.
Richard Lawson's notes on the DECC "consultation"

Consultation events for nuclear power in West Somerset were held in November 2009. Click here to read Richard Lawson's notes on the DECC "consultation" on the plan to build a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point.
Citigroup report This report, by leading investment analysts Citigroup, pulls no punches in explaining the financial risks to companies pursuing new build. It also explains how new build isn't possible without taxpayer subsidies.
Report on EDF Energy Hinkley Point Community Forum

Brief Report on EDF Energy Hinkley Point Community Forum on 30th September 2009 at Stogursey Victory Hall By Allan Jeffery, Stop Hinkley Assistant Co-ordinator.

Stop Hinkley response to the DECC consultation on nuclear site nomination. Stop Hinkley response to the DECC consultation on nuclear site nomination. This Government consultation exercise requires respondents to reply only to set questions on particular, narrow issues. More >>>
Stop Hinkley Press Release: Safety regulator may pull the plug on Hinkley C prototype Safety regulator may pull the plug on Hinkley C prototype: The nuclear regulator governing the go-ahead of the Hinkley C prototype currently being built in Finland has threatened to withold its approval because it is afraid the safety systems will not work while condemning the 'lack of professional knowledge' of those working for the design company. More>>>
Nuclear Power and the Probability of Severe Accidents
Nuclear Power and the Probability of Severe Accidents: The Department of Energy and Climate Change reported that the probability of a 'severe' accident, (ie one that would kill at least one hundred people), was one chance in 10 million per year for a modern nuclear reactor. In this short briefing, the comparable figure for a severe accident at the Sellafield nuclear site is set out - and compared with actual incidence of critical malfunction at the Sellafield site. Read more >>>
Stop Hinkley's Response to the Consultation on the DBERR Strategic Siting Assessment Process
Nuclear NO Build at Hinkley!
'Nuclear NO Build at Hinkley!' Top consultant speaks on risks of new reactors. Stop Hinkley and Sedgemoor Green Party held a public meeting in October. John Large presented his up-to-date prediction of the radiological consequences of a severely damaging incident at Hinkley Point.
The PowerPoint Presentation and Summary are now available on the Large & Associates web site. Click here
Another nuclear consultation was fixed
Another nuclear consultation was fixed: It's official, Brown's personal pollsters tried to fix another public consultation on new nuclear power.
Report by independent energy experts Pöyry. 1 Aug 2008: Implications of the UK meeting its 2020 renewable energy targets. If the government is serious about renewables and energy efficiency, Britain doesn't need to build major new power stations to keep the lights on, according to this report by independent energy experts Pöyry.
Greenpeace factsheet A useful Greenpeace briefing about the safety and cost problems associated with the new reactor being built in Finland
Stop Hinkley's 2007 Energy review submission Stop Hinkley's submission to the Government's 2007 Energy Review consultation
Click Here Link to a web-site which provides clear and independent information and analysis of the nuclear part of the new Energy Review public consultation
Click Here Nuclear Delusions: Extracts from a press release by Hugh Richards of Wales Anti Nuclear Alliance and used by Western Mail 27th August 2007
Click Here Some thoughts and reports on nuclear new build
Click Here A parliamentary meeting was held at the House of Commons to put the case for a non-nuclear energy strategy. Report available.
Click Here Stop Hinkley meets safety regulator on 'pre-licensing'
Click Here Read Stop Hinkley's responce to the Government's 2006 Energy Review
Click Here Nuclear power is not the answer to tackling climate change or security of supply, according to the Sustainable Development Commission
Click Here Read the report by WWF, showing how to reduce carbon emmissions by 60% by 2020 without resorting to nuclear power
Click Here Read about The Environmental Audit Committee Enquiry 'Keeping the Lights On' in 2005
Click Here Read Stop Hinkley's submission to 'Keeping the Lights On' enquiry in 2005
Remember Chernobyl Remember Chernobyl

Jonathan Porritt explains why nuclear plans are totally wrong.

A new nuclear power station at Hinkley point is not needed and would leave an unacceptable legacy to future generations. Jonathon Porritt voiced his views to a packed meeting of local anti-nuclear campaigners who are opposing the Somerset scheme.

 

If the video is blocked by your computer, click here to see part of Jonathon Porritt's talk on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RlacFBIlew

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Did you know .....?


Things you should know about Nuclear Power!

 

Einstein said
"A clever man solves problems,
a wise man avoids them."

 

 

We have successfully fought against nuclear power and will continue to do so -
but we need your support.

 

No-one knows the cost of nuclear power. We won't be able to add up the final bill for over a thousand years.

DVD of Jonathon Porritt's talk in Taunton

Watch Jonathon Porritt's eloquent case against nuclear power from the comfort of your armchair! You can purchase a DVD film of the inspiring 90 minute talk given by Jonathon for just £5.

Order by email, click here:
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Tony Juniper, Executive Director at Friends of the Earth, said:
"UK energy policy is at a crossroads. We can tackle climate change and meet our energy needs by cutting energy waste, harnessing the power of renewables and using fossil fuels more efficiently.

The Government must set us on the path to a clean, safe and sustainable future and turn its back once and for all on the failed, dangerous and expensive experiment of nuclear power"

 

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