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Stop Hinkley is dedicated to the decommissioning of all the nuclear reactors on the Bristol Channel and the Severn Estuary and is committed to the introduction of greener technologies more appropriate to the new millennium.

Stop Nuclear Expansion at Hinkley Point

The government is considering building a new generation of nuclear stations with Hinkley Point a favourite site, despite all the indications that renewables can fill the energy gap.

Nuclear power is not cheap and it is not safe.
Support our campaign to fight off a new station at Hinkley.

We campaigned vigorously on the dangers connected with running Hinkley 'A' and as a consequence BNFL reluctantly shut it down permanently in 2000.

Privately owned Hinkley 'B' with its massive outpouring of isotopes contributes to making the Bristol Channel the most tritium-contaminated sea in the world. We believe radioactive pollution has increased cancer deaths from Minehead to Burnham. Even Somerset Health Authority acknowledges a doubling of breast cancer mortality in Burnham North, following a study we commissioned, and a thirty percent excess of breast cancer diagnoses was subsequently found by the South West Cancer Intelligence Service, although they could prove no link to Hinkley's radioactive discharges.

Hinkley 'B' managers have admitted there are several cracks in the graphite moderator bricks which make up its reactor core. These could delay or make impossible the insertion of control rods that shut down the reactor in an emergency. Moreover the cracks could create that emergency through localised overheating. Hinkley 'B' is due to close in 2011 but British Energy has amazingly indicated they would like to extend the life of the cracked, polluting reactor for another ten years.

Upstream, the ageing reactor at Oldbury, just eight miles from Bristol, is posing a risk to the region and has been implicated in a leukaemia cluster discovered at nearby Chepstow. Technical problems abound at the plant and include crumbling reactor cores (worst in the Magnox fleet), cracking pressure vessels and subsidence. Stop Hinkley worked with regional BBC and ITV documentaries in September 2005 to highlight the risk from this crumbling old reactor.

Stop Hinkley welcomes support from all
like-minded individuals and groups.

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Nuclear power is neither cheap nor safe
... and it costs lives.

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Sponsors:
Sir Paddy Ashdown
Raymond Briggs
Julie Christie
Terry Jones
Dr Caroline Lucas MEP
Michael Meacher MP
John Williams