02 Feb 12: Ministers 'misled MPs over need for nuclear power stations': Ministers misled parliament over the need to build a new fleet of nuclear power stations, distorting evidence and presenting to MPs a false summary of the analysis they had commissioned. More >>>

02 Feb 12: Weakness of infrastructure at Hinkley C a concern for Taunton Deane Borough Council: Concerns over the weakness of infrastructure exposed by the planned new nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point have been officially lodged by Taunton Deane Borough Council. More >>>

20 Jan 12: UK 'subsidising nuclear power unlawfully': Green energy campaigners are attempting to block new nuclear power stations in the UK by complaining to the European Commission that government plans contravene EU competition regulations. More >>>

19 Jan 12: Anti-nuclear campaigners plan legal challenge to new British power stations: A group of politicians and environmentalists are trying to block the building of new nuclear power stations in Britain by submitting a formal complaint to the European commission. More >>>

07 Dec 11: Hinkley Point nuclear protesters take fight to Prime Minister David Cameron: Campaigners yesterday stepped up their battle against a new nuclear power station in Somerset by handing a major petition to 10 Downing Street. More >>>

05 Dec 11: UK government shared intelligence with nuclear industry, documents show: The British government has been quietly exchanging intelligence on key policies with multinational companies in an effort to protect and promote their plans for new nuclear power stations, according to internal documents seen by the Guardian. More >>>

25 Nov 11: Nuclear power 'gets little public support worldwide': In countries with nuclear programmes, people are significantly more opposed than they were in 2005, with only the UK and US bucking the trend. More >>>

21 Nov 11: Councils express concern over Hinkley transport proposals: WEST Somerset, Sedgemoor and Somerset County Council have said they are concerned about a lack of ‘detailed information' surrounding transport proposals for EDF Energy's planned new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point. More >>>

16 Nov 11: Burnham councillors express fears over Hinkley sea discharge plans: Town councillors in Burnham-on-Sea have this week expressed concern over plans for liquid effluent to be discharged into the Bristol Channel from the proposed Hinkley Point C nuclear power station. More >>>

15 Nov 11: Somerset councils approve EDF's Hinkley consultation: Three councils in Somerset have said EDF Energy has carried out an adequate consultation over its planned new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point. More >>>

14 Nov 11: £50m deal as wind turbine land goes to nuclear plant: Lady Elizabeth Gass, who is the Lord Lieutenant of Somerset, is reported by the Sunday Times to have become a beneficiary of Britain's dash for nuclear power with the sale of 230 acres of Quantock Hills land to energy company EDF. More >>>

13 Nov 11: Ofgem study 'undermines' case for nuclear: Plans being considered by the industry regulator could undermine the prospect of new UK nuclear power plants. The cost of feeding the north of Scotland's renewable energy into the national power grid could fall by 80% under the proposals. More >>>

10 Nov 11: EDF fined €1.5m for spying on Greenpeace: EDFs head of nuclear production security in 2006, Pascal Durieux, was given a three-year sentence with two years suspended, and a €10,000 fine for commissioning the spying. More >>>

28 Oct 11: EDF Delays Construction Of 4 Nuclear Reactors In UK: French power company Electricite de France SA decided to delay the construction of four planned nuclear reactors in the U.K., a company spokeswoman said. More >>>

27 Oct 11: No firm date set for new UK nuclear plant: EDF Energy will not set a firm date for completion of its first new nuclear power plant in Britain until it makes its final investment decision at the end of next year, the chief executive said. More >>>

25 Oct 11: Renewables could be UK's major power source by 2030: The UK could be primarily powered by a secure and inexhaustible supply of renewable energy by 2030 without the need for new nuclear power plants, according to a report commissioned by WWF. More >>>

16 Oct 11: Nuclear bombshell hits E.ON energy project: E.ON could pull out of developing nuclear power stations in Britain - following the example of RWE, its partner in the project. More >>>

13 Oct 11: Strontium found at city near Tokyo after Fukushima disaster: STRONTIUM 90, a highly dangerous radioactive isotope, has reportedly been found atop an apartment building in Yokohama, fuelling fears that fallout from the Fukushima disaster has affected the greater Tokyo area. More >>>

12 Oct 11: 145,000 page Hinkley Point planning application attacked by MP: Burnham-On-Sea's MP has this week quizzed the Secretary of State for Energy on how residents are supposed to be able to consider EDF's Hinkley Point planning application when it amounts to a massive 145000 pages. During a debate in the House of Commons Tessa Munt said that it is 95,000 pages long with 50,000 pages of supporting documents. More >>>

03 Oct 11: Fully energised about nuclear safety: Nuclear regulators have insisted that scores of changes are made to the reactor designs that could be built in the UK. More >>>

03 Oct 11: Protesters blockade nuclear power station: Members of several anti-nuclear groups who are part of the Stop New Nuclear alliance say they are barring access to Hinkley Point power station in Somerset in protest against EDF Energy's plans to renew the site with two new reactors. More >>>

03 Oct 11: Activists hail nuclear plant protest: Protesters who blockaded a nuclear power station today have said their actions were a "phenomenal success" in shedding light on opposition to new nuclear reactors. More >>>

03 Oct 11: Questions over funding for nuclear expansion: Many countries are committed to backing more nuclear power, but observers claim that utilities will only be able to pay for plants if, controversially, governments guarantee their incomes. More >>>

02 Oct 11: Hinkley power station proposals 'poses a threat to one million people in South Wales': WELSH campaigners protested in Somerset yesterday against EDF Energy's plans to build two new nuclear reactors - arguing they pose a threat to more than one million people in South Wales. More >>>

24 Sep 11: EDF hits back over Hinkley Point complaint: Stop Hinkley accused EDF of failing to remove spoil contaminated with asbestos left over from the construction of the original Hinkley site. More >>>

21 Sep 11: Judicial review into Hinkley power plant worker homes plan: A judge has granted a judicial review into plans to build accommodation for workers at the proposed new nuclear power station at Hinkley in Somerset. More >>>

21 Sep 11: Scottish nuclear fuel leak 'will never be completely cleaned up': Radioactive contamination that leaked for more than two decades from the Dounreay nuclear plant on the north coast of Scotland will never be completely cleaned up, a Scottish government agency has admitted. More >>>

19 Sep 11: Siemens to quit nuclear industry: German industrial and engineering conglomerate Siemens is to withdraw entirely from the nuclear industry. More >>>

15 Sep 11: EDF under fire over 'rule break': Anti-nuclear campaign group Stop Hinkley this week accused the energy firm of breaching planning conditions and claimed the "rule break" did not bode well for the future development of the site. More >>>

13 Sep 11: Stop Hinkley group says French explosion is a "sobering reminder": A group campaigning against the expansion of Hinkley Point power station says this week's explosion at a French nuclear plant in which one person was killed and four others were injured is a "sobering reminder of how things can go wrong". More >>>

12 Sep 11: Explosion at French nuclear waste plant: An explosion at a French nuclear waste processing plant that killed one person and injured four others sparked fears of a radioactive leak on Monday. An emergency safety cordon was thrown around the Marcoule nuclear site near Nimes in the south of France immediately after a furnace used to melt nuclear waste exploded and caused a fire. More >>>

09 Sep 11: Stop New Nuclear group plans protests against Hinkley expansion: Campaigners opposed to the UK government's nuclear expansion programme are planning a series of events at Hinkley power station near Burnham-on-Sea. From September 11th the Stop New Nuclear group will be holding a series of events to highlight what they claim are the dangers of nuclear power - and to demand safer alternatives. More >>>

09 Sep 11: Fukushima disaster: it's not over yet: Six months after the multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, the streets have been cleared but the psychological damage remains. More >>>

06 Sep 11: Burnham and Highbridge councillors raise fresh Hinkley fears: Town councillors have this week raised fresh concerns about the impact that the multi-billion pound expansion of Hinkley Point will have on Burnham-on-Sea and Highbridge. More >>>

06 Sep 11: Is solar the future for energy production?: Green entrepreneur Jeremy Leggett advocates following China and Germany 's move towards investment in solar power now that start-up costs are falling drastically. Wall Street has developed an aversion to solar-company stocks. Yet in the USA , solar jobs now outnumber steel jobs and in Germany solar jobs outnumber nuclear jobs. More >>>

31 Aug 11: French nuclear watchdog identifies gaps and weaknesses in Hinkley's model: Concerns by the French nuclear safety watchdog over the energy giant EDF's new nuclear power plant in France has fuelled opposition to the firm's plans in Somerset. More >>>

24 Aug 11: Environmentalists step up fight against Hinkley Point power station: ENVIRONMENTALISTS have stepped up their fight against a planned nuclear power station 15 miles from the South Wales coast. Campaigners say the development, at Hinkley Point on the north Somerset coast, could impact on Cardiff, the Vale of Glamorgan and other parts of the region. More >>>

22 Aug 11: Diggers roll in as nuclear finds its feet in Somerset: Europe's biggest civil engineering project is beginning to growl, grind and grunt - even though full planning permission has yet to be granted for two proposed pressurised water reactors at Hinkley Point. More >>>

04 Aug 11: Sellafield will remain a threat to Ireland: The closure of the Mox nuclear plant is good news, but Ireland is still a long way from escaping the shadow of Sellafield. More >>>

03 Aug 11: Sellafield Mox nuclear fuel plant to close: The mixed-oxide fuel plant will be shut as a consequence of the Fukushima incident, with the loss of about 600 jobs. More >>>

02 Aug 11: Hinkley Point C comes a step closer: Campaigners against the new power station said EDF had "jumped the gun" as it has yet to apply for planning permission for the whole project, and stood in protest outside West Somerset Council's offices in Williton. More >>>

01 Aug 11: Hinkley C - Somerset's nuclear money pit?: Uncosted, unapproved, and unwanted: why Britain's new nuclear plant may never get built. More >>>

25 Jul 11: City presses Centrica to cancel plans for building nuclear power plants: Centrica is being urged by the City to withdraw from a £4bn commitment to build new nuclear power stations in partnership with Electricité de France (EDF) amid soaring costs and delays at a prototype reactor at Flamanville in France. More >>>

22 Jul 11: Nuclear power's real chain reaction - spiralling costs: The new delays and bumper cost overruns of EDF's new reactor in France make it very hard to believe that nuclear power can fulfil the promises its supporters make. More >>>

21 Jul 11: EDF nuclear unit design delays new builds in UK, France: EDF Energy announced that its European pressurised reactor at Flamanville will not be on line until 2016 - four years later than planned - raising fears that the French energy giant has fallen behind schedule on its two UK new builds. More >>>

20 Jul 11: Local landowner creates hitch for EDF nuclear plan: The nuclear industry and the Government have been braced for a legal challenge to derail their plans to build new reactors for years. Executives fear an anti-nuclear group such as Greenpeace could tie the controversial programme up in legal knots. But The Times can reveal that the first legal spanner in the works has emerged instead from the most unlikely of sources - a cellophane manufacturer in Somerset. More >>>

12 Jul 11: IPC faces first judicial review: The JR that has been launched is about the prospective application to build a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point in Somerset. More >>>

09 Jul 11: Pedal Power at Hinkley: About 30 cyclists from the Bicycology group visited Hinkley Point on 3 July to hear about the Stop Hinkley campaign. More >>>

01 Jul 11: Glastonbury Festival 2011: There was a good presence of Stop Hinkley at Glastonbury Festival this year. Six members joined forces with other anti-nuclear groups. More >>>

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