Tag Archives: Hinkley C

Time is running out: Coalition is fighting urgent battle to stop latest radioactive mud dump by EdF via Beyond Nuclear International

Posted on 2022/02/25 by nfield

By Linda Pentz Gunter An urgent campaign is underway in the UK to save the Severn Estuary from the prospect of more dredging and dumping of radioactive mud from the Hinkley C two-reactor construction site. The Severn Estuary is a marine protected … Continue reading →

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The even madder plan to build a new nuclear plant on the beach via Beyond Nuclear International

Posted on 2019/04/29 by nfield

By Linda Pentz Gunter In December 2018 we ran an article — The mad plan to store nuclear waste on the beach— which has become one of our most read stories. Now, as the climate crisis worsens, here comes a possibly even … Continue reading →

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Military secrets of our nuclear power plants via The Guardian

Posted on 2017/12/27 by nfield

In her excellent article on the Hinkley C nuclear plant financial fiasco (The long read, 21 December), Holly Watt mentions the innovative insight of Sussex University academics Prof Andy Stirling and Dr Phil Johnstone, who have identified the central importance … Continue reading →

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Hinkley Point C: watchdog confirms fears of political vanity project via The Guardian

Posted on 2017/06/23 by nfield

Nils Pratley The National Audit Office does not use excitable phrases like “utter shambles.” But the spending watchdog’s verdict on Hinkley Point C, the nuclear power plant in Somerset that is supposedly inevitable, amounts to the same thing. The government “has … Continue reading →

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Five ways to power the UK that are far better than Hinkley Point via The Guardian

Posted on 2016/03/18 by yukimiyamotodepaul

These alternatives to the troubled planned nuclear plant will be faster to build and cheaper for energy consumers, say experts […] Energy efficiency Electricity demand is already falling. The Somerset site for Hinkley C was approved in 2010 but since … Continue reading →

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False solution: Nuclear power is not ‘low carbon’ via Ecologist

Posted on 2015/02/06 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Claims that nuclear power is a ‘low carbon’ energy source fall apart under scrutiny, writes Keith Barnham. Far from coming in at six grams of CO2 per unit of electricity for Hinkley C, as the Climate Change Committee believes, the … Continue reading →

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The BBC, Friends of the Earth and nuclear power via The Ecologist

Posted on 2014/09/18 by kojimaaiko

At first it looked like a journalistic coup, writes Neil Crumpton – the BBC’s ‘scoop’ that FOE was no longer opposed to nuclear power. Except that FOE remains firmly anti-nuclear as it has been for decades. The spotlight must now … Continue reading →

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Hinkley C – a nuclear subsidy too far via Ecologist

Posted on 2014/04/09 by yukimiyamotodepaul

As the European Commission considers the £100 billion subsidy package the UK has offered EDF to build and operate Hinkley C nuclear power station, Paul Dorfman explains why the ‘deal’ is illegal, anti-renewables, and ruinous to energy users and tax … Continue reading →

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EU criticizes UK for state aid to new Hinkley C nuclear reactors via Greenpeace

Posted on 2014/02/03 by yukimiyamotodepaul

For a full briefing on the Commissions comments please go to Energydesk. The European Commission (EC) has delivered what can only be called a scathing initial verdict on the UK Government’s deal with French state owned EDF to build the … Continue reading →

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