Tag Archives: Sizewell C

Legal challenge against Sizewell C nuclear power plant rejected via The Guardian

Posted on 2023/06/22 by nfield

A legal challenge against the government’s decision to build the Sizewell C nuclear power plant has been rejected. The campaign group Together Against Sizewell C (Tasc) had launched a judicial review against the government’s decision to give the green light to the 3.2 gigawatt … Continue reading →

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Hinkley Point C: Chinese nuclear plant fault may delay UK power plan via The Times

Posted on 2021/12/01 by nfield

Key safety components in the UK’s first new nuclear power station for 30 years may need to be redesigned and the project could be delayed after defects were detected at a similar reactor in China. The £22 billion Hinkley Point C plant … Continue reading →

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New Nuclear: What’s at Stake for Wildlife? via Greater Manchester Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

Posted on 2021/10/13 by nfield

This webinar featured: • Juliet Davenport OBE (founder of Good Energy) • Jonathon Porritt (founder of Forum for the Future) • Diana Quick (actress and Sizewell C campaigner) • Craig Bennett (CEO, The Wildlife Trusts) WHAT’S IT ABOUT? New nuclear … Continue reading →

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Utterly destroyed via Beyond Nuclear International

Posted on 2021/07/05 by nfield

That’s the outlook for a spectacular stretch of coastline should new reactors be built there From Blackwater Against New Nuclear Group “The Essex coastline is remarkable for its length, at 350 miles the longest of any county in England, its … Continue reading →

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The next ‘Great Tide’ via Beyond Nuclear International

Posted on 2020/12/11 by nfield

Exposed to rising tides and storm surges, Britain’s nuclear plants stand in harm’s way By Andrew Blowers ‘It was now that wind and sea in concert leaped forward to their triumph.’Hilda Grieve: The Great Tide: The Story of the 1953 … Continue reading →

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‘The Sizewell C plans are an insult to the people of Suffolk’ via East Anglian Daily Times

Posted on 2020/06/28 by nfield

Chairman of Together Against Sizewell C, Pete Wilkinson, has described it is a “battle for the soul and integrity of East Suffolk”. Here he explains why he is opposing the nuclear project. Anyone new to Suffolk, ignorant of EDF’s nuclear … Continue reading →

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New nuclear power plant planned for Suffolk coast would be devastating for wildlife via Beyond Nuclear International

Posted on 2020/06/09 by nfield

EDF wants to plow ahead (literally) with its #SizewellC nuclear reactor plan on the Suffolk, UK coast (to be built on the beach virtually at sea level during a time of erosion and climate crisis), which would tear up and permanently destroy … 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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