Jonathon Porritt, former FOE director and founder of the non-profit Forum for the Future, has slammed government proposals to guarantee a minimum price for the electricity generated by EDF Energy for the next 30-40 years, comparing it to making a…
Newsletter 185 - May 2013
American visitors back fight against N-plant – EADT Article
Newsletter 185 - May 2013
Sizewell B Reactor Pressure Vessel (RPV) – Possibility Of Cracks
Readers of News 183 (January 2013) will know that following the discovery in June 2012 of serious cracks in two Belgian reactor pressure vessels of the same basic design as Sizewell B RPV, we have been demanding of our Office…
Newsletter 185 - May 2013
The Hopeless Sizewell Nuclear Emergency Plan Review – Our Submission
Thanks to our member, Peter Lanyon, we have made a comprehensive 3-page submission on behalf of our Campaign to the so-called ‘Suffolk Resilience Forum’ [SRF) run by the Suffolk County and Suffolk Coastal District Councils. In our submission we have…
Newsletter 185 - May 2013
The Way Forward; A Non Nuclear Future
‘The Guardian 20th March 2013 – a letter from Professor David Elliott of the Open University saying he had been part of one of the teams invited to use the DECC extensive online energy modeling system, the results recently published…
Newsletter 185 - May 2013
Edf May Not Have Cash For Hinkley
Mycle Schneider, former energy adviser to the French government, say s’the whole of the nuclear power industry in France is in big trouble’ with debts of 39billion euros- Daily Telegraph 9tt April 2013. This could well bring about a protracted…