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Anti Nuke Groups to MeetThere will be an all-Wales meeting of WANA, PAWB and other anti-nuclear organisations at The aim of the meeting is to discuss the way forward with our campaign against Wylfa B. Hugh Richards (WANA) will be the presenting the paper he recently gave to the Welsh Assembly government. All are welcome, but this a meeting for anti-nuclear activists, not a public meeting or debate about nuclear power. |
Press Watch: The Independent on Sunday, 8, February 2009
"New nuclear reactors planned for Britain will produce many times more radiation than previous reactors that could be rapidly released in an accident".
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Blown Off Course
The Guardian reported on Wednesday 14 January 2009 that:
Areva, the French nuclear plant designer expected to be at the forefront of a British atomic power revival, has become embroiled in a war of words with a Finnish utility over delays at the site of Europe's first new nuclear station for 30 years.
The latest setback will worry ministers in London who are trying to convince sceptics that nuclear can deliver quickly and efficiently to meet the looming energy "crunch" after 2015.
Jarmo Tanhua, chief executive of Teollisuuden Voima Oy (TVO), the Finnish electricity provider, said he was "extremely disappointed" that Areva had told it that the Olkiluoto 3 facility was not going to be completed until 2012 – three years later than originally expected.
But he also attacked Areva and its German consortium partner Siemens for suggesting the embarrassing problems that have given valuable ammunition to the anti-nuclear lobby had been caused by the Finns.
So that bodes well, then!
A little article in Private Eye recently includes the following about RWE, the great white hope of our esteemed pollies on Ynys Môn:
"RWE's contractors on the Staythorpe gas-fired power station in Nottinghamshire are two Spanish firms, Montperssa & FMM. Both announced that that they had no intention of employing local labour, or indeed using UK workers for the vast majority of work on the site, telling outraged construction unions they would supply workers from abroad"...
| Government's Survey found to be "inaccurate" In response to a complaint presented by Greenpeace 13 months ago, the Marketing Research Standards Board has concluded that the second public consultation by Gordon Brown’s government in 2007 on nuclear power was flawed. The government used a market research company “OpinionLeader Research” who conducted polling across Britain on the government’s proposals to include new nuclear power stations as part of the energy mix.The Marketing Research Standards Board scathingly criticised “Opinion Leader Research’s “ methods on behalf of the Brown government as follows:- “information was inaccurately or misleadingly presented, or was imbalanced, which gave rise to a material risk of respondents being led towards a particular answer”.Opinion Leader are now required by the Marketing Research Standards Board “to take corrective action with regard to the process that resultedin the breach in this case”. This leaves Gordon Brown’s energy policy in total chaos after his attempt to promote nuclear power through dubious and inappropriate methods. PAWB calls on the government to abandon its blind commitment to nuclear power, and to concentrate on a comprehensive programme of energy conservation and producing renewable energy from all the available sources. |
So much for the French Connection!
An announcement by the French electricity company EDF that they are selling the land which they only recently bought near Wylfa nuclear power station (see previous item below) underlines the fact that Wylfa is a weak contender for a second nuclear plant. If it were a truly favourable site, then EDF would not have decided to sell this land so recently acquired, so quickly.While EDF moves its attention to more lucrative British Energy sites which they are in the process of buying, the time has come for some local politicians to stop misleading people into thinking that Wylfa has a future as a nuclear power generating site. They should instead focus their attention on the National Assembly Government’s commitment to renewable enrgy and its wish to make Wales a nation which will be at the heart of a green and clean energy revolution.
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3 Studies Highlight Cancer Links to Nukes One report found a 117% increase in leukaemia among young children living near all 16 large German nuclear facilities between 1980 and 2003. News in full >>> |
Company Snaps Up Land Near Wylfa
A French firm with a dubious saftey record, EDF Energy, is understood to have bought farmland around Wylfa, on Anglesey, in anticipation of the Government sanctioning a new station on the island.
The French nuclear safety agency ASN has uncovered a series of defects in the construction of a reactor in Normandy considered to be the template for the next generation of EDF stations threatened for Britain. ASN, says that a quarter of the welds seen in its steel liner are not in accordance with welding norms, and that cracks have been found it its concrete base, both essential for containing radioactivity in the event of accidents.
The reports – in a series of letters covering inspections made between December and April – will cause particular concern because similar defects have been listed in a previous report by the Finnish safety authority into the only other reactor of its type being built anywhere in the world.
The earlier report helped put the Finnish reactor, on the island of Olkiluoto, two years behind schedule, three years after construction began. It is also believed to have helped increase its cost by more than £1,000,000,000. Similar delays and cost overruns here would play havoc with the Government's nuclear programme, and could even lead to it being abandoned.
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Dear Albert An open letter to Albert Owen M.P. for Anglesey. ...While discussing nuclear waste, you said with conviction:- |
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In an on-line poll on the North Wales Chronicle website between 17-25 January asking if there should be a new nuclear power station in Anglesey? |
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DIOLCH >> THANKS! To everyone who came to support PAWB at the Anhrefn / Byd Mawr Gig at Cwm y Glo on Saturday 16 February. Special Thanks to Dewi & the DJs, Sion, Rhys and the owners of Y Fricsan. |
Rhodri says No to Nukes in Wales
At the moment, the main political spanner in the works for pro nuclear aims is that the devolved governments of Wales and Scotland are against building new nuclear plants and are far from being in favour of burying waste under their land. In 12 June [2007] first minister of the newly elected Welsh coalition government, Rhodri Morgan, told assembly members that Wales did not want new nuclear plants.
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A confident future for the population of the island. |
No to a New Nuke at Wylfa!
A few politicians, led by Albert Owen MP, are campaigning for a new nuclear power station to be built at Wylfa, Anglesey, north Wales – after the present plant closes in 2010. They hope to win votes by appearing to secure jobs.
The politicians DO NOT like to talk about
- Public health
- Public safety
- Cost to the environment
- The millions it will cost you
The closure of the present site has been known about for four decades, but the politicians have failed to secure safe employment for the island.
A protest held at Sizewell
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