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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 last year at Sizewell
Nuclear Spin
Two senior ex-ministers who will earn tens of thousands of pounds on top of their parliamentary salaries by working for the nuclear industry look set to be summoned before an inquiry into lobbying. The relationship between Parliament and the industry, which is bidding for billions of pounds of contracts, will come under scrutiny from the Public Administration Committee. Ian McCartney, the former chairman of the Labour Party and former Trade Minister, and Richard Caborn, the former Sports Minister and former chairman of the Trade and Industry Select Committee, have each taken the roles since standing down from the Government in the summer. Times 10th Jan 2008
