Power company EDF says that the new nuclear plant it is building at Hinkley Point in the south of England will cost up to £2.9 billion more than thought. It raised its estimate for the project to between £21.5bn and £22.5bn. It also said the risk of the project being 15 months late had risen. …
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Not far from the site of Wylfa nuclear power station, two clean energy projects are being envisaged. ‘Morlais’ and ‘Minesto’ projects hope to enstall wave powered turbines just off the north coast of Anglesey. They hope to produce hundreds of megawatts of renewable, low carbon, dependable and clean electricity. Both projcts have been supported by …
People Against Wylfa B joined anti nuclear campaigners from around the world at celebrations in Brittany marking the 40th anniversary of the victory over the threatened Plogoff nuclear power plant.
No more highly dangerous nuclear waste is to be moved by train from Wylfa according to reports in the Daily Post. For 50 years freight trains have been carting the radiological hazard from Wylfa to Sellafield, Cumbria. Magnox have claimed the movement of waste by train is no longer required since the last nuclear reactor …
A documentary that reveals the effects of years of dumping of radioactive waste at sea on the health of people living around the coasts.
Billions over budget and years behind schedule Flamanville is a stark warning for any new nuclear power plant at Wylfa. Due to be up and running in 2012 at a cost of €3.3 billion, 2022 and €10.9 billion are the projected date and cost for the planned Flamanville nuclear power plant in France. The Times …
Energy consumers could be forced to stump up for a new nuke at Wylfa under UK government plans to subsidise nuclear investors – with taxpayers picking up the cost when things go wrong. The £12 billion scheme for a new nuclear power plant at Wylfa, Anglesey was scrapped earlier this year. Hitachi and Horizon Nuclear …
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Horizon, the company that planned to build the new Wylfa nuclear power station has reported a £1.68bn pre-tax loss according to the BBC. Work at Wylfa Newydd was suspended in January by Hitachi due to rising costs. Most of the Horizon staff have since been made redundant. The latest accounts filed by its subsidiary Horizon …
PAWB member Linda Rogers has warned that the CBI has its head in the sand over nuclear reactors in a recent letter published in the Guardian. “Has the Confederation of British Industry got its head in the sand, or in the record levels of carbon-intensive concrete just poured at the Hinkley C nuclear site (Build …
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How many over the viewers of the Chernobyl TV series are aware the nuclear fallout seriously affected Wales? Millions have watched Chernobyl, a mini TV series dramatising the 1986 nuclear accident, one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history — and of the sacrifices made to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.. Dangerous radioactive clouds were …
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