Hunterston B Photo by David Autumns "Good news Reactor 4 next and then this cracked and broken risk will be removed from our lives. Just the radioactive cocktail it has cooked up in it's internals to deal with for thousands after thousands of years. And they want to build more and claim them as green…" …
Continue reading Not Before Time EDF’s Hunterston B is Switched Off For Good.
Heysham 1 and 2 by David Autumns Sharing this from the Office for Nuclear Regulation. This is so very wrong. The Office for Nuclear Regulation have bowed to EDF's ask that they are granted a runtime extension to the start of the "Statutory" Outage Period. This is so EDF can get their logistics together on …
Continue reading Extension of Operating Period for Heysham 1 Reactor 1.
A supporter of Radiation Free Lakeland has pointed out that the news that there is too much electricity going into the grid: "shows the fallacy of "base load". What it really means in inflexible. Yet again we are seeing the economics of nuclear fail, as it is very expensive so needs a guaranteed price per …
Heysham 2 and Morecambe Bay Heysham 1 (beige colour ) is the nuclear reactor running on 7 out of 8 boilers as one has cracked supports. and Heysham 2 (white top) Photos and description by David Autumns. "Heysham 1 is the beige building, the sister station to Hartlepool. This is the reactor that has the …
Below is a letter just sent from a supporter of Radiation Free Lakeland to EDF the operators of Hunterston B. Many thanks to David Autumns for his scrutiny on this - the nuclear industry, the most dangerous industry humans have ever engaged in, needs holding to account more than ever. Dear EDF Thank you for …
Continue reading Letter of Thanks to Operators of Cracked Nuclear Reactors in Scotland
The excellent series provoked questions and the answer given by our nuclear industry and regulators is that "Chernobyl Couldn't Happen Here". Well maybe not the exact set of circumstances. But the combination of inevitable human error and the complex, unforgiving nature of nuclear power means that the variables are infinite but the results of …
Continue reading Chernobyl Couldn’t Happen Here!? Think Again.
Photos by David Autumns - Hunterston B is opposite the Isle of Arran in Scotland I supported the petition asking for the 'limit' not to be upped to 700 cracks in the graphite at Hunterston B . Incredibly the Government's own petition site has rejected this petition while seriously considering upping the limit for cracks …
Members of Radiation Free Lakeland, have been inspired by the example set by David Autumns to write individual letters to EDF the French electric utility company, (largely owned by the French state) asking EDF to completely scrap the restarting of their ageing nuclear reactors at Hunterston B. There should be widespread anti-nuclear protests in the …
Continue reading Restarting Hunterston’s Ageing Nuclear Reactors – Ongoing Correspondence with EDF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVVCCY_3_Gg The Chernobyl series has sent a shock wave through the Millenial generation. Millenials have been fed a grossly rose tinted view of the nuclear industry through the media, through the education system, through the wholesale abdication of mainstream NGOs ((Foe and Greenpeace in the UK have not actively had a dedicated campaign …
Continue reading Millenials and the Chernobyl Series: “Tell us the Truth!”
UPDATE as of 23rd March - Cyclife (EDF) radioactive scrap metal 'recycling' yard has withdrawn their application to the Environment Agency for an increase in radioactive liquid discharge to the drains at Lillyhall. This follows our complaints (see below). The situation is still dire with radioactive wastes (including active laundry) going to Lillyhall for novel …
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