New Nukes
Letter from Jack Harris: For all his protestations, David Lowry is running scared. As a renewable energy consultant, he has a vested interest in renewable energy generation. Up to 10,000 people in the UK die every year from asbestos poisoning, 1,000 from the sun’s radiation, 3,000 from radioactive radon gas, 3,000 die from road accidents while another 250,000 are injured and so on. No-one has died from radiation from a UK nuclear power station in its 50 years of operation. Yet, David Lowry wants us to be afraid of CO2-free nuclear power electricity generation.
Western Mail 8th Nov 2008 more >>
Scotland
THE UK government is searching for a way to end Scotland’s effective veto over the building of nuclear power stations north of the Border. It has asked the Calman Commission – set up to review devolution – to solve the “problem” of Holyrood using devolved powers, such as over planning, to block its energy plans.
Scotsman 11th Nov 2008 more >>
Daily EXpress 11th Nov 2008 more >>
Springfields
TWO years of faultless engineering has taken a group of Fylde nuclear workers to the seat of Government.
Five staff from Springfields near Kirkham were invited to the Houses of Parliament after the firm reported two years without a single engineering fault.
Blackpool Gazette 10th Nov 2008 more >>
Sizewell
British Energy’s Sizewell B2 nuclear reactor went offline on Monday morning, a website operated by the National Grid showed.
Reuters 10th Nov 2008 more >>
Nuclear Weapons
A U.S. nuclear warhead was abandoned under the ice in northern Greenland after a B52 bomber crashed in 1968, an investigation has found.
Daily Mail 11th Nov 2008 more >>
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Test Veterans
OLD soldier Ken McGinley has honoured Britain’s war dead ahead of Remembrance Sunday by stepping up his campaign for compensation for veterans involved in nuclear bomb testing half-a-century ago.
Paisley Daily Express 8th Nov 2008 more >>
Germany
Riot police forcibly removed protesters who were staging a sit-in outside a nuclear waste dump in northern Germany. More than 1,000 people had gathered outside the dump near Gorleben, seeking to prevent 11 lorries from bringing in 123 tonnes of radioactive waste for storage.
Times 11th Nov 2008 more >>
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Companies
French oil and gas giant Total is targeting nuclear energy to drive growth long after oil and gas output peak, a top executive said on Monday.
Money AM 10th Nov 2008 more >>
Syria
Syria has vehemently rejected Israeli and American claims that it was constructing a secret nuclear plant at the destroyed facility. However Damascus failed to bring its protests over the violation of its sovereignty during the attack to the United Nations Security Council. Instead it razed the site, which was located near the Euphrates River near the border with Iraq, before granting access to inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Diplomats in Vienna reported that inspectors had found uranium particles, despite the Syrian clean-up.
Telegraph 10th Nov 2008 more >>
India
The UK Government has announced the lifting of a ban on exporting sensitive nuclear technology to India. Firms had up until last month been banned from supplying equipment and material on the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) “trigger list” to India. But the government says that items intended for civilian nuclear projects can now be exported.
BBC 10th Nov 2008 more >>
Channel 4 News 10th Nov 2008 more >>
Renewables
Two of the world’s leading wind farm operators have teamed up to make joint bids for the next round of offshore licences in Britain. ScottishPower Renewables, part of Spain’s Iberdrola Renovables, is joining forces with Sweden’s Vattenfall with the aim of developing 6,000 megawatts of installed capacity.
Guardian 11th Nov 2008 more >>
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