Please
support UK anti nuclear campaign! Here is
their report:
At 6am this morning 10 protestors
blockaded access to EDF energy’s nuclear sites at Hinkley Point, preventing the
morning shift from starting work. 4 people in arm locks formed a barrier across
the main access road at Wick Moor Drove in a bid to prevent further ground
clearance work at the planned Hinkley C site and to protest at EDF’s plan to
extend the life of aging reactors at the Hinkley B station.
Sitting beneath a banner saying
“Nuclear Power – not worth the risk” Bristol tree-surgeon Zoe Smith said, “We
want the destruction of land at the proposed Hinkley C site to stop. EDF still don’t have planning permission
for the new nuclear plant, the governments energy policy is in tatters. With
Centrica pulling out and the long awaited Electricity Reform Act delayed, there
is not even enough investment to finish the project. If the Tories fix the electricity price
for nuclear so that the project can go ahead it will leave a radioactive waste
dump here for hundreds of years.”
The early morning blockade caused long tailbacks for scores of workers
contracted in to perform maintenance work on the the existing reactors at
Hinkley B, EDF have signalled their intention to re-licence the reactor again
in 2016.
Bridgwater mum Nikki Clark
from South West Against Nuclear said, “Not only do we not need new nuclear, we
certainly don’t need to extend the life of the existing reactors even further.
Just this year alone reactor no 4 in the B station has scrammed at least three
times. EDF like to call these emergency shutdowns ‘unplanned outages’ but this
deliberately conceals the fact that these ageing reactors are now in a dangerous condition. In 2008 the regulators
threatened British Energy with closure of the site. The reactors do not have
any fewer cracks in the graphite core now than they did then. Do we have to
have our own Fukushima here in Somerset before we abandon this insanity and
embrace a renewables revolution in the UK?”.......
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