UK New Nuclear Power Station Gets Planning Consent – Hinckley

(Source) http://nuclear-news.net/2013/03/19/uk-new-nuclear-power-station-gets-planning-consent-hinckley/

….Keith Allott, chief advisor on climate change at WWF-UK, said: “Backing nuclear means shifting a huge liability to British taxpayers for the cost of building, electricity and, crucially, dealing with the waste.
“Unlike renewable energy, the costs of nuclear keep on rising, as witnessed by the fact that the only reactors currently being built in Europe are massively over-budget and far behind schedule. Focusing on renewables and energy efficiency, on the other hand, where the UK has huge potential to be an industrial leader, could deliver both huge cost reductions and a substantial boost to UK economic growth and manufacturing.”…. Guardian
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…One part of this permit provides for the discharge of treated radioactive waste into the Bristol Channel via the outfall tunnel. No individual limits are specified for these disposal outlets. Meanwhile schedule 23 of the permit allows for both the disposal of radioactive waste on or from the premises and the receipt of radioactive waste for the purpose of disposal. This theoretically could result in waste from the entire country being shipped to Hinkley C. … Schnewz
Energy secretary Ed Davey grants EDF permission to build and run two reactors at Hinkley Point, in Somerset

• Juliette Jowit, political correspondent
• guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 19 March 2013 14.38 GMT

Plans for the first new nuclear power station for nearly a generation in the UK have got the the go-ahead from the energy secretary, Ed Davey, who has said he is granting planning consent.
Davey told the House of Commons the French energy giant EDF would be allowed to build two new nuclear reactors at Hinkley Point in Somerset, on the site of an existing power station, which is due to close in 2023………..