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Hinkley Point – BBC Radio 4 – Today Program

On July 28, 2016July 28, 2016 By admin

There is no doubt that we need electricity, we just don’t need the electricity from Hinkley at enormous cost. It’s very unreliable, we are not sure that this type of reactor will actually work. There are much better ways of achieving the security of supply we need […]

Hinkley Point C nuclear deal contains £22bn ‘poison pill’ for taxpayer

On March 18, 2016 By admin

‘If the SoSIA is signed it will change the argument over Hinkley. Instead of being an argument about why we should kill this white elephant – which the government has comprehensively lost – it will become an argument about not being able to afford the bullets to kill the […]

BBC World News – Is Hinkley dead? – 8 March 16

On March 15, 2016 By admin

BBC: Professor Tom Burke is the chairman of the environmental think tank E3G, he joins me now in the studio, welcome to you. Where do you think this project is floundering? Tom Burke: Well, as I listen to the President and the Prime Minister talk about how […]

Is nuclear power a ticking time bomb? – France24 Debate – 8 Mar 16

On March 10, 2016 By admin

I think that you really want to consider much more than just the body count of deaths when you look to evaluate a complicated problem like this. This has been a social catastrophe, the people who used to live near Fukushima […]

Tom Burke talks to LBC about nuclear power, Hinkley Point and EDF – 07 Mar 16

On March 9, 2016 By admin

Clive Bull: A top EDF boss has resigned over the company’s plans to build Britain’s first new nuclear power plant for decades. There is an ongoing row over the 18 billion pound cost, part of which China is paying for. The government wants to […]

Letters to PM warned of the risks of going ahead with Hinkley Point

On March 8, 2016March 8, 2016 By admin

In March 2012, on the anniversary of Fukushima, I drafted a letter to the Prime Minister that was signed by myself and three other former Directors of Friends of the Earth. One year later we wrote a second letter […]

The future of Hinkley Point – BBC News

On March 7, 2016March 8, 2016 By admin

Delays, rising costs and now a rift at the top of EDF, the giant French company we are relying on to build a new Nuclear power station to replace this one at Hinkey Point. The chief financial officer Thomas Piquemal, is reported to have warned that EDF’S […]

Why nuclear is a bad deal for Britain – BBC Politics Today – 21 October 15

On October 21, 2015 By admin

Nuclear is the cuckoo in the nest it squeezes the others out of the energy market. The reason why we are doing what we are doing, making so many policy changes in energy efficiency and renewables, and eliminating billions of pounds of investment, is to make sure that there […]

Why Hinkley is a very bad deal for Britain – BBC News

On October 21, 2015October 21, 2015 By admin

Here at Hinkley Point alongside existing reactors is where George Osborne wants to build a new nuclear power station in Britain. It will be built by EDF, a French state owned electricity company, and will cost 24 and a half billion pounds, that’s more than Crossrail and the […]

WHAT’S IN A WORD 3

On September 13, 2015September 14, 2015 By admin

John Hutton is Chairman of the Nuclear Industries Association. On August 24th he told the Radio 4 Today audience that “The nuclear programme is going to be built without any state funding at all”. Sitting next to him in the studio I nearly fell off my […]