Not Exactly
During December Urenco produced a statement which states:-
‘ Urenco welcomes the UK Government’s pledge to realise a more ambitious target of reducing the country’s emissions by at least 68% by 2030, as compared with 1990 levels.’
What this statement does not include is how mining and processing uranium, the building of new reactors, or nukiller waste storage processes increase atmospheric pollution.
While there is no account of transport carbons emissions in this statement.
The best line in this statement states: –
‘ This pledge further demonstrates a serious intention for the UK to be seen as a leader in decarbonisation.‘
It sounds very similar to those lines we keep hearing from those who operate Sellafield.
It’s more like world leaders in the production of pollution.
Sizewell
Together Against Sizewell C [ TASC ] was founded in 2013 to stop EDF’s plans to build two EPR nukiller reactors on Suffolk’s fragile Heritage Coast.
You can read about their campaigning activities at
ONR Reports ‘Significant incidents‘.
Normally we would not recommend anyone to read the publications of the Nukiller Power Industry, but this is [ as they say ] an exception.
The annual report of the Office for Nuclear Regulation [ ONR ] was published in November.
As with all such reports it is very self congatuatilly in nature, which is why it needs to be read with a very critical analysis what it states to be factually true.
The most telling part of the report is to be found within the section Significant incidents by site.
This lists various problems at Devenport, Dungeness, Heysham, & Sellafield.
Nukiller Power, Capenhurst, and Brexit.
Amongst the various undesirable aspects of the Brexit deal is the following agreement for further cooperation on nukiller power.
This agreement continues to uphold the Treaty of Almelo, under which URENCO was established on the 4th of March 1970.
You can read the text of it here.
DRS Updates
On October 15th yet another DRS waste train was observed on the way to Torness. While on December 7th there were two flasks which arrived at Dungeness.
Framatome
Framatome is not a company which is very well know by many anti nukiller activists, but it is one which does need to receive much more of our attention.
Framatome is owned by the EDF Group (75.5%), Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI – 19.5%) and Assystem (5%).
Here are a couple of headline press releases which have been put out of late.
May 26, 2020 – Framatome signed a framework agreement with EDF in to provide engineering services to support ongoing nukiller power station operations.
December 7th 2020 – Rolls-Royce group signs agreement to sell its civil nuclear instrumentation & control business to Framatome
Forthcoming Events
Given the current restrictions on public transport, it is not possible to do much forward planning, or undertake any of our regular events.
However there are a few dates which we wish to highlight over the coming year.
– Fukushima Day – March 11th.
– The DRS Open Day – In July if it takes place at all.
– 64th Anniversary of the Windscale fire – October 10th.