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12/12/2025

Stop Hinkley took their 2017 turkey out of cold storage in preparation to cook it for this Christmas 2025 but unfortunately EDF's promise of electricity being generated by HPC this Christmas has failed. The generation date had moved from 2017 to 2025 and has been moved again. 'Where is the lecce to cook the turkey EDF?' they asked!

It seems that there are not enough skilled workers to complete the HPC job which has had design problems despite supposedly learning from the mistakes at Olkiluoto in Finland, Flammanville in France and Taishan in China. The original workforce being 8,000 has now increased to 15,000 and still the start up date is up in the clouds.

The costs have escalated from £18 billion to current predicted costs of £46 billion pounds and rising. How is the country going to pay for this and all the other pie in the sky new nuclear builds that roll off the tongues of the fast turnover of politicians that have been involved? So far it has taken 10 prime ministers, starting with Mrs Thatcher, to partially build HPC. Not one of these will be accountable for the toxic high level radioactive waste that will be sat on the Severn Estuary coastline far into the future - 200 years and beyond - for our children's children to pay for and deal with. The level of radioactivity of the waste will be in total 80 percent of the radioactivity level currently of Sellafield. This fact alone will mean that Hinkley will be the Sellafield of the South.

Hinkley's design is currently in the news due to its intention of destroying more of our precious Severn Estuary fish and marine life in its massive cooling water intakes which will suck in an Olympic sized swimming pool of water every 20 seconds. EDF are faltering over their requirement to protect the fish with an Acoustic Fish Deterrent. Even so, this technology may save some of the fish, but the eggs and fry will pass into the cooling system and be destroyed by the heat and chemicals, which will then be pumped back out into the estuary.

The technology of nuclear is last century and is wasteful of energy. The steam process results in two thirds of the heat energy (6 Giga Watt) being pumped out into the estuary. Stop Hinkley continues to hold EDF to account, and will be watching, and will be back for the next predicted finish date of 2027 with their Christmas turkey

08/12/2025

It's NOT nature VS development ❌

Today the Severn Estuary Interests Group has issued a response to the Nuclear Regulatory Review to correct inaccuracies and explain the importance of protecting the Severn Estuary’s globally significant wildlife and habitats.

Read the full piece on our website: www.somersetwildlife.org/news/severn-estuary-interests-group-responds-nuclear-review-fingleton-report-challenging-misleading

26/11/2025

Does ‘fish disco’ show we’re dancing to the wrong tune on regulations? Hinkley Point C’s fish protections have been criticised as a waste of money but environmental charities said the outrage was manufactured. For the twaite shad of the Bristol Channel, it has been a strange few months. Ordinarily, few people bother with shad. Smallish, silverish, a little like a less charismatic herring, generally they are left alone. Not this year. Starting in May they have been tracked. They have been chipped. They have been played some really odd sounds. And now, as they somewhat bemusedly navigate what has become known as the Hinkley Point C fish disco, they have been presented to the prime minister as an exemplar of all that is wrong with our nuclear regulations. The Fingleton report on nuclear regulation is long and considered. Its 162 pages take in capital financing, nuclear risks and decommissioning obligations. But it was just a few paragraphs about fish that ended up catching the headlines. “Hinkley Point C will have more fish protection measures than any other power station in the world,” wrote John Fingleton, commissioned by the government to find ways to make nuclear cheaper. “It has spent £700 million on their design and implementation,” he said. The outcome on protected fish? “These measures would save 0.083 salmon per year, along with 0.028 sea trout, 6 river lamprey, 18 allis shad, and 528 twaite shad.” “The government’s propaganda machine is working overtime to perpetuate the false narrative that nature blocks development,” Joan Edwards, from the Wildlife Trusts, said. It is, she said, “confected outrage about a fish disco”. Every second it is running, Hinkley Point C, which is still under construction, will suck in 134 cubic metres of seawater. From three kilometres out, in the murky estuary, the water will rush along pipes towards the reactor. There, the cold waters of the Bristol Channel will meet the superheated waters of a steam turbine.

22/06/2025

A family of five say they are "panicking" after being given a no-fault eviction notice.

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