#Nuclear waste "will take hundreds of thousands of years before the #radioactivity falls to normal, background levels" The @iaeaorg says there are "almost 400,000 tons of spent fuel with two-thirds remaining in temporary storage"
#StopSizewellC
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Abnormal loads are transported to and from Sizewell C site Everything from cranes and storage tanks are being transported along the A12 this week.

Welcome to our world....
#StopSizewellC
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Insane number of abnormal loads heading for #SizewellC next week - like 14 each day! Our advice, stay home...
Happy Easter (not)
#StopSizewellC
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Ministers’ call-in powers set to be expanded for councils determining nuclear projects

Paywall, but alarming sub-heading! "The government has proposed expanding Ministers' powers to intervene when local authorities are considering refusing #nuclear decommissioning projects and where housing is proposed close to nuclear sites"
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Suffolk shop owner's relief after new A12 roundabout completed The first of two new roundabouts constructed by Sizewell C has opened to road users.

Let's hope so, unless #SizewellC lorry numbers increase as rumours suggest?? "It's been a v difficult 9 months. We've seen reduced trade with so much road works...It has had a huge impact on us, but hopefully it starts to get back to normal"
#StopSizewellC
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From Russia without love: inside Putin’s grip on our nuclear power More than 2.5 million UK homes are powered by the Kremlin’s supply of nuclear fuel and western countries have found themselves trapped in long-term contracts

#Rosatom, which supplies uranium for #SizewellB "..is not just a #nuclear corporation. It is a Kremlin tool..sustaining Russia’s war machine" It's also been accused of complicity in the torture of employees at Ukraine's #Zaporizhzhia power plant.
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Most telling quote "I don't think [#SizewellC] understand the area at all" And as for their nonsensical reply that workers will add to spending, when everyone knows they are displacing visitors and don't spend the same way, well.....! 😡
#StopSizewellC
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New chief executive officer of Hinkley Point C Hartley will take up the role of CEO on 1 July, succeeding Stuart Crooks, who has spent 40 years in the nuclear industry.

New chief of #HinkleyC.... Poisoned chalice? Yep, pretty much
#SizewellC #StopSizewellC
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Sizewell C and Northern Powerhouse rail face official probes Probes into Sizewell C and Northern Powerhouse Rail have been lined up by a powerful parliamentary committee. The public accounts committee said the

A probe into #SizewellC by the Public Accounts Committee.... "would draw on National Audit Office work and would examine how departments were managing the cost, delivery and value-for-money risks attached to major projects"
#StopSizewellC
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@sayno2sizewellc.bsky.social: "Why was [#SizewellC's] flood-risk modelling restricted to 2140 when spent fuel would be on site beyond that date? Why was it based on [an assumption] that the protective sand bars…would remain intact the full lifetime?”
#StopSizewellC
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World's longest coastal path opens in England to the public The King Charles coastal path will allow walkers right of access to the entire coast for the first time.

Wonderful achievement, and something England can be proud of - shame about the bit round #SizewellC...
#StopSizewellC
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A UEA Geography student has contacted us, requesting responses from local people to a survey on #SizewellC's Community Engagement, for their dissertation. Deadline 3 April. If you want to take part, scan the QR code below or visit forms.office.com/e/v1wP9e9afv
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The troubled search for Britain’s deep sea nuclear waste graveyard A project to build a £53 billion storage facility 1km below the sea bed has been hampered by council rows, the wariness of local communities and budget cuts

"Nuclear Waste Services, charged with finding a suitable [#nuclearwaste] site, has warned of significant uncertainty since 2025’s spending review and further uncertainty over whether any community would remain committed to the project"
#StopSizewellC
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This pro-nuclear group claims to be 'grassroots'. So why are its directors industry lobbyists? Britain Remade has appointed two directors from a lobbying firm which represents EDF, the owner of Scotland’s last nuclear power station.

"Britain Remade is the apparently “grassroots” NGO push[ing] to overturn Scotland’s ban on #nuclear. But The Ferret has found two of its directors come from a firm [#Stonehaven] which lobbies for #EDF — prompting claims of “vested interests”
#StopSizewellC
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Government promises ‘proportionate’ nuclear regulation as it sets out steps to overhaul system | New Civil Engineer Ministers from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) said a package of reforms, drawn from the taskforce’s independent review, will cut

“Precious habitats – which fully deserve ‘gold-plating’ – will be lost forever while cost escalations and delays that have dogged the [#nuclear] industry will continue.” 2/2
#StopSizewellC
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Government promises ‘proportionate’ nuclear regulation as it sets out steps to overhaul system | New Civil Engineer Ministers from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) said a package of reforms, drawn from the taskforce’s independent review, will cut

#StopSizewellC “We believe these changes are bad news for communities, wildlife and safety. Coupled with new siting policies and planning rules, local people facing the prospect of new #nuclear will find themselves marginalised as never before" 1/2
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Miliband reveals plans that could mean nuclear power plants built near homes Changes to regulation to speed up development could also make it easier to build on sensitive nature sites

#EdMiliband has unveiled plans that could make it easier to build #nuclearwar power plants closer to homes and on sensitive #nature sites... However, ministers were quickly accused of “irresponsible deregulation” and putting nature at risk"
#StopSizewellC
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Fed up traffic protesters line road with 100 yellow metal rats Residents living along the B1125 between Walberswick and Middleton have created metal rats in Hi-Viz to signify concerns the road has become a rat…

"Fed-up communities living along a rural road have created metal rats in Hi-Viz vests to highlight their anger that #SizewellC workers and other vehicles are using their route as a "rat run".
#StopSizewellC
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Moment rattled Emmanuel Macron is confronted during nuclear summit This is the moment Emmanuel Macron was confronted by Greenpeace activists who accosted him on stage during a nuclear summit.

[Protestors] held banners with the #Greenpeace logo, '#Nuclear Power = Energy Insecurity' and 'Nuclear power fuels #Russia's war.' One of them shouted at #Macron 'Why are we still buying uranium from Russia?'
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Jenny Riddell Carpenter MP's OpEd, calling on the #energy developers to act as true custodians of #Suffolk's coastline, which must mean helping to support communities affected by coastal erosion, and help protect our coastline.
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Caravan owners claim Theberton site is 'cashing in' on Sizewell C They claim what was once

"[Cakes & Ale] was a really lovely holiday park, but it became shoddier and went downhill. There are [#SizewellC] work vans everywhere.....it was a real gem in #Suffolk, but it has now been destroyed. They are just cashing in, aren't they?"
#StopSizewellC
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Letter: Britain’s coastal erosion: see-saw on the seashore From Nicholas Malins-Smith, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK

"#Suffolk...has long known about coastal erosion. Most of the original town of #Dunwich was lost to the sea a very long time ago. The little left... is about 3.5 miles north of where #SizewellC #nuclear power station will be built"
N. Malins-Smith Camb. 2/2
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Our town fell to ruin when our local Pontins closed & we've lost out £100,000s A SEASIDE village has been “killed” after the local Pontins closed down and was taken over by workers building Britain’s first new nuclear plant in 30 years. Locals say the once-bustling Somerset r…

"A seaside village has been “killed” after Pontins closed and was taken over by workers building [#Hinkley] #nuclear plant... the once-bustling Somerset resort is a shadow of its former self after hundreds of construction staff moved in
#StopSizewellC
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How to Build the World’s Most Expensive Nuclear Power Plant Plus, the $44,000 bill that shows California’s insurance-market dysfunction.

WSJ: "Britain’s first new nuclear plant in three decades cemented its status as the most expensive on record anywhere....The stakes are high—[with] #SizewellC taxpayers will shoulder more of the burden if the project runs over budget.
#StopSizewellC
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Sizewell C power to cost almost double today’s prices Nuclear plant is an ‘appalling waste of electricity consumers’ and taxpayers’ money’, experts claim

#StopSizewellC: “#HinkleyC’s cost has soared to £50bn with completion dates slipping and five years still to go. #SizewellC’s MWh costs [to consumers] will rise higher still when it inevitably overruns its £40bn construction budget.”
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Stop the stupid idea that is Sizewell C!!!
#StopSizewellC

Rapid UK coastal erosion throws spotlight on £40bn nuclear plant More than 27 metres of cliff lost over a year in area just 2km from Sizewell C

Sir David King on how Britain is tilting into the sea on E because of erosion, amplifying effect of rising seas: “That’s the nature of the challenge we're all concerned about on the E coast - and around #SizewellC that clearly is a problem”
#StopSizewellC
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At least these #Leiston signs say WHERE road is closed & businesses are open but seriously @sizewellc do you really need to block whole carriageway? When lights are red & traffic waiting no one can pass. Guess @thebertonlion & @eelsfoot will lose customers anyway
#StopSizewellC

Cost of Hinkley Point C nuclear plant jumps again to nearly £50bn The rising cost — and a further delay to the completion date — will be seen as a blow to the UK’s energy security and an indictment of its infrastructure record

.@thetimes nails it. "The rising cost — and a further delay to [#HinkleyC's] completion date — will be seen as a blow to the UK’s energy security and an indictment of its infrastructure record" and "It does not augur well for #SizewellC..."
#StopSizewellC
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Hinkley Point C nuclear plant delayed to 2030 as costs climb to £35bn French utility company EDF says operations in Somerset will start a year later as delay costs firm €2.5bn

#EDF today says #HinkleyC's operation delayed another year (or two) to 2030/2031 and costs increased from £31-34bn [2015£] to £35-36bn - that's £50bn in today's money. Oh and #SizewellC paid £1.6bn to #HPC for its "expertise" (yes really!)
#StopSizewellC
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