SELLAFIELD NUCLEAR CLEAN-UP CONTRACT LOST

Private consortium Nuclear Management Partners (NMP) will be stripped of the £9bn contract to clean-up the nuclear waste site at Sellafield, the biggest and most complex nuclear site in Europe:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30785623

NMP has run the site for more than six years. The private consortium has been heavily criticised; both the Public Accounts Committee and the National Audit Office have accused NMP of overruns and delays. NMP's contract was extended for a further five years in 2013.

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA),  which awarded the contract, last year increased its estimate for cleaning up the UK's nuclear sites by 7% to £110bn over the next 120 years. The vast bulk of that relates to Sellafield.

Comment: This debacle illustrates the enormous costs, the timescale disappearing into the distant future, and the short-term profiteering of private consortia involved in the clean-up of the waste from nuclear power.

NUCLEAR WASTE STORAGE PLANT REJECTED

Shepway councillors have voted against 'formally expressing interest' in the government plan for a nuclear waste plant at Romney Marsh in Kent, near Dungeness nuclear power station.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-19656382

63% of local residents opposed the plan.
Both Kent County Council and East Sussex County Council also oppose this nuclear dump.

However, the Conservative council leader Robert Bliss will make a final decision later.

Remember Elstow ?

What has my previous post got to do with Bedfordshire?
Well, remember the low level nuclear waste disposal dump that NIREX tried to foist on Elstow, years ago? Many folk, including myself, campaigned furiously to stop it. We won. You never know, when we have sent the 'eco-town ' packing, they might even try to present us with a nuclear power station. After all, the government think nuclear power is eco-friendly .........