Nuclear Safety

Posted Sat, 26/03/2011 - 8:15pm by admin

Some introduction on nuclear safety.

Risks from nuclear waste transports

Posted Sun, 27/11/2011 - 1:21pm by DanV

'Stop Nuclear Trains through the Olympic Site and Stratford' - Public meeting organised by the Nuclear Trains Action Group, Stratford Advice Arcade, Saturday 18 June 2011

Presentation by Daniel Viesnik, Kick Nuclear

Why are we worried about nuclear waste trains passing through the Olympic site and the local area? This is due to the risk of a terrorist attack or accident.

Terrorist attack

Nuclear New Build and Hinkley – Important update from South-West Against Nuclear (SWAN) and Stop Nuclear Power Network (SNPN)

Posted Wed, 31/08/2011 - 1:03pm by DanV

Things are hotting up with the government and nuclear industry’s plans for nu-killer new build in Britain. If we want to put the brakes on their insane plans to build a fleet of new potential Fukushimas at up to eight sites around England and Wales, we need to get active TODAY!

BETTER ACTIVE TODAY THAN RADIOACTIVE TOMORROW!

Here are a few ideas for getting involved. We’re sure you’ll have more of your own: feel free to share and discuss!

Get informed

You’ll find a brief summary of where things are at with nuclear new build in Britain after the action suggestions below.

Speech for Nagasaki Day Ceremony in London by Kick Nuclear's Dan Viesnik

Posted Wed, 31/08/2011 - 12:55pm by DanV

Nagasaki Day Ceremony, Battersea Park Peace Pagoda, London
– Tuesday 9th August, 2011

Notes from speech by Dan Viesnik (Kick Nuclear and Trident Ploughshares)

- 66 years since manmade nuclear disasters at Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 5 months since nuclear disaster at Fukushima, the worst since Chernobyl, 25 years ago

- Russian ambassador to Japan, in Hiroshima for a ceremony to remember the annihilation of the city in 1945, said that while Hiroshima was a disaster caused by humans, the Fukushima nuclear crisis is “a disaster by natural causes.” [1]

Hinkley Company Admits Faults at 60% of French Nuclear Reactors

Posted Tue, 08/03/2011 - 12:00am by admin

Electricite de France, the energy company applying to build a third power station at Hinkley Point, has admitted safety weaknesses affecting 34 of the nuclear reactors it operates in France.

The “anomaly”, highlighted by the French state regulatory body Autorité de Sureté Nucleaire ( ASN ), means that if cooling water is lost from the reactor's primary pressure circuit, the back-up water injection safety system may not be able to prevent a meltdown of the core.

(Un)Safety

Posted Wed, 31/03/2010 - 11:00pm by admin

Nuclear power is not as safe as they want us to believe. Nuclear regula­tors from the UK, France and Fin­land sent a joint letter to Areva, the ma­kers of the European Pressurised Reactor (EPR), in Octo­ber 2009, about pro­blems with the design’s Control and Instrumentation (C&I) systems. One independent expert says the design suffers from serious safety flaws which could lead a mi­nor incident to develop into a severe accident. The French group Sortir du Nucléaire published leaked docu­ments showing the design pre­sents a serious risk of a major acci­dent.