tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32508469383589288332024-02-19T01:59:11.501+00:00Shepperdine Against Nuclear EnergyWe urge the government to consider the implications of rushing into a nuclear partnership at Shepperdine without doing proper due diligence on the potential new investors into the Horizon shell.
It should be offering solutions such as energy independence to the micro generators and not playing the whipping boy to trans national investors who decide to move their capital on a whim.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10920932914654906950noreply@blogger.comBlogger580125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3250846938358928833.post-43638665562380462872013-01-31T21:27:00.001+00:002013-01-31T21:27:20.880+00:00Energy Secretary Hayes is a Preposterous Buffoon<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Paul Flynn MP in the Commons today said Energy minister Hayes was a <b>"preposterous buffoon".</b></div>
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I think that's a fairly accurate description. Recall that Hayes has affirmed that God created the earth in 6 days and rested on the 7th.</div>
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When other MPs joshed him about it, he silenced all present by saying ...no, no, he really meant it.</div>
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We've all had to put up with pretty ill-informed Energy ministers in the past, but Hayes takes us to new levels ...he represents <i>la crême de la crême</i> of stupidity.</div>
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The team of NGO representatives will always met the new secretary last year and he told us in his bumptious arrogant way of how he came from a council estate in South London and we, as representatives are left wing softies!</div>
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Mr Hayes, I have voted conservative all but three times in my life, the other times I voted Natural Law..almost as bizarre as you, aNd lib dem twice! You are a disgrace to the free market allowing oligopoly energy companies subsidies.....you are the biggest left winger going.....</div>
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Greenpeace have just uploaded a film of David Cameron saying tat the nuclear waste issue must be solved before nuclear investment can take place.<br />
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Where does new nuclear go now?<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10920932914654906950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3250846938358928833.post-11919269781881502672013-01-30T14:43:00.000+00:002013-01-30T14:43:29.522+00:00Shadow cast over nuclear renaissance says Prospect Nucear workers union<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Yet another cock up by DECC!</span></div>
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You can't force communities to be volunteers no matter how much money you promise</div>
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Where does the withering nuclear industry go now?</div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By Becky Johnson, Sky News Correspondent</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Cumbria County Council has voted against proceeding with studies into the building of a £12bn underground nuclear waste site in the area.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Council leaders rejected a move to the next stage of studying a possible suitable site by seven votes to three.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There were huge cheers from environmental campaigners outside the council chamber in Carlisle when the decision was announced.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Earlier, leaders of Copeland borough councillors voted six to one in favour of moving to the next stage in the search for a site to bury radioactive waste.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If the site was given the go ahead it would have been the first of its kind in the UK.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Currently most nuclear waste is stored at Sellafield in Cumbria.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As councillors were meeting, protesters gathered to make their views heard.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Among them, many people who might have been affected argued that the process was unsafe.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Cumbria resident Miles Fielding told Sky News: "There are a number of people who are very anti the dump and very upset about the proposals.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There are already problems in the continent where there are nuclear dumps with leakage and known cancers occurring in the villages where the dumps are, so it's just not worth playing with."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Presenting a petition to the leader of Cumbria council on behalf of Radiation Free Lakeland, Ronald Stirzaker urged councillors to vote no.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Another resident, Colin Wales, asked councillors if any community could rule themselves out of the search by a referendum.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Also outside the meeting were people staging a demonstration in favour of the plans because of the jobs a new site would create.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Neil Armstrong, who works at Sellafield, told Sky News: "I'm not saying it's safe or unsafe... I think it'll bring prosperity to the area for a lot of years to come."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Garry Graham, deputy general secretary of Prospect, which represents 12,000 nuclear workers, said: "A decision not to proceed to the next stage of feasibility studies will take us straight back to the drawing board.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"The alternative to building a repository is not no radioactive waste, just continued surface storage. Therefore, the assessment of the scientific case for a geological disposal facility needs to weighed against the pros and cons of the alternatives.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"The next stage consists of experts conducting desk-based geological studies, compiling a waste inventory and discussions over the social and economic implications.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"It is still a long way from a green light for any excavation or exploratory groundwork.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Not only does the vote have vast implications for the economic wealth of West Cumbria, which relies so heavily on the nuclear industry for jobs and growth, it potentially casts a shadow over any nuclear renaissance in the UK."</span></div>
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(Reuters) - <a data-ls-seen="1" href="http://www.reuters.com/places/france" style="cursor: pointer; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Full coverage of France">France</a> has ordered special forces to protect uranium sites run by state-owned Areva in Niger as the threat of attacks on its interests rises after its intervention against rebels in Mali, a military source said on Thursday.</div>
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Paris launched air strikes and sent hundreds of soldiers into Niger's neighbor Mali this month to drive back al-Qaeda-linked rebels it said could turn the West African country into a base for international attacks.</div>
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The insurgents have threatened to hit French targets across the Sahel region in revenge and, days after the French assault, militants stormed a desert gas plant in Algeria and took hostages.</div>
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The military source confirmed a report in weekly magazine Le Point that special forces and equipment would be sent to Areva's uranium production sites in Imouraren and Arlit very quickly, but declined to go into further details.</div>
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Defense ministry officials declined to comment on the report and Areva said it did not talk about security issues.</div>
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Seven workers, including five French nationals, were kidnapped in Arlit by al Qaeda's north African arm AQIM in September 2010. It later released three of the hostages but four French citizens are still being held.</div>
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An official at the defense ministry said that for the moment Nigerien authorities had not yet approved the measure.</div>
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"It's true that the terrorist threat has increased today, but as far as I know there is no such agreement in place at the moment."</div>
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Areva, Niger's biggest single investor, has about 2,700 workers in Niger and is planning to start up a third mine in Imouraren.</div>
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The planned startup of production in Imouraren was delayed to 2013 or 2014 from 2012, following the kidnappings and a labor dispute.</div>
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A Niger army officer said that there were already security arrangements agreed with <span class="mandelbrot_refrag"><a class="mandelbrot_refrag" href="http://www.reuters.com/places/france?lc=int_mb_1001" style="cursor: pointer; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">France</a></span> since 2011 after the kidnappings in Arlit and they had been reinforced over time.</div>
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"We also have our counter-terrorism units in the Agadez region," he said. "For now, I don't know of a decision by the Nigerien government to allow French special forces to base themselves in the north."</div>
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An Areva spokeswoman said this month the French government had not asked the company to reduce staffing in Niger. She added Areva has an extensive security plan for its employees and that the plan has been reviewed by the French authorities.</div>
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Areva has been mining uranium in Niger for more than five decades and the country provides one third of the group's uranium supplies.</div>
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According to a parliamentary committee enquiring into France's supplies of uranium, about 18 percent of the raw material used to power France's 58 nuclear reactors came from Niger in 2008.</div>
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French utility EDF, that runs all of the country's power reactors declined to comment on the current share.</div>
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(Reporting by John Irish, Geert de Clercq, Muriel Boselli, Michel Rose in Paris and Abdoulaye Massalatchi in Niamey; Editing by Myra MacDonald)</div>
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Shepperdine Against Nuclear Energy , a key Non Governmental Organisation in the South Glos area will be represented by Reg Illingworth at the very important seminar detailed below.</div>
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Reg says "We want people to realise that the fuel poor in the UK will end up paying extortionate amounts of subsidy to Japanese companies"</div>
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"We are concerned about who Hitachi will partner as the operator in this venture at Oldbury? Will they be Chinese, Russian or from the Middle East, we really need to know this for safety locally and for Britains energy policy going forwards"</div>
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We will have a new banner in English and Japanese requesting that Hitcaci should not build another Fukushima in England </div>
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We will be meeting at around <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true">3pm</a> to allow for photo opportunities with members of our group and others concerned about new nuclear.</div>
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The future of the UK’s energy supply is very much in transition and the long awaited Energy Bill sets out the Government’s strategy, including a role for new nuclear. Will the impact of the Bill shift the economic risk of reactor construction from the nuclear corporations to the consumer? Will the Bill lead to issues of state aid and place the UK in contravention with the EU Electricity Directive? Or will this new market-based approach deliver certainty for energy investors and fairness for consumers?</div>
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The by invitation only seminar has cross-party sponsorship: from Alan Whitehead MP (Member, Energy and Climate Change Committee), Simon Hughes MP (Deputy Leader Lib-Dem Party), Dan Byles MP (Member, Energy and Climate Change Committee), Caroline Lucas MP (Member of Parliament's Environmental Audit Committee).</div>
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Co-hosted by The All Party Parliamentary Group on Climate Change (APPCCG) and the Nuclear Consulting Group (NCG), the event will hear expert opinion from:</div>
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• Hergen Haye, Head of New Nuclear & Strategy, DECC.</div>
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• Prof. Tom Burke CBE, Founding Director of E3G, Centre for Law and Environment, UCL.</div>
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• Dr. Nigel Knee, Head of Nuclear Policy, Nuclear New Build, EDF.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10920932914654906950noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3250846938358928833.post-47866865106401249862013-01-23T11:21:00.002+00:002013-01-23T11:21:28.348+00:00Gerry Wolff tells it as it is?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A subsidy for nuclear power and its unintended consequences</strong></span></h1>
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<em style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Poor people will pay for nuclear white elephants</em></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Gerry Wolff, <a href="http://www.energyfair.org.uk/" target="_blank">Energy Fair</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It makes no sense to build nuclear power stations that are not needed or to ask poorer people to foot the bill. But those are the likely effects of the Government’s proposal to include nuclear power amongst the technologies that will be eligible for subsidy in the form of a "contract for difference" (CfD).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">That kind of subsidy—which provides a long-term guaranteed price for electricity—is a good way to support renewables that are still finding their feet commercially (although some would prefer a simple feed-in tariff). With nuclear power, things are different. It is a mature technology that should not require any subsidy, the Government has said repeatedly that it will not subsidise nuclear power, <a href="http://www.energyfair.org.uk/oppcost" target="_blank">there are cheaper and faster ways of cutting emissions and ensuring security of energy supplies</a>, and <a href="http://www.mng.org.uk/nsubsidies" target="_blank">nuclear power is already heavily subsidised</a>. As applied to nuclear power, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16646405" target="_blank">CfD may be unlawful under EU laws designed to promote fair competition between businesses</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But the nub of the problem to be described is that electricity markets are changing and that nuclear power plants are notoriously slow to build. Given that no decision has yet been made to build any new nuclear plant in the UK, that there is a lead time before any construction can start, and that <a href="http://www.mng.org.uk/gh/nn.htm#speed" target="_blank">it can take 7 years or more to build a nuclear plant</a>, it is unlikely that any new nuclear plant could be completed before 2020. A lot can happen between now and then.</span></div>
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Domestic consumers and businesses of all sizes will be empowered to generate much of their own electricity or to buy it from anywhere in Europe.</div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It is likely, first, that, by 2020, renewables will be much more affordable than they are now. For example, <a href="http://www.epia.org/index.php?eID=tx_nawsecuredl&u=0&file=/uploads/tx_epiapublications/Competing_Full_Report.pdf&t=1358861027&hash=e725c3b460f36ea75f28170ce8750b4032ef191d" target="_blank">a report by the European Photovoltaics Industry Association</a> shows that, because of rapidly falling prices, photovoltaics (PV) are likely to become a competitive source of electricity in the UK by 2019, without subsidies—not just for householders paying domestic retail prices but also for wholesale generators and large commercial and industrial consumers.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Greg Barker MP, Minister of State for Climate Change, <a href="http://m.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/08/ministers-defend-solar-power-subsidy-cut?cat=environment&type=article" target="_blank">has said</a> "There is the potential for solar power to become competitive with fossil fuels without subsidy within the lifetime of this parliament [ie before May 2015]. Solar has gone from being one of the most expensive forms of renewable energy to one of the cheapest."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In sunnier countries like Spain, Italy, and Greece, PV will become competitive earlier, perhaps this year.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Secondly, it is likely that <a href="http://www.globe-net.com/articles/2011/february/2/european-energy-giants-call-for-eu-single-energy-market/?sub" target="_blank">the long-awaited European internal market for electricity will be completed</a> (a development that the Government supports), bottlenecks in transmission will be eased and, more generally, <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/energy/infrastructure/strategy/2020_en.htm" target="_blank">the European transmission grid will be stronger</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">These and related developments will transform the electricity market in the UK. Domestic consumers and businesses of all sizes will be empowered to generate much of their own electricity or to buy it from anywhere in Europe. Paradoxically, the CfD subsidy for nuclear power will provide an added incentive for consumers to reduce their dependence on UK nuclear power from UK traditional suppliers, since the subsidy will be paid for via a surcharge to consumers’ bills.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">PV has the attraction that it is quick and simple to install, it generates electricity in the daylight hours when demand is high, and there are no worries about rising prices of electricity, or <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/dec/09/energy-suppliers-complaints-consumer-focus" target="_blank">poor service from electricity suppliers</a>. When electricity from PV is as cheap or cheaper than electricity from the grid, there is likely to be an explosive growth in the market, both for domestic consumers and for large commercial and industrial consumers. IKEA, Apple, Google and Facebook are already investing in their own solar generating plants.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">With other developments—such as consumers generating their own electricity using combined-heat-and-power (a technology that is already available to both <a href="http://www.britishgas.co.uk/products-and-services/boilers-and-central-heating/new-boilers/boiler-and-heating-range/baxi-ecogen.html" target="_blank">householders</a>and companies in the UK), ownership of wind farms by community groups and businesses (<a href="http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/about_ikea/newsitem/uk_renewable_energies" target="_blank">IKEA already has its own wind farm</a>), the use of highly-efficient LED lighting (<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16199552" target="_blank">which is expected to be widespread by 2015</a>), and the option to buy cheap solar electricity from sunny countries or wind power, geothermal power, or other renewable kinds of power from anywhere in Europe—most consumers can, with advantage, be largely independent of traditional suppliers in the UK. In short, much of the market for nuclear electricity in the UK is likely to disappear.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Much of the market for nuclear electricity in the UK is likely to disappear.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In a rational world, investors would assess these predictable features of the UK market for electricity in the coming years and decide that <a href="http://www.mng.org.uk/gh/private/risks_of_nuclear_investment.pdf" target="_blank">it would not be sensible to put money into the building of new nuclear plants</a>. But the proposed CfD could lead us into a very expensive, wasteful and unjust alternative scenario.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Given the large up-front costs of nuclear power, any company or consortium that is considering building a new nuclear plant in the UK will need to know, before any investment decision is made, what the guaranteed price (the ‘strike’ price) of their electricity will be, and they will need a contract to ensure that that guaranteed price, with adjustments for inflation, will still be available when the plant is completed, and for many years thereafter.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Government appears to recognise this requirement, although it seems unlikely that investors will be satisfied with anything short of a legally-binding contract, since the government in 2020 will be different from what it is now. Here, the meaning of “legally-binding" is somewhat qualified since the subsidy may be withdrawn at any time via a ruling by the European Commission or the European Court of Justice, and in that case it is likely that any money that has been paid to nuclear operators via CfD will have to be repaid.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Let us assume that, about 2014, work starts on the building of a nuclear plant on the strength of a contract to deliver electricity from about 2021, at a guaranteed price that reflects market conditions in 2014, and for a period which some say could be as long as 35 years [1]. Then it is likely that the subsidy will be paid at a relatively high rate for many years for large amounts of electricity that no one wants. <a href="http://tomburke.co.uk/2012/05/28/hinkley-and-sizewell-will-cost-us-155-billion-over-30-years-under-the-cfd/" target="_blank">It has been calculated</a>that, for just two new nuclear power stations (at Hinkley Point and Sizewell), the cost of the subsidy would be at least £5 billion/year.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">That is not only extremely expensive and wasteful but it is also very unfair because the subsidy will be paid via the bills of the relative handful of consumers that are still receiving most of their electricity from traditional suppliers—and these will be mainly poorer people that cannot afford the up-front cost of generating their own power.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It may be argued that similar things can be said about renewables. The first point here is that, in general, renewables can be built much faster than nuclear power stations. This means that there is much less opportunity for the market to change between when a subsidy is awarded and when the generating plant comes on stream. The second point is that each new contract will normally be for a much smaller generating capacity than a nuclear plant. A succession of relatively small contracts allows the level of subsidy to be progressively adjusted to reflect the market conditions at the time.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It may also be argued that if any new nuclear plant proved to be redundant, it could serve as a backup source of power. But nuclear plants are quite unsuitable for this purpose because they cannot easily be turned on and off. A much cheaper and better way of providing backup supplies of power is to keep some old but still serviceable gas-fired plants in reserve, together with a strategic reserve of biogas or biomethane.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.energyfair.org.uk/pren" target="_blank">There is now much evidence that renewables can provide abundant, economical, diverse, secure, responsive, and clean supplies of power</a>, and with none of <a href="http://www.mng.org.uk/gh/nn.htm" target="_blank">the problems with nuclear power</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.energyfair.org.uk/no-subsidies" target="_blank">There is no justification of any kind for subsidising nuclear power</a> and there is every reason to ensure that nuclear power is not on the list of technologies that would be eligible for support via the CfD. We may thus avoid what would otherwise be the considerable risk of creating nuclear white elephants that would be paid for mainly by consumers that are least able to afford them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">[1] It is reported that David Simpson, global head of mergers and acquisitions at KPMG, has said that he expects the UK government to offer 35-year contracts for nuclear power plants (see “<a href="http://profeng.com/news/questions-over-funding-for-nuclear-expansion" target="_blank">Questions over funding for nuclear expansion</a>", Professional Engineering, 2011-10-03).</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10920932914654906950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3250846938358928833.post-28342321020474409142012-11-28T15:58:00.000+00:002012-11-28T15:58:00.786+00:00Eat, drink and we start building!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It is not surprising what this government will do to cosy up to a big foreign investor to get some business for their pals in the nuclear industry.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10920932914654906950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3250846938358928833.post-51413124163319059642012-11-28T12:49:00.004+00:002012-11-28T12:49:53.732+00:00Shock Horror!! Sellafield is a nuclear slum!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The NDA taliban and their cohorts of money grabbing associates are stiffing the British tax payer yet again.</div>
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Imagine how much money we could save if we got rid of all of the nuclear legacy accruing from the 1950s to date, we are talking billions.....</div>
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Sadly, we are like addicts in a never ending cycle that we can't get out of and yet we want to take more of it on....its like the Mad Hatters Tea Party.</div>
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End the insanity now!</div>
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Sellafield branded a 'nuclear slum'</h1>
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AN MP has branded Sellafield a cross between science fiction and a nuclear slum.</div>
"And it's probably the biggest nuclear slum in Europe," claimed Yorkshire TV personality Austin Mitchell, now Labour MP for Great Grimsby.<br />Mr Mitchell was among the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee MPs who yesterday gave nuclear bosses a two hour grilling over Sellafield's spiralling project costs, big salaries and potential risks.<br />The committee monitors public spending and wants to know whether Sellafield has wasted taxpayers money.<br />For the full story see tomorrow's edition of the Evening Mail</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10920932914654906950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3250846938358928833.post-49549586360542828312012-11-27T13:30:00.001+00:002012-11-27T13:30:38.978+00:00Hinkley and Sizewell Unite!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong><em>Waste of Our Future</em></strong></div>
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<strong><em>We are now hearing that EDF are trying to cobble a deal with some Chinese companies to get the deal to progress?</em></strong></div>
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<strong><em>What is happening!!!</em></strong></div>
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<strong><em>Centrica are on the way out, Hitachi are 5 years away from even getting their reactor through the GDA.</em></strong></div>
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<strong><em>The government should give up on this failed post war technology that is sucking all of the low carbon investment</em></strong></div>
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At 6:45am this morning campaigners opposing nuclear new build blockaded the entrance to EDF’s Sizewell facility in Suffolk limiting access to the site by visitors to the site. This is the second time in three days that EDFs nuclear facilities have been targeted by activists, following hot on the heels of Friday’s dawn Blockade at Hinkley Point in Somerset.<br />
EDF began their Consultation on the 21 Nov, and the public have just eleven weeks (until the 6<sup>th</sup> Feb 2012) to wade through the 342 pages of consultation documents. The glossy Brochures encourage us to play an ‘active’ role in the consultation, so here we are. Said mom Nikki Clark, “The government’s energy policy and changes to the planning system are pre-emptively denying people the opportunity to raise their legitimate concerns about nuclear power. This makes acts of civil disobedience extremely important as without this there is no other way to raise these issues.” She went on to say “If the process already underway at Hinkley Point in Somerset where I live is anything to go by, then the public here at Sizewell can expect a sham process which is nothing more than a cynical box-ticking exercise designed to allow EDF to claim that they have ‘listened’ to people’s concerns. The new process that the government has introduced to ‘fast-track new nuclear’ is totally undemocratic and therefore, illegitimate.<br />
On Friday the government announced that “they have reached a landmark agreement on energy policy that will send a durable signal to investors”<sup>1</sup> so that they can introduce the Energy Bill next week however most commentators believe that The Electricity reform Act is more about subsidising new nuclear that it is about subsidising ‘low carbon technology, the proof (if any were needed) lies in the fact that the governments proposals as they stand will hamstring genuinely renewable projects<sup>2</sup>.<br />
On-shore wind would only require a strike price of around £80 per megawatt hour compared to the minimum ‘strike’ price of around £165 per MW/h that would be needed to subsidise new nuclear build. This would not be the only ‘<em>subsidy-that-isn’t-a-subsidy</em> ‘ that nuclear power would require. Said Mell Harrison, Education Director at a local Eco-centre “The biggest ‘<em>subsidy-that-isn’t-a-subsidy</em>’ that this industry will receive will be the one that comes in the form of highly toxic radioactive waste legacy they plan to store on-site at new build facilities. The cost of these subsidies will be borne by our grandchildren both physically and economically in around sixty years time when EDF get to leave the waste where it is and return ‘custody’ of it to our grandchildren. This will be in the form of highly dangerous waste that will require a <strong>minimum</strong> of a further hundred years cooling in-situ before anyone can even begin to think about packaging it for any further ‘storage’<sup>3</sup><br />
Said local campaigner Helen Swanston “Most people around here don’t realise that EDF were given the go ahead recently to build a dry storage facility to house the backlog of 1,466 tonnes of radioactive waste that is accumulating on site. The reason for this accumulation is because the technocrats of yester-year promised that the ‘waste issue’ would be resolved ‘in the future’ making fantastic promises about magical disposal facilities that would materialise in the not too distant future. These are the same empty promises that todays technocrats and politicians are making to us now. We are no closer now to any kind of interim storage facility let alone any kind of final resting place for nuclear waste.” The government’s so-called policy of voluntarism has seen only one set of local authorites even consider ‘volunteering’ and even they seem to have cold feet having deferred any decision to get involved until January of next year.<sup>4</sup> EDF plan to create 3500 tonnes of waste from their twin EPR reactors <sup>5</sup></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10920932914654906950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3250846938358928833.post-729289775801788272012-11-27T09:37:00.000+00:002012-11-27T09:37:18.631+00:00NGO recent meeting with Comare<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
As we are all aware low doses of radiation can cause significant problems as potentially shown in the KIKK study from Germany.<br />
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Lowry<span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>Nuclear
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Fisher<span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>3KQ
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Purpose<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This meeting was organised by the DECC Nuclear NGO Forum in
light of COMARE’s 14<sup>th</sup> Report. The purpose of the meeting was to:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1. Explore methodological differences and different
approaches to assessing leukaemia clusters around nuclear power plants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2. Identify whether NGOs and DECC have other related issues
they want to discuss or put on the agenda in future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Relevant documents<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">COMARE 14<sup>th</sup> Report: Further
consideration of the incidence of childhood leukaemia around nuclear power
plants in Great Britain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">COMARE statement on responses following
publication of the 14<sup>th</sup> Report.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Joint Paper for DECC meeting on COMARE
14th Report by Dr Ian Fairlie and Dr Alfred Körblein: October 18, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cancer near nuclear reactors: a
possible radiobiological explanation (Alfred Körblein).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Letter to International Journal of
Cancer (IJC): French geocap study confirms increased leukemia risks in young
children near nuclear power plants (Alfred Körblein/Ian Fairlie).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Kaatsch P, Spix C, Schulze-Rath R,
Schmiedel S, Blettner M. Leukaemia in young children living in the vicinity of
German nuclear power plants. Int J Cancer. 2008 Feb 15;122(4):721-6.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bithell JF, Keegan TJ, Kroll ME, Murphy
MF, Vincent TJ. Childhood leukaemia near British nuclear installations:
methodological issues and recent results. </span><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Radiat Prot Dosimetry. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2008;132(2):191-7. Epub 2008 Oct 20. Review. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The expert panel for the meeting consisted of three members
of COMARE (Professor Alex Elliott (COMARE chair), Mr Ian Robinson, and
Professor Richard Wakeford), alongside Dr. Ian Fairlie and Dr. Alfred Körblein
for the NGO panel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Carl Reynolds, the facilitator for the day, explained that
the meeting would centre on a panel discussion, alongside questions and
discussion from attendees. He suggested the meeting should be undertaken with a
spirit of enquiry rather than interrogation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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attributed, and it was confirmed there would be no audio or visual recording of
the meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The notes below provide a summary of
the key issues and responses raised throughout the meeting, in an attributed
form as agreed by all attendees. Suggestions for future research or other
activities are boxed out for ease of reference. The COMARE 14 report (</span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://www.comare.org.uk/press_releases/documents/COMARE14report.pdf"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.comare.org.uk/press_releases/documents/COMARE14report.pdf</span></span></i></a></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">) contains a
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hergen Haye and Andy Blowers, co-chairs of the DECC Nuclear
NGO Forum, were invited to open the meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Andy Blowers reminded the group that there had been
considerable discussion about health at the main forum and that, as a result it
was felt it would be useful to try and establish a meeting with COMARE to
discuss the KiKK report and the COMARE 14 report. He hoped for a constructive
exchange and engagement, taking into account the different areas of the debate,
and moving on to more general discussion about other related issues. He also
asked that everyone participate fully and thanked the experts for attending.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hergen
Haye added his thanks to the panel for taking part. He pointed out that nuclear
is a key part of policy for DECC, including decommissioning, operations of
existing plants and new build. He added that the NGO forum has been running for
two years and that DECC places a great deal of value on it. Finally, he added his
wish that the meeting be approached with a spirit of enquiry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Key areas of critique for COMARE 14<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Critique. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Discussions began with an invitation to Ian Fairlie and
Alfred Körblein to talk about the key issues in their critique of the COMARE 14
report.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this meeting, recognising the amount of work that had gone into it. He noted
the importance of a spirit of enquiry and openness rather than confrontation,
but also the need to acknowledge points of difference. He then summarised the
key points of his joint paper with Alfred Körblein as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Data coverage and timescales: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Failure to update the data is a key methodological concern.
After the KiKK study the Department of Health asked COMARE to get more data.
COMARE did not, saying this would have entailed a delay in the analysis. After
three years, another year would make little difference. It is understandable
that later years are difficult to analyse satisfactorily, but it is not
impossible. COMARE should have been able to overcome these difficulties and
provide a more up to date study.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nature of the statistical test:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> A two-sided (or two-tailed) rather than a one-sided (or
single-tailed) test was used.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Addition of lymphomas: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">COMARE
was asked to look at leukaemia, but other forms not in the original Bithell
study, such as non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas (NHL), were introduced, making analysis
more difficult due to introduction of different end points.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Categorical test: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">COMARE
should have carried out a categorical test.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Associations between nuclear power
plant proximity and leukaemia. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Alfred
Körblein outlined four post-KiKK studies, including recent studies in France
and Switzerland, together with a German study based on the same data as the
KiKK study, and the data from COMARE 14. He stated a combined analysis of the
four studies finds a highly significant increase in the 5km zone compared to
the rest of the study region. He concluded that, although there is no commonly
accepted explanation, this shows there is in fact an increase of leukaemiasnear
nuclear power plants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">COMARE response to
critique. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Alex Elliott responded to the first
issue regarding data with the following points, including some initial
background about COMARE’s work:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">COMARE was set up as a result of the
Black Report (following a Yorkshire Television documentary in 1983 focussing on
Windscale) and its first report was produced in around seven months. It has
written a number of reports about leukaemia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Earlier than the KiKK study was
COMARE’s 11<sup>th</sup> report, which was concerned with the increase of
leukaemia and other childhood cancers and looked at the pattern across the
whole of the UK. Simultaneously, COMARE was looking at the situation around
nuclear power plants through the publication of COMARE 10.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In light of the KiKK study, COMARE was
asked to look again and consider the KiKK report itself. This included a
request to redo the analysis for COMARE 10 using extended data, but only data
to 2004 were used as that was the last year for which reliable data existed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Compared to other European Cancer
registries the UK Childhood Cancer Register is unique; it crosschecks against
at least three sources rather than just one. The early German Cancer Register
relied solely on notification from paediatric oncologists. In the UK it comes
from the National Cancer Registry, Cancer Research and individual cancer
registries, with the database being held in Oxford by the Childhood Cancer
Research Group. A confirmed diagnosis comes from multiple sources, so there is
reasonable confidence that all of the UK cases are captured. However, this
means it takes longer to get data in the UK as it is so rigorously checked.
COMARE could have waited a year to get the 2005 data crosschecked but that
would have delayed the report. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bithell data. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ian Fairlie questioned if the Bithell study, which came out
in 2008, had data up to 2004, why COMARE 14 could not go up to 2008. Alex
Elliott clarified that the COMARE 14 was written in 2010. He also stated that
through the Department of Health COMARE has secured funding to ensure the
database is still getting updated and that data are currently up to 2010.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Site-specific
analysis. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Alex Elliott also confirmed that COMARE
is currently working on further analysis around the Dounreay and Sellafield
sites. In response to a question from Rita Holmes (ARM), he also confirmed that
this work would include analysis of the Dounreay cluster from the 1980s
retrospectively based on validated cases.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ruth
Balogh (West Cumbria and North Lakes Friends of the Earth) asked why it has
taken so long for the analysis of Dounreay and Sellafield data to be
undertaken, given that it is a long gap between 1987 and 2012. In response to
this, Alex Elliott agreed and outlined that there had been difficulties with
the Data Protection Act. Specifically, discussions are underway with the
National Information Governance Board and the Information Commissioner’s Office
over use of data from the 1987 Seascale school cohort study.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Do additional data matter? </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On the wider issue of extra data, Alfred Körblein suggested
that whether or not more data were included would not change the main result,
given the small number of additional cases. When asked why this had been one of
the criticisms of the COMARE report if it would not make a difference, he
responded that it would increase the power of the study but not the result. He
added that practically all nuclear power plants in the UK are on the coast so
only a semicircle of population can be investigated, whereas in Germany they
tend to be inland, which gives more powerful results, so that in the UK you
don’t need to see the data to know that you would not get such significant
results.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Why not delay the
report?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> David Lowry (NWAA) noted that COMARE
were asked to extend the time period but that COMARE says it “was judged that
delay was undesirable”. He asked whether the Secretary of State for Health was
satisfied that time periods were not extended, and from who’s point of view was
the delay “undesirable”?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Elliott clarified that COMARE was not asked to extend the time, rather to
extend the analysis of COMARE 10, which they did. He confirmed that the
Department of Health was very happy with the report technically, but that the
objective was to provide a report to the Department of Health in the shortest
possible time, so COMARE used the data available rather than waiting another
year. Stuart Conney (Department of Health) added that the Department was keen
to understand if the KiKK study would be reflected in the UK.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Addition of lymphomas<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">COMARE response to critique. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In response to this element of the critique, Alex Elliott
pointed towards COMARE 14, which states that in earlier reports there were a
couple of cases that turned out not to be leukaemia. He said that clinical
diagnosis of leukaemia has changed over the years and that in COMARE 14 early
cases of non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas were sometimes classed as leukaemia, which
means uncertainty over whether early cases were leukaemia or non-Hodgkin’s
lymphomas. In response to this COMARE undertook a combined analysis and also
sub-divided the categories out in order to be more consistent, after receiving
advice from two independent epidemiologists not connected to COMARE. This was
consistent with COMARE 10.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nature of the statistical test<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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critique. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Richard Wakeford responded to the
criticism that COMARE 14 should have used a one- rather than two-sided
statistical test as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The equivalent to a one-sided test is a
95% confidence interval and two sided would be a 90% confidence interval, but
people are tending to move away from tests of statistical significance and
confidence intervals. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It depends on the view you have of the
test you are carrying out before you carry it out. If you were looking for an
increase you would go for a one-sided test. If you were looking for a
difference in either direction you would go for a two-sided test. But this
should not make any material difference to any conclusion of substance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Statistical
confidence or public confidence? </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There
followed a discussion between Nikki Clark (Stop Hinkley) and Richard Wakeford
about the relative importance of statistical confidence and public confidence.
Namely, the concern that health issues (particularly ones like this) arguably
require a higher level of confidence and thus a tighter statistical test
because of the potential implications, contrasted with the argument that
statistical tests only give an indication of whether something is going on and
that becoming more confident statistically does not necessarily mean there is
really something going on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Richard
Wakeford acknowledged the point that public confidence is based on the data you
put out, but also suggested this was only one aspect of judging confidence; for
example data may have very high levels of confidence but the study itself may
be flawed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Choosing which
test to use. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In order to provide an example of why
the KiKK study tested one- not two-sided, Alfred Körblein pointed towards a
German study. An initial study, covering 1980-1990, found a significant effect:
a threefold increase in leukaemia rates in under-fives in the 5km zone. This
triggered a second study, which included five more years to 1995 but had no
significant result (p-value was 0.06) as it used a two-sided not a one-sided
test. If it was one-sided it would have been significant (p-value 0.03).<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>Richard Wakeford challenged the idea
that it makes a difference if the p-value is 0.03 or 0.06, pointing out that
the KiKK study gives the same result whether you do a one sided or two sided
test, but that there are more fundamental issues with the KiKK study than this.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ian
Fairlie recalled a number of incidents where the choice of test has lead to a conclusion
of ‘no increase’ when the conclusion should have been ‘there is an increase but
there is a less than 5% chance it is significant’. He added that he hoped after
today that a one-tailed test would be used as a standard in future studies.
Richard Wakeford again challenged this, stating that it depends on the question
to be answered and that if a conclusion depends on whether a test is one-sided
or two-sided there should not be much weight put on that conclusion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A large part of the day was spent discussing the issue of
causal relationships – i.e. whether an association between nuclear power plants
and increased leukaemia could be shown to have a causal relationship or not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Visitor data. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jo Brown (PCAH) asked whether studies took into account, for
example, the high numbers of visitors to Somerset each year and the potential
for this to have a causal link with the high incidence of leukaemia in one part
of Birmingham. Richard Wakeford responded that these are very intensive studies
to conduct but that you can do them in theory. Jo Brown added that, in order to
pick up on latency issues in cancer incidences, DNA tests to pick up heritable
genetic mutations could be undertaken on everybody.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SUGGESTION:
Consider looking at visitor data and its relationship to leukaemia incidence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Causality or random distribution? </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Chris Mitchell (COMARE) recalled that, in over 30 years
looking after children with leukaemia, many parents have asked about clusters.
He suggested that clusters do occur randomly from time to time, but equally
that if you threw a handful of rice onto a checked tablecloth you would be
surprised to see one grain in each square. He stated that the reliability of
the UK data made it difficult to compare it with that of other countries.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nuclear power plant as cause or
coincidence? </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Andy Blowers summarised the issue by
stating that, although everyone in the room knew there was an association
between nuclear power plant location and occurrence of leukaemia, the issue was
whether we could rule out the nuclear power plant as a cause of these
clusters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He pointed out the range of
variables that needed to be taken into account, e.g. plant size, emission type/
timing, weather patterns, coastal locations of UK sites, population movements,
and so on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Emission spikes. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ian Fairlie talked attendees through the possibility that
emission spikes from nuclear power plants could be a cause of increased
leukaemia, summarising:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">None of the current theories on
increased leukaemia cases near nuclear power plants have really addressed the
central evidence of the KiKK study and other studies, that this has something
to do with nuclear power plants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The main source of radiation from these
plants is from the radioactive discharges. Recently released information in
Bavaria shows that, contrary to previous thoughts that discharges were even,
there were rather large spikes of emissions from nuclear power plants, for
example up to half of annual discharge due to a refuelling episode.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In Britain the National Dose Assessment
Working Group prepared a guidance on this and their estimation was that doses
from these spikes would increase by a factor of about 20 over ‘normal’ doses
(other German studies show up to factor of 100), although this depends on a
number of things such as weather and population patterns.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ian Fairlie’s article in the Journal of
International Journal on Occupational and Environmental Health hypothesises
these leukaemias arise before the child is born from in utero exposures. This
stems from the work of Alice Stewart; in a survey of childhood cancers she
found women exposed to abdominal x-rays have a risk of childhood leukaemia when
born.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dose response
curve. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Alfred Körblein outlined his theory
relating to the dose response curve, with key points as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When comparing the effects of radiation
emitted from nuclear power plants to background radiation we think that the
average dose reported by utilities is distributed evenly across the year. They
usually report total annual emissions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Real data show spikes during refuelling
up to 500 times the routine emissions, for example one third of the total
annual emissions in only two days from one site.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If the dose response curve were linear,
it wouldn’t matter if the doses were emitted in short periods of time or not.
But if the dose response curve is non-linear or superlinear you cannot average
that and you have to look at the emission pattern. That’s the question – is
dose response known or not known?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Looking at data of perinatal mortality
in Germany after the Chernobyl accident, a non-linear dose response was found –
a steep increase with dose with approximately a power of dose of three. Also
data of congenital malformations from Bavaria following Chernobyl showed a
strongly upward curved dose response relationship.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If the dose response rate is
curvilinear then that could explain the observed increases. Dose estimates have
a high uncertainty and there may be certain systematic underestimating of dose.
Allowing for a systematic underestimation of dose by a factor of say 10 and
allowing for a lognormal distribution for the form of the dose response, this
would explain observed increases.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">COMARE’s remit and
wider causative mechanisms. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Alex
Elliott suggested that all incidences of leukaemia rather than just those
around nuclear power plants needed to be considered when looking at causes,
pointing towards clusters of leukaemia nowhere near nuclear power plants across
the world (for example in Nevada) or at sites where a nuclear power plant was
planned but never built. He referenced the Gardner study, which also found
associations with farming and the iron/steel industry, as well as other
theories about infection, population mixing and so on. He stressed the need for
COMARE to retain an open mind on causative mechanisms and pointed out that
COMARE is currently continuing to study ionising radiation but that its remit
is also extending to look at other potential causes. He also confirmed that
COMARE has opened discussions with colleagues in France and Germany and will
take forward a tri-national study.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ian Fairlie argued that a clear association between nuclear
power plants and leukaemia is beyond reasonable doubt, questioning why COMARE
is not ready to accept this view. However Alex Elliott reiterated that COMARE
has an open mind and is taking forward work on ionising radiation as well as
considering non-radiation factors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Concern about COMARE’s extended remit was expressed by Nikki
Clark (Stop Hinkley). Although not disagreeing that leukaemia needs to be
studied as a disease, she was concerned about COMARE taking this on, suggesting
that other work should be conducted by the Department of Health or other
bodies. She also expressed concerned that COMARE’s position seemed to be
defending the industry and that by deflecting the critiques of hypotheses put
forward COMARE was not inspiring confidence in its own work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Alex
Elliott again stated that COMARE’s primary remit is indeed to look at radiation
and that they would not divert from that task, but that it could also expand to
look at other aspects. It was confirmed that the Department of Health or the
devolved administrations determine COMARE’s work programme, with COMARE
deciding only how to deliver it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Views on causative
mechanisms and dose response from COMARE. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
response to discussions so far, Richard Wakeford talked about current evidence
and the need to continue looking at the bigger picture. His key points were as
follows:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Oxford Survey of Childhood Cancers
data is an important set of data. Examining this and similar data from around
the world is important in showing us that we aren’t getting things drastically
wrong in terms of dose and response.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For example, atmospheric nuclear
weapons testing put enormous quantities of radionuclides into the environment –
much greater than Fukushima or Chernobyl. Studies of low level exposure to
radiation – CT scans, natural background radiation – are coming out with risk
per unit dose estimates compatible with Hiroshima and Chernobyl. If the bomb
tests were in some way responsible for a high risk of childhood leukaemia you
would expect to see a large signal of that in late 1960s – you do not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This evidence has been assessed by a
lot of sceptical scientists over around 30 years and it is difficult to see how
this can be put at the door of ionising radiation exposure, although Körblein
and Fairlie’s letter in the International Journal of Cancer is important.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The bigger picture also needs to be
borne in mind. The amount of evidence that infection is involved in child
leukaemia is substantial. Deep genome sequencing is progressing, and a number
of groups are looking for specific viruses in children with leukaemia. Looking
at ionising radiation is important but we should not lose sight of other
potential causes as this risks missing a large part of the causes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Brown (PCAH) commented that she was concerned incidences in perinatal mortality
had not been taken into account.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Looking for a point source. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Alfred Körblein pointed out that many hypotheses do not
consider the fact that this effect is concentrated on the 5km zone and is not
found beyond the 5km zone, which suggests the effects of a point source.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How much evidence
is needed? </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Peter Lanyon (Shut Down Sizewell)
questioned what evidence COMARE would need before the precautionary principle
required it to declare that nuclear power plants were an issue. Alex Elliott
responded that more evidence than COMARE currently has would be needed, and
also mentioned the dangers of HARKING (hypothesising after the results are
known). He confirmed COMARE would be looking for a study with more power than
those currently undertaken.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Chris
Mitchell (COMARE) added that the numbers show there were 20 cases of leukaemia
in children under 5 around nuclear power plants in 1969 to 2004 – six above expected
numbers – and in the same time period 6500 children in the rest of the UK had
leukaemia. He commented that there are plenty of reasons for these cases other
than radiation and, whilst it is important for COMARE to look at radiation,
maintaining a sense of balance is also important.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wider health
detriment. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jo Brown (PCAH) raised the issue of
wider health impacts of ionising radiation (for example immune system effects)
and pointed out that the Justification and National Policy Statement (NPS)
accept that nuclear power plants have a causal link to reduced health. Hergen
Haye clarified that the National Policy Statement does not deal with this issue
at all as it is a planning statement, but that the regulatory justification
indeed looks at possible health detriment versus other benefits. He confirmed
that the Secretary of State has taken the decision based on all the current
evidence known confirming that the benefits outweighed any know health
detriments which are effectively regulated. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Other
participants commented that the consultation on Justification had focused on
the heath detriments which were assessed to be outweighed by the assumed
benefits arising from nuclear energy, Andy Blowers recalled that the challenge
BANNG put to the consultation was to look more critically at the benefits,
which he believed to be minimal or non-existent.</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He agreed there was not a denial that
there are health detriments, but suggested that if there are no benefits the
justification should go the other way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Further COMARE
response on health detriment and earlier hypotheses. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ian Robinson confirmed that the International Standards for
Radiological Protection and the UN Committee on the Effects of Radiation
associate a dose of radiation with a detriment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
response to the suggestion that emissions could be up to 500 times the average
annual dose, he pointed out the differences between UK and German nuclear power
plants: in Germany liquid discharges have to be restricted as plants tend to be
inland so they choose to put more as aerial effluent; in the UK plants tend to
be coastal so there is a big dilution of what goes into the sea and aerial
discharges are far less than on the continent. In addition he pointed out
refuelling spikes in the UK are minute. In response to this Jo Brown (PCAH)
suggested that the RIFE 16 report recorded huge increases.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Further work<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Follow-up contact with Ian Fairlie and
Alfred Körblein.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Ian Fairlie pointed out that both he
and Alfred Körblein had PowerPoint presentations on their various theories
about the causation of increased leukaemia, which they would be happy to
provide for the report of the meeting, confirming that they would both be happy
to be contacted with any questions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Further debate of nuclear power plant
proximity as a cause. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ian Fairlie went
on to outline some outcomes that he and Alfred Körblein hoped would come out of
the meeting:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">An acknowledgement that the
preponderance of evidence shows that there are increased leukaemias near
nuclear power plants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The preparation of a report which looks
at radionuclide discharges as being a causative effect and publishing a report
saying that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He then suggested this may be too big an ask given the UK
government is going ahead with building new nuclear power stations, quoting Dr
Gordon Thompson at the Institute for Resource and Security Studies as saying
that “political pressures from economic interests too often influence policy
approaches to low-dose radiation”. He suggested that this was happening in the
UK, and that it was inevitable to some extent but that we should try to look
hard at where the evidence leads. He finished by saying he hoped COMARE would
undertake work to look at possible causes, and that looking at nuclear power
plant proximity as a cause would be the obvious thing to do. There was vocal
opposition from one attendee about this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SUGGESTION: Consider radionuclide discharge as a causative
effect.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Further data. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ian Fairlie went on to reference other studies coming out
possibly in Belgium and Sweden about increased leukaemia near nuclear
facilities, which he said would provide more evidence. He also looked forward
to the publication of COMARE 15 looking at incidences of childhood leukaemia
near Sellafield and Dounreay and asked for an indication of when the extended
CCRG data would be available.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Richard
Wakeford responded that he would fully expect the Childhood Cancer Research
Group (CCRG) in Oxford to update these studies on a relatively regular basis,
but that the accumulation of data is relatively low frequency so it would not
be sensible to do that every year. He pointed out that the Bithell published
paper was not an exercise on behalf of COMARE or the Department of Health but
was a CCRG initiative and is the most recent in a series of studies by the
CCRG, with a much wider area than just radiation. He suggested that, provided
the CCRG continued to exist, he had no reason to believe they would not
continue with that series of studies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">COMARE comment on
research recommendations. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Richard Wakeford
commented that there had been a whole series of recommendations by COMARE and
others in recent years. He suggested looking at the nature and amount of
research recommended and asking whether COMARE had left anything uncovered or
overlooked something as far as childhood leukaemia as a whole is concerned. He
went on to say that it was time to ask whether COMARE had really missed
something big as far as radiation is concerned or whether it was time to look
at childhood leukaemia as a whole now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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pointed out this was being taken on by the European Commission as a whole (for
example the Melodi Programmes being considered) and that, in his view, it would
be myopic to just focus on radiation unless COMARE has missed something. He
stated that he sensed we were on the verge of a lot of progress as far as the
big picture is concerned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">COMARE 15. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Alex Elliott confirmed that what had been referenced earlier
as COMARE 15 (further work on incidences of childhood leukaemia near Sellafield
and Dounreay) may end up being COMARE 16 as the Department of Health has asked
COMARE urgently to look at use of CT scanning in the UK. But either way the
expectation is to complete the work on Sellafield and Dounreay by the end of
2014.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Site data for the
UK. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In reference to an earlier comment from
COMARE about there being no radiation spikes in UK, Alfred Körblein asked
whether these data were available for independent scientists to look at. Ian
Robinson responded that he did not know about the availability of data, that
there are data to some extent in the Radioactivity in Food and Environment
report, but that he was not sure whether sites would release it. He suggested
the Environment Agency may be able to help.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pete
Wilkinson (CANE) added that Sizewell Site Stakeholder Group sent a letter to
EDF some time ago to ask for the outage data to see if they could replicate the
spike from the German plant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After
nearly two years EDF finally provided the data, but it is not broken down into
hourly or half hourly chunks, instead showing the average across the year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Further data
analysis: risks at variable distances. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Alfred
Körblein brought up another area of potential research, referencing some work
he had done with German data:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Normal modelling of risk with distance
in the KiKK study (and COMARE/Bithell) assumes infinite risk at no distance.
This is not reasonable as, with fallout, the risk is not highest nearest the
plant, but is estimated at 2-4km depending on dispersion concentration, wind
speed, stack height etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Looking at the KiKK data, the cancer
risk below 3km was lower than in the 3-5km zone. So this points to a decrease
of risk from the 3-5 km zone towards the site.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He suggested that similar data are available in the UK, and
that such an analysis could be undertaken in order to find out whether there is
increased risk at 3-5 km, which would support the idea that increased leukaemia
incidence has to do with emissions. If the data are there he suggested this
would be easy to do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SUGGESTION: Analysis of risk at variable distances from
nuclear power plants in the UK.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In addition, he stated that a study of leukaemia near the La
Hague reprocessing plant in France found a significantly increased risk for
young males under 10 years but not for females, leading to the possibility that
radiosensitivity of males may be higher than for females. He suggested that
COMARE could also look at the data for a difference between males and females.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SUGGESTION:
Consideration of possible variable impacts on males and females.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">COMARE response to
further data analysis.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Richard Wakeford
questioned whether doing the sort of modelling suggested with the sparseness of
the data available would be useful, pointing out there would be a need to test
again with an independent but equally sparse data set, and that data would only
be available in wards rather than the degree of resolution required. He
suggested it would be better to look for certain radionuclides like tritium and
carbon-14 in the environment or even in people. He referenced a study on
childhood leukaemia clusters for Seascale and Dounreay, which looked at the
plutonium levels in them, siblings, relatives and children in Glasgow; the
results showed background levels only. He suggested that by doing that sort of
measurement you can look at whether certain radionuclides are being grossly
underestimated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ian
Fairlie agreed with the comments on radionuclide measurements but suggested
that he and Alfred Körblein could do the analysis suggested if they could be
given the data, and that data at ward level would be good enough.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Communications and working together<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Giving communities
a clearer message. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pete Wilkinson (CANE) related concerns
over the feeling of disrespect between participants in the meeting to the wider
issue of communities around nuclear power plants and how they are communicated
with, specifically the lack of clear, consistent information on topics such as
this. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He
suggested that the panel is united by the recognition of an association between
nuclear power plants and leukaemia incidence, and that what was needed was a
way to bring the two sides of the debate together and look towards a joint
funded piece of work, rather than a polarised debate that leaves communities in
the dark.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Joint working. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There followed some discussion of the difficulties and
considerations of joint working, with reference to various participants’
previous experience with the European Committee on Radiation Risk (ECRR) and
the Committee Examining Radiation Risks of Internal Emitters (CERRIE). The need
to assimilate critical voices into the process was contrasted with the
difficulty of reconciling polarised views.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SUGGESTION:
Joint working, involving critical voices, on the degree to which there is or is
not a causal link between nuclear power plants and leukaemia incidence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Public communications.
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Frank Boulton (Medact) commented on the
fact that radiation and leukaemia were both difficult to understand for the
general public. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jill Sutcliffe (Low Level Radiation and Health Conference)
made the point that there are people on the ground who have a different and
more direct experience of this topic but who don’t want to follow this level of
debate. She stressed the need to be careful at the end of these scientific
exchanges that people on the ground understand why certain things are done in certain
ways, perhaps through the development of a knowledge transfer interface to
improve public understanding. She suggested that scientists are too quick to
respond saying there is no problem and that this does not fill people with
confidence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SUGGESTION:
Development of a common knowledge transfer interface to enable members of the
public to keep up to speed with the debate in a non-technical manner.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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discussing this issue, perhaps through further meetings similar to this one.
Ian Fairlie suggested that, whilst it may be unrealistic to expect COMARE to
meet with the Forum regularly, there could be the option of sending out a draft
report for comment in future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Investigation of possible sex ratio effects in communities close to nuclear
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might be useful to consider another paper written by Ian Fairlie looking at
genomic instability. Ian Fairlie confirmed that this was a large study looking
at a new range of effects of radiation called non-targetted effects, and that
the jury is still out as to the overall significance of these effects. He
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whether the range different hypotheses put forward could be tested by COMARE.
The process for COMARE’s work was confirmed by Alex Elliott as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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individual report, including people outside of COMARE (for example Ian Robinson
was brought in for COMARE14). The sub group will decide the broad bones of the
report then that will be taken forward.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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constructive debate founded on the science of the issues in an atmosphere of
mutual respect, feeling that this had only been partially achieved. Although on
the whole reasonably constructive, he felt the meeting had, at times fallen
below the standard of mutual respect. He called for these kinds of discussions
to be restrained, sceptical, and rational as far as possible, within the norms
of what would be regarded as reasonable scientific discussion. He pointed out
the need to be clear about the agenda and to try to avoid incoherence. Having
said that, he felt it has been an interesting and invigorating discussion and
expressed hope that discussions of this kind could be continued, ending with
the challenge of how the work of committees like COMARE is communicated
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interesting discussion and that he had some sympathy regarding the question of
how these issues can be coherently communicated <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to the wider public. He suggested that if
there is the possibility of consensus we should strive for that but also
recognise that it may not always be possible. A wider issue, he suggested, was
that if people in one way or another are set on one particular outcome, the
question of whether dialogue is possible is raised, nuclear issues being very
challenging in that respect. He suggested that sometimes long standing
convictions can stand in the way of enquiry and that all parties have to be
willing to look for solutions or perhaps even be willing to move from what they
believe, in order to ultimately have a successful outcome and one which is
evidence-based.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial,Bold'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">Horizon Nuclear Power, the developers of a proposed new nuclear power station at Oldbury,
today welcomed </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial,Bold'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">completion of the company’s purchase by Hitachi Ltd of Japan, four weeks after
</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial,Bold'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">agreement was reached with shareholders E.ON and RWE.
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">The company its assets and its staff have now been acquired by Hitachi as a going concern.
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">Horizon Chief Operating Officer Alan Raymant said: </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">“We‟</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">re delighted that the deal has completed. It
secures the future of Horizon, and represents a huge economic opportunity for </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">South Gloucestershire”.
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">“Our project at Oldbury </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">will represent a multibillion pound investment, with a peak of around 6,000
construction jobs and around 1000 during the operation of the station. Our investment in local skills and
suppliers can also help ensure that the project leaves a lasting legacy for the region</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">”.
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">“Hita</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">chi has a world-class track record. Its Advanced Boiling Water Reactors have all been constructed
to time and to budget. We plan replicate that success in the UK. Now the sale has completed we will
focus on developing our programme and strategy.
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">“</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">Development of Oldbury will follow our lead site at Wylfa. We also expect our current preference for
</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">smaller „hybrid‟ cooling towers will remain unchanged”</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">.
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">Announcing the sale in October, Hitachi and Horizon set out their intention to make significant
investment in training engineers, construction teams and operating staff for a new power station.
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">“We realise there will be a great deal of interest in our plans locally and we look forward to providing the
</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">community with further information as soon as possibl</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">e”.
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Notes to editors
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<span style="font-family: 'Wingdings'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">Horizon Nuclear Power was formed in 2009 as a 50:50 joint venture between E.ON UK and
RWE npower. The shareholders announced an intention to sell their stakes in Horizon on 29
March 2012.
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<span style="font-family: 'Wingdings'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">The company holds grid connection agreements and owns land suitable for the development of
new nuclear power stations at Wylfa on the Isle of Anglesey and Oldbury-on-Severn in South
Gloucestershire. Both sites are nominated for nuclear development under the National Policy
Statement for Nuclear (EN-6).
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial,Bold'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">Contact:
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">Tristram Denton </span><span style="color: rgb(0.000000%, 0.000000%, 100.000000%); font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">Tristram.denton@horizonnuclearpower.com </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">on 07585 966 747.
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Monday 26 November 2012
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10920932914654906950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3250846938358928833.post-28154194081236935382012-11-26T14:50:00.001+00:002012-11-26T14:50:33.001+00:00Horizon purchase is completed!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The government subsidy that is Horizon Nuclear Power has finally been bought by Hitachi, a Japanese company desperate to resurrect the terminally ill Japanese Nuclear industry by hoping the Uk government will donate billions of British taxpayers hard earned money to shareholders more than half way around the world.<br />
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The Horizon purchase can be seen as a desperate attempt to show Japanese society that is , with total justification, that there is a place for nuclear and even new nuclear in the world.<br />
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I still feel that, like the German public , the Japanese public will resist all attempts by their ruling establishment to progress with the craziness that is the nuclear industry.<br />
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The first statement we have from Horizon states that the Hitachi reactors are the tops! The same executives a few months ago were peddling the EPR and Westinghouse reactors. This should make everybody realise that the key thing to these companies is the return they make for their shareholders!<br />
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We assume that Hitachi will now apply to have the reactor appraised by the GDA process that only a few years ago it pulled out of for some reason?<br />
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Lets see what happens!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10920932914654906950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3250846938358928833.post-33103937684154466342012-11-22T16:22:00.000+00:002012-11-22T16:24:25.162+00:00Sign up now to make Bristol, UK ,Nuclear Free<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Joanne Baker has arranged for a petition question by Bristol City Council that requests Bristol to be relisted as a member of Nuclear Free Local Authorities (NFLA).<br />
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Please sign the petition at <a href="http://nuclearfreebristol.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://nuclearfreebristol.wordpress.com/</a><br />
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And be fairly repreasented.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10920932914654906950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3250846938358928833.post-27790962859766474302012-11-21T15:01:00.000+00:002012-11-21T15:01:04.471+00:00Minutes of Latest meeting with ONR<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Notes of the latest NGO meeting.<br />
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There is a definite feel by NGO representatives that ONR inspectors need to be toughened up so that the Global businesses developing the potentially new nuclear industry are deal't with properly.<br />
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They will tend to be massive businesses driven by nothing but shareholder value and will do anything to maximise this.<br />
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The risks at stake are massive!<br />
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invited Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs) at the Grand Connaught Rooms, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:city>, on the 6<sup>th</sup>
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6<br />
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Generic Design Assessment (GDA) and
Stress Test<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span> <span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Page 6<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Emergency
Planning</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Radioactive
Waste</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 8;"> </span>Page
7<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Openness and Transparency<span style="mso-tab-count: 6;"> </span>Page
8<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Attendees<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">NGOs<br />
<br />
</b>Peter Smith <span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span>Stop
Hinkley Campaign<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="ONRNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">David Lowry<span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span>Nuclear
Waste Advisory Associates (NWAA)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="ONRNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Jill Sutcliffe<span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span>Low
Level Radiation Conferences<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="ONRNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Jo Brown<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Parents Concerned About
Hinkley<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="ONRNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">John Busby<span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span>Advisor
to stop Hinkley<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="ONRNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Lydia</st1:country-region></st1:place>
Meryll<span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span>Socialist
Environment and Resources Association<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="ONRNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Michael Taylor<span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span><st1:personname w:st="on">Communities</st1:personname> Against Nuclear Expansion (CANE)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="ONRNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Peer Burt<span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span>Nuclear
Information Services<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="ONRNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Peter Wilkinson<span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>Wilkinson
Environmental Consulting (Chairman)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="ONRNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Phil Davies <span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span>SPRU/
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Sussex</st1:placename></st1:place>, also NWAA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="ONRNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Andrew Blowers<span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>Chairman
of Blackwater Against New Nuclear (Banng)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="ONRNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Reg Illingworth<span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>Shepperdine
Against Nuclear Development<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="ONRNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Sean Morris<span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span>Nuclear
Free Local Authorities<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="ONRNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Deborah Wilson <span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>Nuclear
Information Services<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="ONRNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Richard George<span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>Greenpeace
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="ONRNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Rita Holmes<span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span>Hunterston<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /><span style="font-family: Arial;">
</span><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">ONR personnel<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<div class="ONRNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Nick Baldwin<span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span>Chairman
ONR Board<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="ONRNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><st1:personname w:st="on">Andy Hall</st1:personname><span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span>Acting
HM Chief Inspector<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">John Jenkins<span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Acting Business Head of ONR <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Les Philpott<span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span>Director
of Finance and Business Services<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="ONRNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Frans Boyden<span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span>HM
Superintending Inspector<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Charles Temple<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Head of ONR Emergency
Preparedness and Response and Radiological Projection<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Colin Potter<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>HM Principal Inspector<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<st1:personname w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Peter Brazier</span></st1:personname><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">HM Inspector<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<st1:personname w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Sue Kelly</span></st1:personname><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Head of ONR Communications<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Marie Railton<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Communication Team ONR<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Environment Agency</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Robert Smith <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Environment Agency<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Alan McGoff<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Environment Agency (from 13:05
onwards)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">WELCOME
AND OBJECTIVES<br />
</span></b>The meeting began on time at 1100 and participants were welcomed by
the Chairman. A one minute silence was kept for Crispin Aubrey. The Chairman
reminded the participants that the focus of the meeting was on the key areas of
the agenda and that other matters including those raised relating to Hinkley
power station should be taken outside the meeting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Chairman outlined the papers available,
including action points from the previous meeting in November.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">GENERAL ISSUES<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Ground Rules for the meeting<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The ground rules paper
produced by Peter Burt was discussed. The participants agreed that subject to a
minor amendment they were useful in helping to ensure that constructive
dialogue took place in these meetings. The Chairman suggested that the NGO
Forum may wish to adopt these ground rules for this and subsequent meetings. There
was some discussion on how to apply the rules. The Chairman also agreed that he
would try to administer the application of these rules. On this basis and that
the agreed amendment would be made the Chairman moved to adopt the ground
rules. There were no objections to this proposal. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Action Log<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The Chairman
referred the participants to the action log prepared by ONR that captured
actions from previous meetings. He asked that the participants review the log
and inform Marie Railton if there are any actions that need to be carried over
to the next meeting. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">KEY ISSUES OF
THE DAY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The Chairman
invited <st1:personname w:st="on">Andy Hall</st1:personname> to outline the key
issues for the day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><b>Fukushima</b></st1:city></st1:place><b> and Stress Test Progress<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><st1:personname w:st="on">Andy Hall</st1:personname> advised that the ONR report on the
implementation status of his Fukushima Report recommendations after 12 months
was issued in October 2012 and that is now on the ONR website. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">He also provided
updates on the work being carried out regarding Emergency Preparedness by
Government (local and national), ONR and Licensees; the review of ONR’s Safety
Assessment Principles; the development of ONR’s research index to include
chemical plant; the acquisition and deployment of emergency equipment by EDF at
various locations in the UK.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">He also referred
to the status of the Licensees responses in the October implementation report.
He noted that significant progress had been made but, that in 33% of cases,
their proposals<span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">/plans needed
further development or provision of evidence/information before ONR would be
able to assess whether the matter had been adequately addressed. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ONR’s expectation is that all Licensees would
complete the work as soon as possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>He
also noted that this work was now moving from a separate project to being
incorporated into ONRs normal business. It would be prioritised as part of the overall
scope of ONR’s work. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Generic Design
Assessment (GDA)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><st1:personname w:st="on">Andy Hall</st1:personname> reported that of the 31 issues, 13 were
now closed out. He reported that the Requesting Party (RP)<b> </b>wanted to close
out the remainder by the end of November 2012. He also said that issues would
only be closed if the RP provided suitable and sufficient evidence to ONR that
the case for closure of the issue could be made. It was emphasised that only
after ONR had agreed that the evidence was adequate would ONR issue a closure
letter. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></o:p></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Emergency
Planning<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><st1:personname w:st="on">Andy Hall</st1:personname> reported that ONR was engaged in the
planning and delivery of site, regional and national exercises. He referred to
ONR’s mission of protecting people and society from the hazards of the nuclear
industry both home and overseas, in the later case, by providing advice to
Government for dissemination to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>
nationals overseas. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Radioactive
Waste<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><st1:personname w:st="on">Andy Hall</st1:personname> pointed out to the participants that the
safe storage of radioactive waste in a suitable facility was integral to making
the case for the safe, through-life management, storage and disposal of
radioactive wastes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Openness and
Transparency<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 6pt; tab-stops: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><st1:personname w:st="on">Andy Hall</st1:personname> said that ONR was working hard at
improving its openness and transparency within the bounds of the relevant
legislation. The transformation to a statutory corporation, he believed, may well
be helpful in delivering its aspirations in this area. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 6pt; tab-stops: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">He then welcomed
debate on the key issues. The following notes summarise the debate. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">There was a
general discussion around the protection of nuclear workers abroad, in
particular, uranium miners, when considering the justification process for new
nuclear build in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><st1:personname w:st="on">Andy Hall</st1:personname>
pointed out that ONR can only act where it has powers to do so. The
justification decision was not ONR’s to make and it was only able to offer
advice on this matter. Further discussion considered Irish and Norwegian
concerns with potential New Build in <st1:place w:st="on">Anglesey</st1:place>.
<st1:personname w:st="on">Andy Hall</st1:personname> said that agreements had
been put in place between <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region>
and <st1:country-region w:st="on">Ireland</st1:country-region> and between <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Norway</st1:place></st1:country-region> to address these concerns. ONR’s
implementation to full disclosure of information on these matters unless
prohibited by law has helped address these concerns. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">There was a general
discussion on the responsibility for land use planning. <st1:personname w:st="on">Andy
Hall</st1:personname> pointed out that it was the Local Authority’s
responsibility to make planning decisions and that ONR’s role is as consultee
to the process. He went on to explain that this role is limited to providing
advice on developments that are near nuclear power stations. He noted that
action was being taken to clarify this planning role by devolved and national
Governments. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">There was a
general discussion around how the issue of obsolescence for the EPR reactor design
was regulated. <st1:personname w:st="on">Andy Hall</st1:personname> explained
that it is the responsibility of the Licensee to demonstrate that a reactor is
safe to operate. This achieved over the lifetime of the reactor by ONR
requiring the Licensee to produce a Periodic Safety Review every 10 years. This
must make the case for continued operation. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the case cannot be made then ONR would not permission
the reactor to operate. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">PLENARY
SESSION<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Each of the key
issues of the day was discussed in plenary session. A summary of the discussion
of each issue is set out below in the order they took place. Note: Openness and
Transparency was not discussed during the plenary session. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Radioactive
Waste<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">There was a
discussion on the long term storage of radioactive wastes on nuclear licensed
sites around the uncertainty on when a disposal facility may be available. NGOs
were critical of what they saw as complacency about long term, interim storage
of wastes which may be required to be stored on site indefinitely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NGOs also felt that storage issues in the
face of on-going uncertainties about the creation of a national nuclear waste
repository were being largely ignored.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">ONR was asked to
provide details of which NGO’s would be part of its Technical Advisory Panel.
ONR reported in the meeting that although this work was planned it had not yet
been started and consequently a list of participating organisations was not
available yet. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">There was some
discussion around the issue of so many organisations being involved with
radioactive waste and the lack of clarity of their roles and responsibilities. It
was suggested that ONR may wish to consider the role it plays and making this
more transparent to the NGOs. This matter has been the subject of ‘DECC papers’
produced by the NGOs. The Chairman undertook to send copies of these papers to
ONR. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>ACTION</b>:
Peter Wilkinson to send DECC papers to Marie Railton. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Action carried out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">There was some
discussion on the merits of holding a conference on disposal. It was reported,
by Jill Sutcliffe, that Neil Smart from the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
was supportive of the idea to look at better ways of sharing information and communicating.
<st1:personname w:st="on">Andy Hall</st1:personname> noted that it was not ONR’s
responsibility to define how disposal should be done; this will be the
responsibility of the licensee, RWMD, in due course. The discussion returned to
the matter of interdepartmental working on radioactive waste and disposal; more
specifically the making of the case for licensing new build nuclear power
stations. <st1:personname w:st="on">Andy Hall</st1:personname> made the point
that it was government policy to pursue the underground disposal of spent fuel
and higher activity wastes that could not be disposed of in the Low Level Waste
Repository (LLWR). He also said that ONR required the licensee to ensure that all
radioactive wastes arising from a new build reactor were managed safely for a
period of up to 100 years. Arising from this discussion was the issue of the
openness and transparency of what ONR does. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The participants discussed how ONR might be
able to give the NGO’s (and other stakeholders) the confidence that issues of
concern, such as spent fuel and radioactive waste management throughout the
lifecycle of a reactor or chemical plant, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>were being taken into account in the work it
does. <st1:personname w:st="on">Andy Hall</st1:personname> reminded the
participants that ONR’s focus is the regulation of the safety and security,
accumulation and management of radioactive waste on a nuclear site and it can only
act where it has powers to do so. He did recognise that Mike Weightman’s
leverage model gave ONR the capability to influence in areas where it is unable
to regulate. He emphasised it was important for ONR to remain demonstrably
independent of government and that it was unable to make policy. The Chairman
noted that in his opinion ONR did not perhaps recognise the power and influence
it has. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">There was some
discussion around the issues raised in Mike Weightman’s <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Fukushima</st1:place></st1:city> report regarding the arrangements
for the long term storage of wastes. <st1:personname w:st="on">Andy Hall</st1:personname>
said that no significant shortfall in licencee’s current arrangements had been
identified but that ONR would use the operational experience gained from the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Fukushima</st1:city></st1:place> event to think
about how to address those events that may be on the limit of creditability. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Frans Boyden noted that an EU directive on
waste management was being produced which the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United Kingdom</st1:place></st1:country-region> would have to comply
with.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">GDA/ Stress
Tests<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The two areas
identified as the focus for NGOs were the ability of the ONR to meet
government’s required close-out date for the F-DAC of the end of November which
many NGOs felt was unrealistic and the lack of openness and transparency which
NGOs felt hampered their ability to satisfy themselves that the process by
which closure was achieved was robust. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The improved
progress on closing GDA issues was noted. The Requesting Party (RP) is planning
to get the remaining issues closed by the end of November.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This relies on them providing ONR with
suitable and sufficient information to ONR in time to be enable it to close out
the issue and ultimately to issue a Design Acceptance Confirmation (DAC) by the
end of the year. Colin Potter also added that the Assessment Findings arising
from the GDA process were being incorporated into the work of the site
licensing teams work, reviewing the New Build potential Licensee’s
arrangements. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This prompted a
discussion on the disclosure of information relating to ONR’s decision to close
an issue for which information had been requested under the FOI Act. It was
suggested that ONR’s position looked like protectionism regarding commercial
confidentiality. In particular, NGOs argued that ONR appeared to be protecting
the interests of privatised industry over those of the public interest and
that, when answering an FoI request, they should apply the ‘public interest
test’ to determine the legitimacy of the decision to redact information.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This test was required under the FoI Act and
ONR should indicate that the test had been applied and then justify their
decision to stakeholders or to the party requesting the FoI. Andy Hall
countered this perception by saying that ONR must act within the law but went
on to make the point that it did consider each FOI request on a case by case basis.
ONR did agree to make sure that, to the best of its ability, it would apply its
principle of being as open and transparent as it could within the constraints
of the FOI Act and to demonstrate more clearly that it was doing so. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></o:p></b></div>
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<b><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></o:p></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Emergency
Planning<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">(note: Alan
McGoff joined the meeting at this point)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The Chairman
noted that this discussion was effectively a follow on to the DECC meeting with
NGOs. He agreed to provide Marie Railton with the papers from the meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>ACTION</b>:
Peter Wilkinson to send DECC papers to Marie Railton. (see also above) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">A presentation on
<st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region> nuclear emergency planning
was given by Sean Morris, <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region>
and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ireland</st1:place></st1:country-region>
Secretary Nuclear Free Local Authorities. In summary he noted that although
emergency planning covered some sensitive areas he felt that NGOs could still
make a useful contribution and should be brought into this process with
government and ONR in some way. One example of this was detailed local
knowledge. Charles Temple noted that the local off site plan worked on a multi
agency approach. ONR acts in the role of observer and its experience it that
the local agencies do work together to deliver the plan. There was some discussion
on the development of emergency plans for new build sites. Charles Temple pointed
out that it is for the licensee to develop the on site emergency plan. Where an
off site risk is identified,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it’s the
responsibility of the local authority to put a suitable plan in place and it
must consult with the local service providers to ensure they are able to
support it. He went on to note that ONR is seeking to harmonise the detailed
emergency planning zone (DEPZ) definition with EU guidance and also considering
the aspect of extendibility of the DEPZ. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The Chairman
asked how the decision on the DEPZ was made, and whether the DECC / LA/ ONR
process needed strengthening and opening up to scrutiny. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Charles Temple said that ONR was acting to
improve the openness and transparency of emergency planning. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">ONR reported that
there had been emergency exercises at Bradwell and Hunterston (table top only)
that had tested the extendibility of the emergency planning arrangements and
that the outcome had been encouraging. He noted that there is a need for clarity
of the extendibility arrangement for the transition between on site and off
site DEPZ and beyond to where there is a need for civil contingencies act
measures to be taken. Rita Holmes, the chair of the Hunterston Site Stakeholder
Group reported that she had been unaware of the Hunterston exercise which
prompted more discussion on the openness and transparency issue. It was
proposed by Peter Burt that ONR could produce a schedule for the ONR/ LA
reviews of the emergency planning arrangements. Charles Temple added that a
spread sheet was being developed by ONR with this information and would be made
available to NGOs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Breakout
sessions – Key Points<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">(The flip charts
produced by the break out groups have been typed up, as produced, during the
event, and are set out below along with any additional information or actions
that arose during the feedback session that followed.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">GDA/ Stress Tests<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The following issues were raised
and discussed:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Stress Tests<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">The safety of existing stations<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -37.3pt 6pt 78pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 78.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">400
issues still outstanding<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -37.3pt 6pt 78pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 78.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Remote
control rooms<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -37.3pt 6pt 78pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 78.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Amount
of equipment <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -37.3pt 6pt 78pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 78.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Mobile
plant<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">GDA<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">13 issues still outstanding<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Outstanding question - how long before core
meltdown of an EPR reactor if nothing is done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -37.3pt 6pt 150pt; mso-list: l1 level4 lfo2; tab-stops: list 42.0pt; text-indent: -126pt;">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">What is happening with the GE/ Hitachi ABWR? ONR
has not been approached yet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Given the limited component life of say, steam
generators, how does ONR have confidence in station design life? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Regarding FOI of GDA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stop redacting everything. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">The
more that’s published the better<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><st1:place w:st="on">Opportunity</st1:place> to ask questions of the vendor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -37.3pt 6pt 78pt; mso-list: l1 level5 lfo2; tab-stops: 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Legal
opinion on presumption of publishing, advice to be brought to next meeting. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">MoU
or similar for handling FOI / GDA with NGO’s. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Additional feedback session notes:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Action: ONR agreed to seek a legal
opinion in favour of release of information following a FOI enquiry and share
it at the next NGO Forum.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Emergency Planning<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The following issues were raised
and discussed:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Identifying and harnessing local knowledge in
the formation of the Emergency plan. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Review of ONR acceptance criteria for
determining the adequacy of the off site plan. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Review detailed DEPZs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Establish register of local NGOs for
consultation on off site emergency plans. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Investigate possibility of NGOs obtaining
observer status at off site emergency planning exercises.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Consider how information on the emergency planning
arrangements is made available within the DEPZ and further out in the extended
zone?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Additional feedback session notes:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Action: ONR to investigate report of 8 <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Hinkley</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Point</st1:placetype> <st1:placename w:st="on">B</st1:placename></st1:place>
workers requiring treatment at Harwell in 2009 outside meeting. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Radioactive Waste<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The following issues were raised
and discussed:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">New Build Wastes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Neglect
of the issue by all<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">The
uncertainty of the GDF as part of Government policy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Societal
context unknown<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Need
to take greater involvement and action<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Sizewell B<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Illustrates
practical and technical issues - storage in casks, how long, in what stores. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">ONR<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">No
licence until proper solution for radioactive waste.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Where
does radioactive waste management come in the licensing process?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Also
issue of decommissioning as part of the licensing process<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Radioactive
waste is a big issue for new build but depends on the design etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">At
present not sufficient is known/ Government policy is obtuse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">All
sites to produce a radioactive waste management case / EU waste directive is
likely to require some sort of national plan for radioactive waste.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">ONR
must be open on the radioactive waste management component. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">A
progressive staged process<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">There
may be a danger of confusion of roles – ONR cannot be responsible for
Government policy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Additional feedback session notes:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">David Lowry asked what role ONR expected
to play in the security aspect of the funded decommissioning plan assessment
(FDP) for New Build<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Colin Potter replied that ONR was a
consultee to the Secretary of State and that it would provide comment on the
FDP. ONR security staff would provide input to ONRs overall response. ONR
expected that DECC would publish ONRs input to the FDP assessment when they
published the FDP.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Openness and Transparency<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The following issues were raised
and discussed:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Is it ONRs role to say whether industry is safe?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">ONR
should be accountable for this decisions<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Be
willing to explain its decisions<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">ONR
has a neutral stance<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Does ONR concentrate on the technical perspective-need
to consider human perspective?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Where it is not ONRs role or responsibility
there should be better sign posting between Government and Regulators. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Commenting on international issues – Japanese
nationals post <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Fukushima</st1:place></st1:city><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Do
we need to make the vires of ONR clearer?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">FOI<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Greater
internal challenge needed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">FOI
– is it always the best option?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Commercial
markings<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Do
we get blanket markings?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Are
the ground rules of the GDA process clear?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">ONR cannot stop specific activities happening
but must ensure that the risks are ALARP (as low as reasonably practical)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Should ONR influence and question more -
especially protecting people? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Additional feedback session notes:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Some discussion took place around whether
gender balance played a part in the justification decisions reached for New
Build. ONR was asked whether it considered gender balance and ethics in the
work it does. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Prior to closing
the meeting the Chairman asked whether there were any questions that
participants had wanted to ask that had not been covered during the day? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Mike Taylor asked
ONR to confirm that the stress test work at Sizewell B will be published. <st1:personname w:st="on">Andy Hall</st1:personname> replied that the Chief Inspector’s
implementation report, published at the end of October, does provide details of
Sizewell B matters but also went on to point out that the report also high
lights that there are some areas of development still in progress. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It was noted that
information of the new ECC at Sizewell had been released. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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useful and was pleased with the input of views. He considered whether or not
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bounds of the FOI Act. Lastly he asked the participants of the meeting to
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10920932914654906950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3250846938358928833.post-28658766903195455802012-11-20T15:25:00.002+00:002012-11-20T15:25:37.303+00:00Banzai to renewables!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hitachi and Horizon along with DECC have fallen the belief that nuclear, asit exists has a future, even a long future.<br />
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This is nothing but a lie to the British public who sadly are not well enough informed by this sham of a government who only have the interests of big business at heart.<br />
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Renewables Banzai! Nuclear dies!</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10920932914654906950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3250846938358928833.post-31647743907636459642012-11-15T17:01:00.004+00:002012-11-15T17:01:43.812+00:00Kick Nuclear Protest outside Japanes Assets in London<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
We say f...K Hitachi and all Japanese nuclear tyrants!<br />
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Join Kick Nuclear in London at the Japanese Embassy and TEPCO offices to protest at what is happening in Japan and at what is planned by Hitachi through their shell business Horizon Nuclear Power.<br />
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<a href="http://stopnuclearpoweruk.net/content/london-demo-solidarity-japanese-anti-nuclear-protesters-0">http://stopnuclearpoweruk.net/content/london-demo-solidarity-japanese-anti-nuclear-protesters-0</a><br />
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This Friday and Next Friday<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10920932914654906950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3250846938358928833.post-85397688649736684422012-11-15T12:49:00.001+00:002012-11-15T13:59:44.707+00:00Kick Nuclear shows the massive subsidies that the Nuclear Industry will get<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<em>Delivered to Ed Davey, <span style="font-size: 11pt;">Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change; George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Danny Alexander, Chief Secretary to the Treasury.</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">kicknuclear [at] kicknuclear.org</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Wednesday, 14 November 2012</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Dear Sir,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">The UK Government has proposed to introduce a series of measures within the new Energy Bill that would offer eye-watering payments to the nuclear industry, whose costs are already spiralling out of control.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Under the existing proposals, nuclear power will benefit from an estimated £3.5 billion in windfall payments for existing nuclear power stations, and as much as £40 billion over 30 years for each new nuclear reactor that is built. These subsidies would have to be paid for through energy bill hikes and/or further taxpayer subsidies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">We are opposed to any new nuclear power stations, not least because of the many safety issues involved and the unresolved waste issue. If a serious accident occurs, as at </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Fukushima</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, it could not only bankrupt the operators but seriously damage the country’s economy, just as is happening in </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Japan</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Existing nuclear reactors have already been massively subsidised by, for example, funding the cost of reactor decommissioning and long-term radioactive waste management, and new reactors will continue to benefit from limits to operator liability in the event of a serious accident.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">In addition, new nuclear now appears to be the most expensive of the proposed energy technologies, taking into account all associated costs. [1] What is more, while the cost of emerging renewable energy technologies are expected to fall markedly over time, this is not anticipated in the case of nuclear, whose costs have shown little sign of decreasing in the six decades since its inception.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">The government has promised not to repeat the terrible mistakes of the past by subsidising nuclear power: it must stick to this pledge. We ask that all financial support for nuclear power in the Energy Bill be abandoned, and instead that proper financial support be provided to facilitate a rapid transition to a sustainable energy system, based on investment in energy saving measures such as domestic insulation, energy storage, and renewable and decentralised energy, with a particular emphasis on encouraging the growth of community energy projects.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Daniel Viesnik, Kick Nuclear</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Rt Hon John Leech MP (</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Manchester</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> Withington)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Rt Hon Tessa Munt MP (Wells)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Dr Paul Dorfman, Founder, Nuclear Consulting Group, Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust Nuclear Policy Research Fellow, and Former Secretary to Committee Examining Radiation Risks from Internal Emitters</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Dr Gerry Wolff PhD CEng, Coordinator, Energy Fair</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Jill Gough, National Secretary, CND Cymru</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"> 1. <a href="http://www.energyfair.org.uk/oppcost">http://www.energyfair.org.uk/oppcost</a></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10920932914654906950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3250846938358928833.post-87920690130690350372012-11-15T12:38:00.005+00:002012-11-15T12:38:57.298+00:00Flexman to speak in Horizon<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Leon Flexman the PR man for Horizon is to speak at an industry event about his new found enthusiasm for the Hitachi reactors which are yet to even start the GDA procedure and that are similar to the reactors used in Fukushima.<br />
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Gone are the EPR and Westinghouse which were the best on the block, to be replaced by another best on the block.<br />
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The people at Horizon remind me of a car dealer that loses his franchise for a company one day and starts flogging another model the following day. <br />
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There will be many a slip between cup and lip!!<br />
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generation future may be at risk as the list of potential operators shrinks due
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risks are enormous," said Tom Burke, a consultant with environment and energy
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the Horizon nuclear project, which last week was sold by E.ON and RWE after the
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Analysts say that ENEC would not be an
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itself. The first of its Korean-built reactors is expected to come online in
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Sweden's Vattenfall, which runs reactors
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nuclear operations, but the company told Reuters it had no plans of investing in
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operations in the UK. Our activities there focus on renewable energy (offshore
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Analysts say the cost of market entry for
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Offshore wind benefits from generous
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"To put money into UK nuclear would be
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For investors in Britain's nuclear
industry, the main problem is the amount the government can allocate from higher
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tariffs to offset the development costs of Britain's nuclear plant
fleet.</div>
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E3G's Burke said that allocation would be
capped around 4 billion pounds ($6.4 billion) by 2015, while the costs of
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could rise to over 12 billion a year by the mid-2020s.</div>
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Utilities such as France's EDF Energy,
which operates Britain's biggest nuclear power plant park and plans to build
several new reactors, are seeking safeguards against big cost overruns.</div>
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The government's <a class="itxtnewhook itxthook" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/07/energy-britain-nuclear-idUSL5E8M7EQD20121107#" id="itxthook1" rel="nofollow"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap_ie7" id="itxthook1p"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap_ie7 itxtnewhookspan" id="itxthook1w" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: transparent transparent rgb(0, 204, 0); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #009900; font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; text-decoration: underline !important;">energy
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expected to go to parliament later this month, may include details on the
minimum nuclear generators can charge, which could give more certainty to
investors. But the legislation is likely to be subject to amendments, Energy
Minister John Hayes told a parliamentary committee this week.</div>
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commercial and industrial consumers. (2)</div>
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and budget. (3) But none of these have a capacity factor above 73% and two have capacity factors of</div>
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any nuclear power project comes out needing twice the power price to be an economic proposition.</div>
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never mind 100 per cent of the financing. They did agree to take out a 20 per cent equity investment</div>
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in a nuclear power plant in Lithuania (which the Lithuanians have just rejected in a referendum).</div>
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any money. Hitachi would have exactly the same problem as is faced by EDF or, for that matter, any</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10920932914654906950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3250846938358928833.post-63920093620371438232012-10-30T15:33:00.002+00:002012-10-30T15:33:32.907+00:00Sophie Ploeg comments about Oldbury in The Independent<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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South Gloucestershire Council is against it but they're building a new power
station in Oldbury's flood plain, 4x the size of the old one. It creates
jobs...why not build a cathedral, that creates jobs too. Or why not carry water
to the sea....it creates job without the bad side effects that us and our
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10920932914654906950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3250846938358928833.post-60323996748916902852012-10-30T14:48:00.002+00:002012-10-30T14:48:29.246+00:00Doro Chiba Mass Rally....Ban nuclear worldwide<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #9900ff;">Organize International United Action against
nuclear plants and unemployment!<br />Withdraw the dismissal of 1047 national
railway workers!<br />Abolish casual employment system!<br />Build up a nationwide
network of militant labor unions to fight against neo-liberalism!</span></div>
<strong><span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;">Call for endorsement to and participation
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Solidarity Union of Japan Construction and Transport Workers
Kansai Area Branch<br />(Kan-Nama)<br />Metal and Machinery Workers’ Union in Osaka
(Minato-Godo)<br />National Railway Motive Power Union of Chiba
(Doro-Chiba)<br />Nationwide Movement against the Division and privatization of
National Railway<br />and the Reinstatement of 1047 National Railway
Workers<br />(Nationwide Movement of National Railway Struggle)</div>
Fighting workers across the nation and all over the world! <br />On March 11,
the East Japan Earthquake, Tsunami and subsequent nuclear disaster killed tens
of thousands of people and destroyed the lives and jobs of many people in an
instance. Millions of people all over the country including the affected areas
are exposed to high-level of radioactivity and now in mortal danger. Moreover,
people are facing a great wave of unemployment. Farming and fisheries were
deeply impacted. Already hundreds of thousands of workers have lost their jobs
and forced to live in dire poverty. The government is planning to promote
drastic tax hike and dismantlement of the social security system.<br />
Most of these things were caused by neo-liberal offensives. For instance, the
public infrastructure was completely dismantled as a result of privatization,
local governments were pushed into financial collapse, the number of public
workers has been endlessly decreased and so on. Since the Privatization and
Division of National Railways, the neo-liberal policies have diminished the
power to prepare against disasters, resulting in an unimaginable catastrophe. On
top of it, the Fukushima nuclear disaster revealed the corrupt governance
mechanism. All the whole ruling class of this society—the government,
bureaucrats, business circles, bribed scholars, mass media, courts, co-opted
labor unions—are tainted by cozy and corrupt vested interests. They, having an
urge to equip our country with nuclear arms, promoted the nuclear energy policy
by telling people a bunch of lies. It was the crimes of the government and
capital that brought about the catastrophe.<br />
The government still conceals the truth and insists that the radiation level
is safe and it does not pose a health risk. <br />There is a mounting anger across
the nation. This public outrage is expressed through many protest actions
against the government and the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), developing
into the struggle to live through. Especially, the growing anger of 2 million
people of Fukushima, having been deprived of everything, is reaching to the
boiling point. <br />
On June 11, a big protest action was carried out at the Sinjuku Station East
Square in Tokyo. Over 20 thousand protesters gathered there and the shouts of
“anti-nuclear” and “anti-unemployment” filled the streets around the downtown
area. One of the endorser unions, Kan-Nama, set up a relief center in the
affected area to fund with their pay raise that they have won through their
spring labor offensive of this year. Minato-Godo and Doro-Chiba are also
striving hard to fight with the people in the affected areas. <br />
On the other hand, labor movements are now threatened with a serious crisis.
In the circumstances of the reactionary offensive of the government and capital
to force upon us nationalism such as the “general mobilization to confront
nation’s adversity” under the name of “reconstruction”, the co-opted labor
unions are giving up every struggle and abandoning the class point of view. What
is now happening is just the same dangerous situation, in which workers are
forced to go for war as a soldier. <br />
The Japanese government and the business circles are attempting to designate
the affected areas as “Reconstruction Special Zones” where every regulation
would be abolished to force workers into thoroughly low wage,
privatized/outsourced, temporary works. With the government in command, public
service workers get pay cut. What is more, all of 3.6 million public service
workers are to be fired at once and rehired selectively as temporary workers
under the name of the “Reform of Local Government Employee System”. 160 thousand
postal temporary workers who work under the fixed-term contract are on the verge
of being fired and turned adrift. Now is the time for all workers to stand up
for a powerful struggle against nuclear plants and unemployment from their
working places. <br />
Capitalist system is on the verge of meltdown. The global economic crisis
triggered by the Lehman Shock three years ago caused full-scale financial
collapse in the US, EU countries and Japan. They are trying to escape their
current desperate conditions by taking a toll on the workers. Above all things,
we now need to revitalize fighting labor unions. <br />
The Division and Privatization of National Railway drove labor movements to
step back and to give up their basic labor rights. That is why we are
consistently insisting that we should not obscure the point of this offensive.
However, last year on April 9, we faced a crucial situation. It was a decisive
attack to dismantle the struggle to reinstate 1047 fired National Railway
Workers. The so-called “political settlement” was agreed and in July this year
the declaration to end the struggle was announced, ignoring the social and legal
responsibility of massive lay-offs and state-sponsored crime to collapse labor
unions by privatizing and setting up unfair labor practices. Under such crucial
situation, we have started the new labor movement with the slogan of “Don’t put
out the fire of National Railway Workers’ Struggle”. The purpose of our movement
is to make a class unity of workers across the nation. We support independent
efforts at work places to organize struggles no matter how small a struggle is.
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Kan-Nama waged a general strike for 139 days and is playing its way to a
victory successfully fighting back against a ferocious crackdown. Doro-Chiba has
been consistently blocking the outsourcing plan of Japan Railways (JR) by waging
strikes for many times. Minato-Godo has kept confronting corporate bankruptcy
and subsequent discharge through organizing workers of small and medium
enterprises and achieving victories by the unity of all the workers. People of
Okinawa and farmers of Sanrizuka bring an outburst of fierce angry voice.<br />
We need to unite the power of all workers of the world to confront the
situation that is unprecedented in human history. <br />We call on an
international united action on November 6 to fight against nuclear plants and
unemployment. <br />Let’s get together in Hibiya and raise a big angry voice.<br />
We call on all who share same aspiration to endorse to, and to participate in
November 6 National Workers’ All-Out Rally.<br />
August, 2011<br />
<strong>TITLE of the Rally: </strong>Organize an International United
Action against nuclear plants and unemployment! Withdraw the dismissal of 1047
national railway workers! Abolish casual employment system! Build up a
nationwide network of militant labor unions to fight against neo-liberalism!
November 6 National Workers’ All-Out Rally <br /><strong>Date:</strong> Sunday,
November 6, 2011<br /><strong>Time:</strong> At 12:00
noon<br /><strong>Venue:</strong> Hibiya Open Air Stage, Tokyo<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10920932914654906950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3250846938358928833.post-70686181160735897342012-10-30T13:39:00.001+00:002012-10-30T13:39:23.413+00:00Press Release from SANE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span>我々は、</span><span>オールド</span><span>で</span><span>福島</span><span>をしたくない</span><br />
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We at Shepperdine Against Nuclear Energy are sad that after E.on and RWE have decided to give up building new nuclear in the UK that Hitachi have decided to buy the sites that are owned by Horizon Nuclear Power.</div>
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We do not want the Shepperdine site to become another Fukushima. We are in touch with various environmental bodies and a Japanese labour union called Doro Chiba to try and get a full understanding of what they know about Hitachi.</div>
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We undrestand that the reactor will have to go through the full Generic Design Assessment and this will take up to four years.</div>
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"What will this do the coalition agreement ? We as taxpayers and electricity consumers had better get used to helping shareholders of Hitachi in receiving guaranteed dividends!"</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10920932914654906950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3250846938358928833.post-85446524305426491672012-10-30T09:03:00.003+00:002012-10-30T09:03:36.119+00:00Japanese Copy of Article<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span>英国の</span><span>原子力産業</span><span>の一部を</span><span>つかん</span><span>で</span><span>、その初期</span><span>歓喜</span><span>後</span><span>悲しい</span><span>現実は、</span><span>E.ON</span><span>、RWE、</span><span>株主</span><span>、彼らは</span><span>それを行うには何も</span><span>したく</span><span>ないことを</span><span>ドイツ</span><span>の賢明な</span><span>公共</span><span>に沈んだ</span><span>。</span><br /> <br /><span>我々は、</span><span>E.ON</span><span>さえ</span><span>フィンランド</span><span>新しい</span><span>原子力発電所</span><span>に、その</span><span>飼料</span><span>を終了</span><span>することを決定したことを</span><span>聞いて</span><span>喜んでいる。</span><br /> <br /><span>よくやった!</span><br /> <br /><span>それは常に</span><span>日立</span><span>の</span><span>計画を</span><span>疑問視する</span><span>と</span><span>、彼らは</span><span>あまりにも</span><span>ついに</span><span>新しい</span><span>原子力は</span><span>実行可能な選択肢ではない</span><span>ことを理解するであろう</span><span>ことを確認するために</span><span>SANEs</span><span>の</span><span>意図である。</span><br /> <br /><span>私達は私達の</span><span>抗議運動</span><span>が前進</span><span>する方法</span><span>の</span><span>緊密な情報</span><span>で私たちを</span><span>通過する</span><span>日本の</span><span>仲間たち</span><span>との強力な関係を</span><span>形成することになる</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10920932914654906950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3250846938358928833.post-247666869060422852012-10-30T08:57:00.001+00:002012-10-30T08:57:25.981+00:00E.on and RWE leave the nuclear industry<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
After their initial glee at grabbing a piece of the British nuclear industry sadly the reality sank into E.on, RWE , their shareholders and the wise public of Germany that they want nothing to do with it.<br />
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We are pleased to hear that E.on has even decided to end its forage into the Finnish new nuclear plant.<br />
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It is SANEs intention to constantly question the plans of Hitachi and to make sure that they too will finally realise that new nuclear is not a viable option.<br />
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We will form strong relationships with our colleagues in Japan who will pass us on close information of how our protests will go forward</div>
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