Armed police train for an attack on nuclear shipment from Dounreay
29 Oct 26, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c317kvk1v2n8o
Armed police have for the first time tested a scenario where an attempt is made to attack and steal a shipment of radioactive material being transported from the Dounreay nuclear power plant.
The Civil Nuclear Constabulary exercise involved armed attackers deliberately crashing a car to stop a lorry reaching Georgemas Junction, a railway station about six miles from the plant on the north Caithness coast.
In real-life situations, the station has been used for transporting radioactive material from Dounreay to Sellafield in Cumbria for reprocessing or storage.
The training exercise included an employee at Dounreay, near Thurso, being “arrested” in connection with the attack.
The Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC) worked with Police Scotland and other emergency services during the exercise held late last month.
A workshop was also held involving police, Highland Council, Dounreay and the Vulcan Naval Reactor Test Establishment.
Vulcan, which sits next to Doureay, is a military facility used for testing prototype nuclear reactors for submarines.
CNC said months of planning went into preparing the exercise.
Exercise and resilience manager Steve Warren said: “This was a scenario that had not been exercised or tested before, meaning we were asking a lot of everyone involved.”
Ch Insp Dave McIntosh, of Dounreay’s operational policing unit, said the training had placed personnel in “really challenging circumstances”.
He added: “I’m very proud of them, they did a really, really good job.”
Dounreay was built as an experimental nuclear reactor site in the 1950s and is now in a years-long process of being decommissioned.
Nuclear emergency warning after radioactive material released in fire at nuke site
Radioactive material was released after a fire broke out at the Savannah River Site, prompting a second-highest level emergency declaration at the nuclear facility
Jeremiah Hassel Senior U.S. News Reporter and Olivia Beeson UK & World News Reporter, 29 Oct 2026,
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/emergency-sparked-after-radioactive-material-37821162
Radioactive material was released following a blaze at a nuclear facility in South Carolina. A site area emergency was declared at the federal nuclear complex in the Palmetto State.
The fire has now been extinguished. Authorities announced the emergency at 5:39pm on Wednesday after flames erupted in a single room at the Savannah River National Laboratory near Aiken, with the site posting an update on its official X page.
Officials told local broadcaster WRDW that there was “an unfiltered, ground-level radiological release”. They stressed that no contamination was detected outside the affected facility, and there has been no indication of consequences beyond the site’s boundaries.
Nevertheless, the Federal Aviation Administration imposed a flight restriction, citing a US government “nuclear incident” at the location. “A fire was reported at the Savannah River National Laboratory but has since been extinguished. No contamination has been reported outside the affected facility,” the SRS posted on X.
“As a precaution, barricades at site entrances have been closed to incoming traffic. Rail, river, and air traffic in the vicinity of SRS is also being restricted. SRS officials are directing response efforts and have notified the appropriate state and local government agencies,” the statement added.
“Local residents should tune in to local radio and TV stations where state officials will announce any actions citizens may need to take. Residents should stay tuned to these stations for updated instructions.”
Staff caught up in the incident were believed to have sheltered in place throughout the ordeal as a precautionary measure. Workers were located in Area A, the laboratory section, taking refuge behind barricades, the statement confirmed.
They were later allowed to leave, though nobody was permitted entry, WRDW reported, partly citing the statement. The cause of the fire, along with the type and volume of material released and whether anyone sustained injuries, all remain undisclosed.
Wednesday’s emergency declaration represents the second-highest of three emergency categories at the facility, signalling that “something more serious has occurred,” according to the site’s community preparedness guidance. The emergency declaration was lifted Wednesday night once the blaze had been extinguished.
The SRS spans roughly 310 square miles of land straddling the South Carolina-Georgia border. Established in the 1950s, it produced plutonium and tritium for nuclear weapons throughout the Cold War, though its focus has since shifted to nuclear materials management, environmental clean-up and research.
Recommendations on the dangerous plan to renew Cameco’s licence for the Port Hope Conversion Facility
On contact with skin or lungs, HF becomes liquid hydrofluoric acid. It causes deep caustic burns, sometimes right to the bone, severe respiratory damage, and pulmonary edema (whereby fluid builds up in the tiny air sacs of the lungs, making it very hard to breathe). It attacks eyes, destroys corneal tissue and can cause blindness. Acute high-dose exposurecan be fatal, as in the 1986 Sequoyah Fuels incident discussed below. If uranyl fluoride is inhaled, serious cellular damage to the kidneys can occur within 24 to 48 hours. At the same time, radioactive material lodges in the lung, increasing the risk of cancer years later
We Will Not Compromise Safety,
October 2, 2026, Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility
Cameco has applied to renew its operating licence for the Port Hope Conversion Facility
(PHCF) for a term of 20 years. The present 10-year licence expires on February 28, 2027.
The applicant is not asking for any changes in the current conditions of the licence, going
forward, other than extending the term from 10 years to 20 years.
Uranium is a naturally occurring radioactive heavy metal. The Port Hope plant produces
two specific chemical compounds of uranium: uranium hexafluoride (UF6) for export and
uranium dioxide (UO2) for domestic use.
Canada is the world’s second largest producer and exporter of uranium. Uranium ore is
mined and milled in Northern Saskatchewan. From the mill, a solid uranium concentrate–
commonly called “yellowcake” – is packed in drums as a fine powder and trucked to the
Blind River refinery in Ontario. Yellowcake is a semi-processed mix of uranium oxides,
mainly U3O8. It does not react readily with air or with water, but it is easily inhaled if spilled.
It is a powerful nephrotoxic heavy metal that can severely damage the kidneys if inhaled.
Uranium mining and milling leaves a long-lived radioactive footprint. Voluminous sand-like
radioactive wastes called “uranium mill tailings” are left behind as an unwanted byproduct
of the milling process. Canada has so far accumulated about 230 million tonnes of
uranium tailings in Ontario, Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories. These tailings
contain over 70 percent of the total radioactivity present in the original ore. To be precise,
the wastes contain most of the naturally-occurring radioactive byproducts of uranium such
as radium-226, thorium-230, polonium-210, lead-210, and radon-222, all created
spontaneously from the disintegration of uranium atoms over millions of years. . Uranium
mill tailings will remain radiotoxic for hundreds of thousands of years to come.
The Blind River facility, situated on the north shore of Georgian Bay, receives yellowcake
from Canada, the United States and Australia for further processing. It is the largest
uranium refinery in the western world……………………………..
Cameco’s Port Hope facility (PHCF) converts 85 to 90 percent of the refined uranium
trioxide from Blind River to a hazardous and highly reactive chemical compound called
uranium hexafluoride (UF6), while the other 10 to 15 percent is converted into a much more
stable compound called uranium dioxide (UO2). These two conversions are separate
processes taking place within the Port Hope facility. Uranium hexafluoride is slated for
export; it is solely intended for the purpose of uranium enrichment. Uranium dioxide is for
domestic use; it is sent to an Ontario fuel fabrication plant prior to its use in CANDU
nuclear reactors.
The export product, uranium hexafluoride – known in the industry as “hex” – is an extremely
dangerous compound. It has to be handled very carefully. It reacts violently on contact with
water or moist air, releasing toxic and corrosive chemicals. The rapid and energetic
reaction creates a dense white cloud of corrosive gas, posing serious health hazards. The
cloud is made of gaseous hydrogen fluoride (HF) and tiny particulates of solid uranyl fluoride (UO2F2)
On contact with skin or lungs, HF becomes liquid hydrofluoric acid. It causes deep caustic
burns, sometimes right to the bone, severe respiratory damage, and pulmonary edema
(whereby fluid builds up in the tiny air sacs of the lungs, making it very hard to breathe). It
attacks eyes, destroys corneal tissue and can cause blindness. Acute high-dose exposure
can be fatal, as in the 1986 Sequoyah Fuels incident discussed below. If uranyl fluoride is
inhaled, serious cellular damage to the kidneys can occur within 24 to 48 hours. At the
same time, radioactive material lodges in the lung, increasing the risk of cancer years later
The Sequoyah Fuels plant, located in Gore, Oklahoma. was a uranium hexafluoride
conversion facility years ago. It began operations in 1970. The Sequoyah plant suffered a
serious accident in 1986 when an overfilled UF6 cylinder was heated by workers (contrary
to regulations) and internal gas pressure made it burst. Worker James Harrison (25) was
killed; over 100 workers, travelers, and residents required medical evaluation and treatment
for toxic gas exposure due to hydrofluoric acid and uranyl fluoride exposures as well.
Twenty-one of them were hospitalized. Interstate highway 40 and several local areas faced
temporary closures, as the toxic cloud travelled 29 kilometres in a 40 km/hr wind
Bear in mind that the consequences described above resulted from the accidental release
of the UF6 in one transport cylinder only. Evidently a much more severe accident would
have correspondingly more serious consequences. The Sequoyah plant was forced to shut
down in 1992 for safety reasons, after another toxic release occurred.
The immediate chemical hazard from UF6 is entirely due to hydrogen fluoride gas…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Recommendation 1. That CNSC require Cameco to establish and maintain an “exclusion zone” of at least 2 kilometres around the PHCF plant as a prudent margin of safety for the population in case of a large release of uranium hexafluoride or hydrogen fluoride.
Recommendation 2. That CNSC not grant a licence to Cameco for the PHCF for a period of more than two years, so that if recommendation 1 cannot be fulfilled for any reason, the PHCF can be relocated to a site that will be able to accommodate such an exclusion zone………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Recommendation 3. That CNSC not grant a licence to Cameco for the Port Hope
Conversion Facility for a period exceeding two years, during which time Cameco be
required to devise a detailed emergency measures plan with a well-publicized evacuation
plan for the entire downtown area of Port Hope including a full rehearsal of such an
emergency evacuation plan, based on the contingency of a malicious act against the plant. https://www.ccnr.org/CCNR_PHCF_CNSC_2026.pdf
US Nuclear Uprates Gain Slew of Firm Commitments
Nearly 1.7 GW in new nuclear capacity via US reactor uprates has been backstopped by long-term purchase deals over the last year.
US DOE financial commitments are also ramping up, working in tandem with the end-use agreements to derisk uprate projects.Alongside reactor license extensions, uprates are considered a near-term tool to meet rising US power demand ahead of new reactors that would take far longer to get running.
Energy Intelligence 16th Oct 2026 Lauren Craft, Washington, Editor, Phil Chaffee
https://www.energyintel.com/000001a1-42b1-daa6-a7b3-eab1109f0000On the Fiasco at Holtec’s Palisades Nuclear Power Plant
Karl Grossman – Harvey Wasserman, October 19, 2026, https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/10/19/on-the-fiasco-at-holtecs-palisades-nuclear-power-plant/
On the southeastern shore of Lake Michigan, an extremely hot, intensely radioactive 1,000-pound nuclear fuel assembly sits somewhere under specially treated water inside the Palisades nuclear power plant. That assembly has “tilted from its upright position,” according to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and may have damaged other key components of the plant.
But the commission, nevertheless, just green-lighted a risky retrieval operation by the plant’s owner, the New Jersey-based Holtec Company. The “regulators” in charge of all this answer to Donald Trump who can fire any NRC employee at will, based on the Slaughter decision of the U.S. Supreme Court this year.
Despite serious uncertainties and vast potential danger, Holtec is now approved to pull those extremely radioactive rods out of the reactor core.
Trump is personally invested financially in the nuclear power industry.
Billions are at stake. Holtec needs Palisades to open ASAP.
The NRC has given Holtec a permit to proceed, which means that Holtec may soon pull those hot rods out from under water. If they do, all bets are off on the future of the reactor, the region, and the nuclear industry as a whole.
This incomparably high stakes radioactive situation erupted on or around August 30, 2026, when Holtec placed that fuel assembly into the water.
Palisades sits in Covert Township, 150 yards from Lake Michigan, 70 miles east of Chicago, 180 west of Detroit.
It’s one of three shut “zombie” reactors the industry’s billionaire backers want to re-fire for electricity for data centers, AI and crypto production.
Before moving those rods Holtec had planned a $900 million Initial Public Offering.
The company has taken gargantuan sums of money from the state and federal governments to re-fire Palisades and build at least three Small Modular Reactors, two on the Palisades site and one at the site, also in Michigan, of its Big Rock Point nuclear power plant.
Some repayments will to come due in March, 2027.
Palisades’ proposed electricity would be Holtec’s sole source of a fresh cash flow.
Sixty years ago—on October 5, 1966—the Fermi I reactor suffered a major accident across the state in Monroe. The near-catastrophe prompted John G. Fuller’s best-selling book We Almost Lost Detroit, and Gil Scott-Heron’s companion rap song.
Detroit Edison spent some three years and $100 million trying to revive Fermi I before shutting it in November 1972, with enormous losses.
Since going critical in the early 1970s, Palisades has never met basic NRC fire protection standards. Its previous owners suffered a wide range of operational errors, including two site evacuations of plant personnel from the containment building. X There was also mishandling of a 107-ton radioactive waste transfer container. In the face of enormous safety and economic challenges, Palisades was shut by Entergy on May 20, 2022. Holtec bought the plant later in 2022 with a commitment to decommission it, but then switched to announcing a re-start by 2024.
Holtec has never run or restarted a nuclear power plant.
Detroit Edison spent some three years and $100 million trying to revive Fermi I before shutting it in November 1972, with enormous losses.
Since going critical in the early 1970s, Palisades has never met basic NRC fire protection standards. Its previous owners suffered a wide range of operational errors, including two site evacuations of plant personnel from the containment building. X There was also mishandling of a 107-ton radioactive waste transfer container. In the face of enormous safety and economic challenges, Palisades was shut by Entergy on May 20, 2022. Holtec bought the plant later in 2022 with a commitment to decommission it, but then switched to announcing a re-start by 2024.
Holtec has never run or restarted a nuclear power plant.
In October, 2025, a worker fell into radioactive water in the reactor cavity inside the plant. Plant personnel records say critical staff may be dangerously overworked contributing to the nuclear assembly incident.
Holtec admits it has “lost” critical welding records. Some of what Holtec has admitted to the NRC are welds which have violated American Society of Mechanical Engineers standards and may be irreparable. Framatome, one of the world’s most experienced nuclear engineering companies, warns that critical steam generator tubing is cracked, and that Palisades probably can’t run a full fuel cycle.
The very idea of reopening Palisades has ignited bitter debate within the scientific and engineering community. Numerous veteran safety and management personnel have jumped ship. A manager of Palisades for Holtec has left. He has likened a restart to “trying to build a fire truck on the way to a fire.” The position of lead site safety manager may have been vacant during the fuel assembly problem.
As widely reported by Muskegon-based investigative journalist Roger Rapoport, and by long-time Kalamazoo-based nuclear expert Kevin Kamps, a restart involving removing the hot fuel rods from their borated pool could pose serious risks.
Ironically, a PR crew of Holtec was filming when what veteran nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen called a “rookie error” resulted in the tipping of the fuel assembly. But neither Holtec nor the NRC have released visuals of the accident, nor has the public been informed about what broader damage it may have caused.
Rapoport and Kamps further report that Alan Blind, a highly respected veteran engineer, has filed a range of technical questions with the NRC. The commission’s Petition Review Board has retaliated by attacking Blind personally. The attacks signal that Trump’s NRC is very much in Holtec’s camp.
With the fuel assemblies now in protective borated water, the NRC denies any radiation releases, and thus any harm to plant workers or the public. But Holtec brands the situation an “emergency.”
It needs to lift that errant assembly into the air to restart its cash flow.
So, with NRC approval, it may try to cram the errant fuel assembly into a cylindrical Fuel Transfer Canister, hoping to crush the fuel rods, which may not otherwise fit.
The U.S. nuclear industry has never pulled off such a stunt.
After five dead years, there’s no public need for Palisades’ power. Under federal law, Trump, Holtec and the NRC have very limited legal liability.
The nuclear industry’s much hyped “renaissance” may now ride on the Palisades crap shoot. At least two other proposed “zombie” restarts (at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island Unit 1, and at Duane Arnold in Iowa), await Palisades’ lead.
Trump also wants to launch an untested, unproven fleet of Small Modular Reactors to run data/AI/crypto centers. Soaring costs, technical pitfalls and advancing renewables, have driven the SMR gambit to the brink. Billions of taxpayer and investor dollars hang in the balance.
Holtec’s fuel assembly debacle and dumped IPO have shredded the industry’s financial credibility, as has public rage against data centers, AI and crypto.
Trump is doing all he can to kill green energy. But the astonishing advances in solar, wind, geothermal and post-lithium batteries make the rise of a renewable-based “Solartopian” energy economy appear increasingly unstoppable.
Palisades’ upper-level management has been decimated. In the wake of Elon Musk’s DOGE, some 500 NRC staff are also gone, along with about half the commission’s routine reactor safety inspections. Trump’s absolute control guarantees further attacks on critical industry stalwarts like Alan Blind.
Above all, Palisades demands open public hearings to vent the warnings of veteran experts like Blind, Rapoport, Kamps, Gundersen—and of an informed grassroots opposition.
History tells us such battles have been won—and that our survival hangs in the balance. But we’re likely to know what we need to know at this plant only after such hearings.
Harvey Wasserman wrote the books Solartopia! Our Green-Powered Earth and The Peoples Spiral of US History. He helped coin the phrase “No Nukes.” He co-convenes the Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Coalition at www.electionprotection2024.org Karl Grossman is the author of Cover Up: What You Are Not Supposed to Know About Nuclear Power and Power Crazy. He the host of the nationally-aired TV program Enviro Close-Up with Karl Grossman (www.envirovideo.com)
Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility (CCNR) intervention re. Cameco’s “Uranium Hexafluoride” plant at Port Hope Ontario.
Gordon Edwards, 21 October 26,
With the unprovoked war on Iran by the USA and Israel, uranium enrichment has become an exceedingly touchy technology. Uranium enrichment requires the use of uranium hexafluoride, the only known compound of uranium that turns into a gas at a relatively low temperature (56.5 degrees C). There are only three commercial UF6 plants in the western world, in Canada, the USA, and France.
UF6 is a very nasty chemical. When released as a gas it reacts violently with moisture in the air to from a noxious haze of white “smoke” – a mixture of hydrogen fluoride and uranyl fluoride – that is highly corrosive, causing deep chemical burns, pulmonary edema, destruction of eye tissues, rapid kidney damage, and sometimes death.
CCNR recommends the creation of an exclusion zone of at least two kilometres around the facility, either by purchasing properties within that radius, or relocating the plant to a less densely populated area. There are currently 10,000 living within 2 miles of the Port Hope facility, with no emergency measures plan (with evacuation) predicated on a malicious attack on the facility.
www.ccnr.org/CCNR_PHCF_CNSC_2026.pdf
Fall, fuel rod mishap and failed exams plague US nuclear revival effort
Michigan reactor restart is delayed as Trump administration champions nuclear energy to meet booming AI power demand
US regulators have issued a warning to a nuclear project critical to
Donald Trump’s efforts to revive the industry, after a contractor fell
into a reactor cavity and a bundle of fuel rods nearly tipped over during
refuelling. The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission told Holtec International,
a company racing to reopen a shuttered reactor at the Palisades nuclear
power plant in Michigan, to address a “chilled work environment” that
has made staff hesitant to raise safety concerns without fear of
retaliation. The warning has prompted concerns among critics that financial
and political pressures to revitalise nuclear power as an answer to booming
AI-driven energy demand are increasing risks of accidents.
FT 23rd Oct 2026,
https://www.ft.com/content/bcc464cc-9d12-4b15-866d-64642de66ca8
Council responds to fears of attack on proposed Welsh nuclear power station
23 Oct 2026, Dale Spridgeon, Local Democracy Reporter, https://nation.cymru/news/council-responds-to-fears-of-attack-on-proposed-welsh-nuclear-power-station/
The interests of Ynys Môn will be “fully represented and robustly advocated,” a council chief has pledged after campaigners raised fears over Russia or Iran targeting the proposed site of a new nuclear plant.
Anti-nuclear protesters fear that Anglesey could be a target if the UK’s first small modular reactor (SMR) nuclear power station is built on the former Wylfa power station site
The site was selected for development by the UK Government in April. The nuclear project is being led by Great British Energy – Nuclear (GBE-N) and Rolls-Royce SMR, in a £2.5 billion partnership.
The island group People Against Wylfa B (PAWB) have also expressed their concerns that the island’s RAF Air Base at Valley could also make the island a target.
They also feel there would be “no safe evacuation” in the event of an emergency, even if a third bridge was built, over the Menai Strait.
The group raised their concerns in an open letter to the Secretary of State for the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) Miatta Fahnbulleh, MP.
In their letter they had stated: “Increasing threats of war mean that we will be targets for attack. Russia and Iran have both threatened us due to our interventions in Ukraine and the use of British bases for the bombing of Iran. Nuclear power stations are now regular targets for attack.
“How are we to be protected? How are we to get off the island in the event of an attack or nuclear accident?
“There are two bridges connecting us to the mainland, and even if there were three, there would be no safe evacuation possible, without the danger of accidents.
“RAF Valley is also on the island, making us a further target.”
DESNZ had replied that the “highest standards” of safety and security surrounded the UK’s nuclear sites
Whilst GBN-E “recognised that the people of Ynys Môn had questions about the plans and looked forward to discussing them openly and constructively”.
Now, Anglesey Council’s chief executive Dylan J. Williams has pledged to “engage constructively” with relevant organisations.
Mr Williams said: “We recognise the concerns raised by PAWB and respect the right of individuals and organisations to express their views on major energy developments.
“Matters relating to nuclear safety, security, emergency planning and national energy policy are the responsibility of the UK Government and the relevant regulators.
“As a county council, we will continue to engage constructively with governments, regulators, developers, local communities and other stakeholders to ensure that the interests of Ynys Môn are fully represented and robustly advocated.
“The council will also continue to fulfil its statutory responsibilities in full and play an active role in all relevant planning, consenting and consultation processes.
“Any future proposals at Wylfa would be subject to rigorous assessment through the appropriate statutory processes, including consideration of safety, environmental, infrastructure and community impacts.”
Concerns over scrutiny of nuclear factory plans
Questions have been raised over whether West Berkshire Council has the
expertise and resources needed to scrutinise plans for a major
redevelopment at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) in Aldermaston. The
nuclear weapons site is expected to submit plans for its Future Materials
Campus, part of a wider £15bn investment in the UK’s warhead programme.
During a meeting on Thursday, Conservative councillor Dominic Boeck said
residents had concerns about the impact of the project and asked how the
authority would independently assess an application of such scale and
complexity. Liberal Democrat deputy council leader Denise Gaines said any
proposal would be examined by qualified professionals and specialist
consultants to ensure all technical and environmental issues were properly
considered.
BBC 19th Oct 2026, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm369jg6d2wno
Deep concerns regarding the Rolls-Royce development at the Wylfa site
Open Letter to Miatta Fahnbulleh MP, Secretary of State for Energy Security
and Net Zero.
Dear Secretary of State, I am contacting you with a letter
written to the former holder of the post, Ed Milliband, expressing my deep
concerns regarding the Rolls-Royce development at the Wylfa site on Ynys
Mon.
Since writing to Ed Miliband, there have been developments that make
the prospects of a nuclear site on the island even more concerning:
1)Increasing threats of war mean that we will be targets for attack. Russia
and Iran have both threatened us, due to our interventions in Ukraine and
the use of British bases for the bombing of Iran. Whatever the rights and
wrongs of these interventions, it is clear that nuclear power stations are
now regular targets for attack. How are we to be protected? How are we to
get off the island in the event of an attack ( or nuclear accident)? There
are two bridges connecting us to the mainland, and even if there were
three, there would be no safe evacuation possible, without the danger of
accidents.
RAF Valley is also on the island, making us a further target.
The waste produced by the possible new nuclear reactors will also serve as
an ongoing target and risk, as it would remain onsite for at least 100
years, being too hot to remove. Our future generations will be responsible
for this; not a legacy we want to bequeath.
2) Increasing droughts and
wildfires have threatened the safety of nuclear plants all over the world,
including at Sizewell B this year. Should the electricity supply be cut to
a nuclear power station, if backup diesel power is then cut off or damaged,
through flooding, as in the case of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, then
there is also disaster, as the reactors cannot be cooled if there is no
electrical power to the station. So, for a nuclear station to be safe,
there needs to be adequate power in the first place. This can no longer be
relied on.
3) A December 2025 Harvard T.H Chan study found a statistical
link between those living close to nuclear power plants and higher cancer
rates in Massachusetts. The strongest link was seen within 20 to 30
kilometers of a nuclear station, and the risk increased as people got
older. There is also a risk to workers.
4) Whereas the Rolls-Royce site has
advertised that the electricity generated at Wylfa would go to homes, it is
now published that energy could go to AI centres being developed on the
island and nearby. How are we to know the end use of the electricity to be
generated by these nuclear reactors?
The World Nuclear Industry Status
Report ( WNISR) 2026 shows that between March 2025 and June 2026, both
solar and wind power have independently surpassed generating electricity
from nuclear reactors. I understand that you want to mitigate the effects
of climate change in the most efficient and safe ways possible. Nuclear
power is neither efficient or safe, particularly under conditions of
conflict, climate change, or indeed pandemic, where routine maintenance is
reduced, as happened during the Covid pandemic.
We implore you to
reconsider pouring more money into these nuclear reactors, yet to receive
the Generic Development Consent order, and instead concentrate our
resources to upgrading the grid, as you propose, and using our excellent
renewable energy sources.
People Against Wylfa B 19th Oct 2026,
https://www.stop-wylfa.org/
Under pressure from AI data companies, USA government facilitating the upgrade of tired old nuclear reactors
The Nuclear Power Shortcut That Could Add Gigawatts to the U.S. Grid
the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) announced it would conditionally loan the energy company Vistra $4.2 billion to uprate three nuclear plants in Pennsylvania and Ohio, adding another 430 MW of capacity. Amazon also completed an agreement to uprate Constellation’s Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant in Maryland, while Google announced plans to increase power production from four reactors in Georgia.
By Felicity Bradstock – Oct 18, 2026, https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Nuclear-Power/The-Nuclear-Power-Shortcut-That-Could-Add-Gigawatts-to-the-US-Grid.html
- U.S. nuclear operators could add gigawatts of power by upgrading existing reactors instead of building new facilities.
- Google, Amazon, and other tech companies are supporting major nuclear uprate projects to meet growing AI electricity demand.
- Nuclear uprates could deliver additional reliable electricity years before new reactors can be constructed.
The process of increasing the maximum power level at which a commercial nuclear power plant may operate is called a power uprate. Several nuclear plants are now considering applying for permission to uprate operations to produce more power in the mid-term to bridge the gap while more nuclear capacity is being developed.
The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regulates the maximum power level at which a commercial nuclear power plant may operate. The permitted power level is stated in the license and technical specifications for the plant and cannot be altered unless approved by the NRC. U.S. nuclear plants can request permission from the NRC to increase their power output, or “uprate”.
The NRC will determine whether to grant a plant uprate permission depending on whether it can be achieved safely. To increase power output, nuclear operators must modify the nuclear reactor’s instrumentation, controls, and power-generation systems. Over the past two decades, the NRC has approved uprates that have provided an extra 6 GW of power to the U.S. electricity grid, which is equivalent to six large reactors. The agency is considering uprate requests from various operators that massively boost the country’s nuclear power capacity.
To safely uprate operations, plant operators must upgrade components such as controls, turbines, and pumps within their nuclear facilities to generate more electricity. While these upgrades can cost billions of dollars to implement, they can allow operators to produce more power much more quickly than it takes to build a new facility. Many upgrades can be completed in five years or less. Analysts estimated that increasing electricity output from existing nuclear plants could add a massive 6-8 GW of clean power to the grid.
In October, the largest nuclear power plant operator in the United States, Constellation Energy, announced plans to invest over $4.3 billion to refurbish 11 reactors at six plants in Illinois, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, enabling them to produce more power. The investment is expected to help Constellation add 890 MW of power to the grid, enough to supply 700,000 homes. Google has agreed to buy electricity from those plants at an undisclosed price.
This is just one of several projects that are expected to support the massive increase in U.S. power demand driven by the rapid rollout of new artificial intelligence (AI) data centres. Also this month, the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) announced it would conditionally loan the energy company Vistra $4.2 billion to uprate three nuclear plants in Pennsylvania and Ohio, adding another 430 MW of capacity. Amazon also completed an agreement to uprate Constellation’s Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant in Maryland, while Google announced plans to increase power production from four reactors in Georgia.
The Trump administration, which has announced plans to quadruple the U.S. nuclear power capacity by 2050, is highly supportive of these new projects. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said in a statement, “By getting more power out of the nuclear plants we already have, we can deliver more affordable, reliable, around-the-clock energy.”
Several nuclear plant operators have struggled to secure the funds to upgrade their plants as U.S. power demand plateaued in the 2000s and public perception of nuclear power was poor. However, the rising demand for power driven by data centres and the improved public perception of nuclear power has encouraged tech companies to invest heavily in a wide range of energy projects, from nuclear power to gas plants and renewable sources. Several tech companies are now willing to pump vast amounts of capital into uprating projects to rapidly increase their access to the clean power needed to run massive data centres.
The NRC expects a total of 31 power uprate applications totalling 7.3 GW thermal and 2.4 GW electric between 2026 and 2032. The organisation is expected to approve several of these projects, as many of the operators requesting uprate permissions have decades of experience in nuclear power development in the United States, making them well-versed in managing safety concerns
Some operators are wary of conducting uprate work because the necessary upgrades would require them to stop producing power for several months. However, as tech companies demonstrate their willingness to invest heavily in nuclear energy projects, more companies may be convinced in the coming years.
Uprating operations is unlikely to detract from plans to develop new nuclear plants in the United States, given the projected rise in power demand over the coming decades. However, it could provide an alternative way to rapidly expand the country’s nuclear power capacity to fill the gap while new facilities are being designed, licensed, and constructed.
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) welcomes G7 commitment to finance urgent repairs to Chornobyl’s protective shield
EBRD 15th Oct 2026,
https://www.ebrd.com/home/news-and-events/news/2026/ebrd-welcomes-g7-commitment-to-finance-urgent-repairs-to-chornob.html
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) welcomes the announcement by the Group of Seven (G7)that as leading industrialised nations, they will provide €260 million to fund urgent repairs to the New Safe Confinement at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, following the Russian drone strike that severely damaged the structure in February 2025.
The G7 (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States) expressed grave concern over the nuclear safety risks caused by the strike and pledged to mobilise funding to repair the New Safe Confinement. The structure contains the remains of Reactor Four and enables the safe dismantling of the original containment sarcophagus built after the 1986 accident.
The G7 also called on other international partners to join the effort and contribute to covering the remaining financing needs.
The announcement was made at the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Autumn Meetings in Bangkok, following a meeting of the G7 finance ministers.
EBRD President Odile Renaud-Basso said: “The EBRD is grateful to the G7 nations for their continued leadership and commitment to nuclear safety at Chornobyl. We join the G7 in calling on the wider international community to contribute to these efforts at a donor conference we are convening in Paris on 9 November 2026, co-chaired by France, Ukraine and the EBRD.”
Chornobyl’s New Safe Confinement was severely damaged by a Russian drone strike on 14 February 2025. The attack breached the structure’s inner and outer cladding, damaged critical systems and severely compromised its two primary functions: containing radioactive material and enabling the safe dismantling of the unstable original sarcophagus over Reactor Four.
Preliminary assessments indicate that at least €500 million will be needed to repair the damage and restore the structure to full functionality. The work needs to be completed by 2030 to limit the risk of corrosion of the steel arch and safeguard the structure’s 100-year design life.
The EBRD has led global efforts to stabilise and manage risks at Chornobyl since 1995, mobilising over €2.5 billion in international contributions – much of it from the G7 nations – and providing more than €700 million of its own resources to fund nuclear safety and decommissioning projects linked to the site.
The Bank is now leading international efforts to restore the full functionality of the New Safe Confinement and to mobilise the remaining funding needed for urgent repairs.
BRIEFING sent to all Cumberland Councillors Partners in Plan to Bring Failed Japanese Nuclear Reactors Sodium Coolant Process Plant to the Port of Workington
Conclusion The Sodium Coolant Process Plant at the Port of Workington would be an unprecedented and dangerous development, putting residents and primary school children in direct danger of both chemical and potential radiological hazards.
These hazards have not been explained to the public by the developers, which includes the regional planning authority, Cumberland Council, as an enthusiastic and facilitating ‘partner.
There has been a lack of clarity on issues
The following briefing has been shared with all Cumberland Councillors. Cumberland Council are partners in the scheme to bring sodium coolant from the Japanese failed Monju fast breeder nuclear reactors to Cumbria. The council has, we believe, not voted on this so the councillors are unwitting partners (much the same as Cumberland’s partnership with the nuclear dump plan).
For the original briefing with full links not reproduced here please contact: wastwater @ protonmail.com
BRIEFING: Failed Japanese Nuclear Reactors Sodium Coolant Process Plant for the Port of Workington?
by Radiation Free Lakeland 12th October, 2026
History
The Japanese Atomic Energy Agency is proposing to send sodium coolant from the failedMonju Fast Breeder Reactor to the Port of Workington in the UK for processing. A company in the UK has been set up to facilitate this.
ALKALI METAL PROCESSING LIMITED was incorporated at Companies House on 26 July, 2023 by Jacobs Clean Energy Ltd. (the name of this company was changed to Amentum Clean Energy Ltd. on 30 September, 2023) and Cavendish Nuclear.
According to the Director’s Report for the year ending 31 March, 2025: “The company’s sole purpose is to deliver a single contract to design, manufacture, construct, operate and decommission a Sodium Treatment Facility in the United Kingdom,” and,
“the entity, via Cavendish Nuclear Ltd., has beenawarded the next phase of work by the Japanese Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) to support the decommissioning of the Monju Prototype Fast Reactor (PFR), in Fukui Prefecture, Japan. The next phase of work covers the construction, commissioning, and securing of regulatory permissions for a new facility in the UK which will treat the sodium coolant removed from the Japanese reactor.”
Democratic Deficit:
Cumberland Council Responsible for Regulatory Oversight while also Development Partner.
There has been no standard planning assessment, or democratic scrutiny of technical details, or vote by Cumberland Council to justify Leader Mark Fryer’s enthusiastic promotion of the plan to import and process Japanese nuclear and chemical waste to the Port of Workington.
“This is fantastic news for the port as this new development, subject to the necessary approvals, will bring good quality jobs to Workington and support the wider supply chain and local economy. We’re extending a warm welcome to our new partners and look forward to working with all those involved over the coming weeks and months.“ Cllr Mark Fryer, Leader of Cumberland Council
Meanwhile the developers, “Cavendish Nuclear and Amentum are grateful to Cumberland Council and the Port’s management team for their support in enabling our design and construction programme to move to the next phase. We are fully committed to adding real social value to West Cumbia and this new venture will contribute to the regeneration of the Port of Workington and support the local economy. ” Cavendish Nuclear and Amentum
The Monju Fast Breeder Reactor, Fire and Accidents.
The Monju Fast Breeder Reactor, in Fukui Prefecture, Japan, has had a history of safety failures, cover ups, and operational redundancy.
In 1995, just months after achieving criticality (power transmission), 640 kg of liquid sodium leaked from a cooling system, causing a fire so hot that it buckled steel girders. The reactor was shut down for 15 years, after the operator was found to have covered up the scale of the damage.
Monju was restarted in May 2010 after a public battle in the courts and a number of safety repairs. However, it never connected to the electrical grid.
“Operations were again suspended in August 2010 after a fuel handling machine was accidentally dropped in the reactor during a refuelling outage. The device was retrieved almost one year later.”
Alkali Metal Processing’s client, the Japanese Atomic Energy Agency, was declared in 2015, “not fit to operate the Monju Fast Breeder Reactor” by the Japanese Nuclear Regulation Authority, following failure to carry out regular inspections on almost 10,000 out of 39,000 pieces of equipment at the Monju.” Source: Nucnet Independent Nuclear News.“
Violently Reactive,” requiring “Chemically Resistant Bunds”and “Nuclear Licenced Zones”
The “Nature of business” is listed on Companies House by Alkali Metal Processing Ltd (AMP Ltd) as “Treatment and disposal of non-hazardous waste.”
While legal definitions of ‘hazardous’ and ‘non-hazardous’ waste are necessarily complex and prevaricated, a reasonable definition of ‘non-hazardous’ would be ‘that which does not constitute a direct threat to human and environmental health’
.The description of Alkali Metal Processing Ltd as “Treatment and disposal of non-hazardous waste” is very much at odds with the Technical Brief published by Geomechanics which states:
● Sodium coolant’s violent reaction with water and air drives stringent segregation of drainage, fire and ventilation systems.
● Port (of Workington) siting demands blast- and fire-resisting structures around offloading and treatment units to contain exothermic events.
● Marine berths and transfer lines must be designed to prevent any seawater ingress intosodium-bearing systems.
● Civil design will likely require chemically resistant bunds and sumps to capture and neutralise any sodium leaks.
● Construction phasing must separate conventional port works from nuclear-licensed zones with controlled access and radiological monitoring.
● Emergency planning will centre on sodium fire scenarios, with specialised extinguishing media and exclusion distances.
● Similar import-treatment concepts could be replicated at other UK ports, but only where nuclear licensing constraints are manageable.
Source: Technical Brief from Geomechanics July 28th 2026
Experience of Dounreay’s Sodium Coolant.
The UK has experience of decommissioning the Dounreay fast breeder reactors. The two Dounreay reactors were fast breeder types, similar to the Japanese Monju reactor, and also used alkali metal coolant. The Dounreay Fast Reactor (DFR) shut down in 1977, while the larger Prototype Fast Reactor shut down in 1994.
Jason Casper, the reactors’ project director at Dounreay, has written at length about the hazardous nature of disposal of sodium coolant. In previous roles, he led clean-up projects in Idaho in the US, and has experience developing and implementing new technologies for sodium treatment, waste monitoring, and characterisation. He writes, at NS Energy that:
“Dealing with the nature of the coolant—commonly sodium or the sodium-potassium alloy NaK—is a major consideration and one of the most demanding and potentially hazardous aspects in decommissioning liquid metal-cooled reactors. Sodium metal reacts vigorously when exposed to water, releasing hydrogen and large quantities of heat, thereby providing not only an explosive gas mixture but also a source of ignition.
2Na + 2H2O = 2NaOH + H2+ Heat
NaK + 2H2O = NaOH + KOH + H2 + Heat
“The products of combustion are also toxic, and can cause severe caustic and thermal burns on coming into contact with skin, as well as being hazardous to ingest or inhale. Methods of destruction or disposal can range from a purpose-built sodium disposal plant (which essentially treats and neutralises the sodium to produce salt water) to high-temperature incineration, among others.
Around 130 m3 of hydrogen gas and 1100 MJ (30 kW) of heat is generated in the ten-hour process to destroy 160 kg of NaK”
Caustic soda production, however, is not a risk-free venture, especially near to residential areas.
A proposed housing development in Runcorn was cancelled over its proximity to a chemical plant producing caustic soda and chlorine.
The housing development masterplan for the Heath Park Development won two national awards, and the plans were approved by Halton Borough Council in May 2024. However, less than 1 km away, the Inovyn ChlorVinyls chemical plant posed a risk to the people who would live on the development that was too severe to ignore.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) lodged an objection to the plans based on modelling scenarios such as chemical leaks and spills, and the potential impact on local residents. Information published following a site visit in 2023 warned that an accident at the INEOS Inovyn site may produce a toxic gas cloud or smoke plume, or a “drifting cloud of flammable gas” that “may ignite”
.The HSE report added: “Fires may generate smoke clouds which may lead to breathing difficulties and deposition of soot on property and vegetation.“
The HSE warned that the consequences of a major accident would be a “potential for burns to body” that would be “possibly life threatening”, and that gas could be “potentially fatal if inhaled.“
Despite the accolades for much-needed housing in Runcorn, the development was cancelled by the Secretary of State, Steve Reed, following a public inquiry held in 2025.
Inovyn ChlorVinyls Ltd claims: “Our operations at the Runcorn site are of strategic national importance to the UK and focus mainly on the production of chlorine, caustic soda and chlorinated derivatives” INEOS
The Dounreay experience of dealing with sodium coolant did not include the production of “usable caustic soda.”
While the Waste Hierarchy encourages re-use and recycling of industrial waste, the production of caustic soda represents an additional risk to the local area on top of the already discussed risks of managing sodium coolant.
The inference is that the ‘production of caustic soda’ is a fig leaf attempt to justify bringing Japanese chemical/nuclear all the way across the sea, from the failed Monju reactor, to Cumbria.
Radioactive Elements: High Level Waste and Low Level Waste. Press reports play down the presence of radioactive elements in the sodium coolant earmarked for delivery to Workington from Japan. However a 2020 ‘White Paper:
Disposition Options for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactors’ from Idaho National Laboratory states:
“The sodium wastes from Sodium Fast Reactor operations will be in two forms, the bulk sodium from the primary and secondary coolant loops and the residual sodium on Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF), piping, and other such components. Sodium bearing wastes not considered SNF or High Level Waste will require disposition at Low Level Waste disposal sites. These wastes will also require chemical deactivation or physical removal prior to disposal. The bulk sodium coolant can often be decontaminated and reused.
The wastes from this decontamination will require storage until disposal either as High Level Waste or Low Level Waste.
The (EBR-II) bulk sodium measured a final concentration of cesium within the primary coolant of approximately 370 Bq/g of cesium before it was decommissioned (Newton et al. 2002). The contamination can be remediated with a suitable cesium trap system. The traps act as a filter for the sodium passing through it, trapping the cesium. Successive traps are installed until acceptable levels of cesium are achieved. The cesium traps will require shielding and storage and eventual disposition either as LLW or Greater Than Class C depending on the activity limits. The bulk sodium can then be drained and converted into anhydrous sodium hydroxide, which is a solid form that can be stored indrums.”
Close Proximity of Sodium Coolant Chemical/Nuclear Plant to Schools and Residential Areas.
The Port of Workington is surrounded by schools and residential areas. Northside Primary School for example, is less than 1 km from the proposed chemical/nuclear process plant
As described above, at Runcorn a housing development was turned down last year following a public inquiry as the residential area would have been just over 1 km away from the INEOS caustic soda and chlorine plant. The refusal, citing safety concerns, was without the additional concern of radioactivity.
As well as being close to schools and residential areas the proposed nuclear waste/chemical plant would be around 1km from “Siddick Ponds … a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), Local Nature Reserve and one of Cumbria’s most important bird sites. ”
Questions remain
Democratic Deficit
The proposal to import Japanese sodium coolant from the failed Monju reactor is being presented to the public as a fait accompli. The regional regulatory planning authority, Cumberland Council is acting as a promotional and facilitating arm of the nuclear industry rather than as an independent local authority responsible for planning oversight. We urge both Parish and Cumberland councillors to question this “partnership” with the developers.
How can Cumberland be both “partner” and planning authority especially on such a controversial, dangerous and largely experimental development?
Questions both here and in Japan
The lack of detailed information from the developers and their partner Cumberland Council has led to questions being asked in Japan by civic society groups of the JAEA and the Office for Nuclear Regulation.
These questions include:
● Media reports and the website of the receiving company state that the receiving plant does not handle radioactive materials. How, then, will the primary system sodium be handled?
Cavendish/Amentum JV win Monju D&D contract:
“Alkali Metal Processing Ltd., a joint venture between Cavendish Nuclear and Amentum, will construct, commission, and secure regulatory permissions for a new facility in the U.K. to treat nonradiological sodium coolant removed from the reactor. The sodium coolant is to be converted into sodium hydroxide for general industrial reuse.”
Cavendish Nuclear and Amentum awarded next phase of contract to support Japan’s Monju reactor decommissioning:
“The material, which presents no radiological hazards, will be safely converted into sodium hydroxide for general industrial reuse.”
And in many ways, a more pressing question, is:
● Given the supposed radiation-free nature of the sodium coolant, why is it being transported allthe way to the UK for processing?
In the UK, Radiation Free Lakeland asked the Office of Nuclear Regulation to detail the volume of sodium being transported; its chemical content; and its radiological content.
In reply, the ONR explained: “we understand that the Port of Workington will handle secondary sodium coolant, which is not radioactive and therefore not in scope of ONR’s purposes.”
However, according to Geomechanics July 28th 2026 Technical Brief, which discusses these exact proposals for the Port of Workington: “Construction phasing must separate conventional port works from nuclear-licensed zones with controlled access and radiological monitoring.”
The only reason for a nuclear-licensed zone is the presence of radioactive materials.
Radiation Free Lakeland have asked the Japanese Atomic Energy Authority the following questions:
●“Why is the sodium coolant proposed to be shipped to the UK when the companies involved are already working with their client, JAEA in Japan at the Monju?
●We would like to know:
a) the quantity of sodium coolant proposed to be imported.
b) details of the chemical content of the sodium coolant proposed to be imported
c) details of the radiological content of the sodium coolant proposed to be imported.
Conclusion
The Sodium Coolant Process Plant at the Port of Workington would be an unprecedented and dangerous development, putting residents and primary school children in direct danger of both chemical and potential radiological hazards.
These hazards have not been explained to the public by the developers, which includes the regional planning authority, Cumberland Council, as an enthusiastic and facilitating ‘partner.
There has been a lack of clarity on issues such as:
● Whether or not the sodium coolant will have radiological content
● Why the development needs to be a nuclear-licensed zone if it does not (as claimed) have radiological content.
● Why the coolant needs to be processed in the UK when the companies involved are already working with JAEA in Japan.
● Why the processing must turn one difficult-to-handle product (sodium coolant) into another which is potentially harmful in the event of an accident (caustic soda), given its proximity to residential areas.
● How a caustic soda plant can be considered safe to develop within 1 km of primary schools and residential areas in Workington when previously such areas have been prevented from development due to the presence of such a plant.
There is also a large question around the democratic processes in local government. Cumberland Council is the planning authority yet, without considering the safety aspects, has gone ahead to welcome the development without scrutiny or due process.
Briefing prepared by Radiation Free Lakeland
Russia’s Rosatom says truce in place for Zaporizhzhia power supply repairs.
Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom said a truce agreement
was in place as of Thursday to allow repairs at a thermal power station
supplying power to the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant
in southeastern Ukraine. It said the agreement was mediated by the
International Atomic Energy Agency.
Reuters 15th Oct 2026, https://www.reuters.com/world/russias-rosatom-says-truce-place-zaporizhzhia-power-supply-repairs-2026-10-15/
RAF reports mystery drones over Britain
Near misses occur days apart
during military exercises, with one object spotted at 17,000ft – 40 times
the legal height limit. Royal Air Force jets reported close encounters with
two unidentified drones in British skies this year, The Telegraph can
disclose. The near misses took place days apart during simulated air combat
training and an air-to-air refuelling exercise over the North Sea. One of
the mystery objects was spotted at an altitude of 17,000ft, more than 40
times the legal height limit for commercial drones. Incident logs seen by
The Telegraph show that the RAF reported the sightings to police and that
“multiple different external investigations” are ongoing. The incidents
occurred amid growing fears that hostile powers are using drones to spy on
the West.
Telegraph 16th Oct 2026,
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10/16/raf-mystery-drones-britain/
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