Russian prosecutors respond to small town mayor – further answers may be unwelcome

“There is definitely evidence that on certain days, in certain meteorological conditions, that such [pollution] excesses have occurred,”

….According to studies by the Norwegian Institute for Air Research, the Sør-Varanger area is the country’s hardest hit by the KMMC’s pollution. Some 100,000 tons of sulfur dioxide and heavy metal emissions cross the Norwegian border yearly from the smelting plants……

Charles Digges, Anna Kireeva, 28/06-2013

http://www.bellona.org/articles/articles_2013/prosecutors_respond

Prosecutors in Russia’s Far North Murmansk Region, dogged by media reports of pollution and the legal threats of a vociferous small town Norwegian mayor whose region is getting the worst of it, were finally compelled this week to announce they were already investigating contaminating emissions as part of “planned” inspections.

The Murmansk Region prosecutors’ office earlier this week released the information that it was in the middle of conducting a planned inspection of the Kola Mining and Metallurgical Combine (KMMC) – a daughter company of Norilsk Nikel – to make sure it was in compliance with Russian pollution regulations.

The prosecutors’ announcements concerning their inspections to local papers followed directly on reports by Bellona, and other Norwegian and Russian media, that Cecilie Hansen, mayor of the northerly Norwegian municipality of Sør-Varanger intended to bring a police investigation into the emissions of sulfur dioxide and heavy metals from the KMMC’s smelting facilities, which have been billowing into northern Norway for decades.

A spokesman for the prosecutor’s office Thursday told Bellona that they “were not able to not react to the reports in the media.”

The ongoing routine inspections of the KMMC and other Kola Peninsula industries’ compliance with environmental norms in the Murmansk region does not, however, mean that pollution reduction measures satisfying Norwegian complaints will be undertaken.

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Loan guarantee for Hinkley Point C

When pushed to give an indication of the level of strike price EDF was seeking, Mr de Rivaz told us that the figure of £140/MWh was “rubbish”, but would not comment on the figure of £100/MWh

Jean-Paul Chanteguet, is reported to have stated that the revised build cost of Flamanville is expected to deliver a price for electricity at 74/MWh. It will be important to establish whether this is directly comparable to the UK context in relation to the ongoing negotiations for the strike price for Hinkley Point C.

28 June 2013

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN-Loan_guarantee_for_Hinkley_Point_C-280613ST.html

The UK government has announced that EDF Energy’s proposed Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant is eligible for a multi-billion pound loan guarantee.

In a speech to Parliament on 27 June, chief secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander outlined the government’s infrastructure plan, which includes measures aimed at enabling up to £110 billion ($167 billion) of private sector investment in electricity infrastructure by 2020. The plan includes the extension of the UK guarantees scheme by two years to December 2016. A guarantee under this scheme is expected to help EDF Energy to secure financing for its Hinkley Point C project at a lower rate than would be possible without government backing.

EDF Energy is planning to build two Areva EPR reactors at Hinkley Point. Planning consent for the estimated £14 billion ($21 billion) project was announced earlier this year, but EDF Energy is still locked in negotiations with the government over terms of the so-called contracts for difference (CfDs). These are intended to set a long-term price of electricity generation from low-carbon sources.

A key element of a CfD is the ‘strike price’- the price that generators receive for electricity. Should the market price be below the strike price, then generators are paid the difference; should the market price exceed the strike price, then generators must pay back the difference.

While the terms of the CfD strike price for the Hinkley Point C project are not yet finalised, the government has now announced the draft strike prices for renewable projects. These range from initial rates of £100 ($152) per megawatt hour (MWh) for onshore wind to £305 ($464) per MWh for tidal stream and wave technologies. The strike price for offshore wind would initially be £155 ($236) per MWh, dropping to £135 ($205) per MWh by 2019. The renewable CfDs would run for fifteen years and be linked to inflation.

The energy policies announced this week would result in £60 billion ($91 billion) worth of investment in new nuclear plants by 2030, according to energy and climate change secretary Ed Davey. CfDs form a core component of the government’s strategy to bring forward investment in affordable low-carbon electricity generation – including renewables, carbon capture and storage and new nuclear,”he said.

Researched and written
by World Nuclear News

UK spells out draft strike prices

The contract for difference (CfD) draft strike price for onshore wind will fall only modestly in 2018-19, to £95/MWh; for offshore wind the price will fall more sharply, to £135/MWh.

The government believes that CfD strike prices at these levels will deliver up to 16GW of offshore wind and 12GW of onshore wind by 2020.

Large-scale PV will receive £110/MWh in 2018/19, a level the government feels could deliver up to 3.2GW of capacity by the end of the decade. The government’s goal of 22GW of PV by 2020 is largely centred on….  (subscription)

http://www.rechargenews.com/wind/article1331059.ece

Building New Nuclear: the challenges ahead – Energy and Climate Change

Prepared 4 March 2013

At the most recent estimate, the price for each reactor at Hinkley Point C was expected to be £7 billion.[47] In the current economic climate, finding such large sums of money is difficult.

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Radioactive Beef found in Grocery Store in Japan

MsMilkytheclown1

27 June 2013

CODEX and food safety? The hidden world of radioactive food!

Published by nuclear-news.net

By Arclight2011

19 May 2013

The Japanese limits are based on the assumption that 50% of nationally distributed foods are contaminated

[…]

There is no new scientific information that supports the need of a new risk assessment.

https://nuclear-news.net/2013/05/19/codex-and-food-safety-the-hidden-world-of-radioactive-food/

South africa -1.6 million people living with dangerous radioactive contamination of food air and water!

 “Only around eight shacks, with about 35 families, were moved from this site,” says the community leader, pointing to a yellow outcrop of mine sludge, where Professor Chris Busby, a world expert in uranium, in December found radiation levels inside a shack 15 times higher than regulatory limits. “

https://nuclear-news.net/2012/11/17/south-africa-1-6-million-people-living-with-dangerous-radioactive-contamination-of-food-air-and-water/

“Do NOT come to Fukushima and do NOT eat the food products!” – Support evacuation instead!

Iitate 飯舘村 _Fukushima Hot spot

Published on 4 May 2013

http://www.yonaoshi311.com
Iitate radioactive Hot spot / 飯舘村 /Zone contaminée de Iitate
EN
We are on a road approximately 40km north-west of Fukushima Dai Ichi power plant near Iitate. The village is now a famous Hot spot with high levels of radioactivity.

https://nuclear-news.net/2013/05/05/do-not-come-to-fukushima-and-do-not-eat-the-food-products-support-evacuation-instead/

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