nuclear-news

Opinion:

¶ “The business benefits of using renewable electricity” • The business sector is the largest consumer of power in the UK, buying around 56% of the electricity. Even a modest switch to renewable power could take a big step towards the government’s 2020 renewable target, and the switch can produce savings that outweigh the cost. [Telegraph.co.uk]

Eon solar farm

Science and Technology:

¶ According to the energy market analysis firm RepuTex, “clean” coal technologies will not be commercially viable before 2030 without government subsidy. In Australia, the rising price of gas, coupled with the falling cost of energy storage, has made renewable energy the least expensive source of reliable power generation. [The Guardian]

World:

¶ Just months after launching its residential battery storage offering in Australia, Germany battery maker Sonnen has introduced a household solar and storage deal that threatens to disrupt the traditional retail…

I’ve joked before that it would be just a matter of time before the Tories started taxing solar panels rather than subsidising them. Well, now its happening. To help pay for the ever increasing cost of brexit they are putting up business rates. And within this tax hike they’ve sneaked in a clause that withdraws certain exemptions to business rates meaning they will now apply to those selling electricity to the grid via solar feed in tariffs. And we’re not talking a minor increase here, a 6 to 8 fold increase in taxation is expected for some operators, effectively making some solar installations uneconomic.

This is not the first time they’ve tried to pull this trick, they tried it before prior to the referendum, but were forced to back down, when the media caught them at it. Oddly enough they blamed the EU on that occasion for forcing them…

300 boreholes being drilled at “Moorside”  actually this is a vast 1400 acre area between the once farming hamlet of Sellafield and the village of Beckermet.  The area covers several farms including Greenmoorside from which “Moorside” insensitively takes its name.  Where is Melvyn Bragg?  Silent!!!

The News and Star reported this week on the “devastation” felt by a Cumbrian farmer who has been given a year to leave the land in order to make way for “Europe’s biggest nuclear development.” There are many more farmers who will lose their land and livelihoods.  Some farms would be  immediately buried under the 1400 acre area earmarked for the diabolic nuclear reactors and associated sprawl.  Others would inevitably lose their livelihoods in the future from inevitable accidents and incidents should Moorside go ahead.

The wildlife both marine and terrestrial that would be left devastated by Moorside both immediately and in the future is…

Opinion:

¶ “This Is Why Winter Is Important” • In normally cold regions, the record-setting heat  –  and the opportunity to wear shorts and drink iced tea in February – might seem like a blessing. But for the ecosystems we depend upon, the shortened winter threatens turmoil. Climate change is causing what is called “season creep.” [CleanTechnica]

Plants are regrowing leaves weeks ahead of schedule.
(Source: National Phenology Network)

¶ “Reasons for Japan to dump nuclear power more obvious now than ever” • It has been nearly six years since three reactors melted down at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The disaster has stolen so much from so many, and it is clear that real recovery will be a decades-long struggle with reconstruction and decommissioning. [The Mainichi]

¶ “Why US corporations are buying into home-grown wind power” • North Carolina first commercial-scale wind farm is just…

Toshiba Westinghouse who run the Springfields site also constructed Fukushima Daichii

March 11th 2017 will be the 6th anniversary of the ongoing Fukushima disaster.

Radiation Free Lakeland invite people to join them in a vigil to remember and to send a message to the nuclear industry that no amount of electricity is worth the kind of damage a nuclear accident inflicts on our sea, air, soil, fresh water and on our children.

Meet outside the main gate of  Springfields Nuclear Fuel Plant  – Salwick, Nr PRESTON  at 2.30pm on March 11th to light a candle and hold a vigil. 

People will be at Kirkham Train  station for 2.00pm to share lifts to the Springfields site.  

Please bring along  daffodils to lay at the site. 

We will read out a statement by the former Japanese PM Naoto Kan who having seen Japan through the early days of the Fukushima disaster…