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Dumping of Hinkley nuclear station mud closed – for now

Nuclear station mud dumping: first phase ends, BBC, 12 Oct 18 The first phase of the dumping of mud off the coast of Cardiff as part of work to build a new nuclear power station in Somerset has been completed.EDF, the firm building Hinkley Point C, said contractors have completed the work.

Campaigners had demanded more tests on the sediment, taken from a site in the seabed near the new facility.

But EDF said the sediment was not radioactive under UK law and posed no threat to human health.

A second phase of dredging is yet to take place with work potentially taking place in 2020. Campaigners had been concerned the sediment, which was dumped at a site just over a mile out to sea from Cardiff, could have become contaminated by discharges from the old Hinkley Point A and B sites……..

further dredging “will be required ahead of drilling the vertical shafts for the cooling water system for the new power station”. ……….Demands for the licence to be suspended were rejected in the assembly on Wednesday following a lively Senedd debate. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-politics-45837504

October 13, 2018 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | UK, wastes

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