In early December last year NuGen submitted its application to the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) for a licence to undertake offshore geotechnical investigations within West Cumbria’s inshore waters. The application is in support of its plans to build three AP1000 reactors at Moorside. The focus of the investigation will be the location for the sub-seabed … [Continue Reading]

Moorside Land Grab by NuGen, with compulsory purchase on the cards, sees the “biggest construction project in Europe” more than double in size – from 200 to 552 hectares of farmland adjacent to Sellafield. Consultation documents published by NuGen on its new-build plans suggest a belated realisation by the developer that, given the topography, geology … [Continue Reading]

An assessment published today by CORE titled ‘All Spin and No Substance’, reveals the extensive threats facing NuGen’s impossibly tight timeline for its Moorside project where the construction and operation of three Westinghouse AP1000 reactors is scheduled to be completed in a period of just six years (2020-2026). In countering the consortium’s spin, CORE’s assessment … [Continue Reading]

As reported in the Whitehaven News today, Copeland Borough Council’s planning panel, acting against planning officials’ advice, have rejected an application for one 30m high wind turbine for Peterburgh Farm near the village of Beckermet. Whilst regular readers of the newspaper will be familiar with the frequent rejection of wind turbine applications by Copeland Council … [Continue Reading]

For an arm of the Government specifically tasked in 2005 with the clean-up and decommissioning of the UK’s dirty and deteriorating nuclear licensed sites, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s announcement today (E-bulletin, 30th September) that it is to pour £13 Million of taxpayers’ money ‘to help develop innovative technologies for the current and next generation of … [Continue Reading]