Good News For Opponents Of Nuclear Power

We reported in the last Mailing the decision by two German nuclear power firms not to build new power stations at Wylfa, on Anglesey, and Oldbury in Gloucestershire, had thrown the UK nuclear industry into disarray. Now, the opponents of nuclear power have been encouraged further. The head of GDF Suez, a French company, has said he would want to see more government support before continuing with plans for a new plant at Sellafield.

Trident: Operating Costs

From Hansard

  Jeremy Corbyn: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the cost to the public purse was in the current spending round of the maintenance of Trident and all aspects of preparation for its successor.

Nuclear power

From Hansard

16 April 2012 Col 169 Nuclear Power Stations Martin Caton: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change whether secondees to his Department were involved in the preparation of the subsection of the Final National Policy Statement on Nuclear Power EN-6, June 2011, Volume 1, Part 2, e…

The Labour Party And Trident

Last month, we reported a speech by Nick Brown MP, chief whip in the last Labour government, in which he announced that he now opposes Trident replacement.

Hilda Murrell Meeting

The meeting to launch “A Thorn In Their Side", Rob Green’s latest book about the murder in 1984 of his aunt, Hilda Murrell, was so well attended that people had to be turned away.