The decision to review the Hinkley Point C project presents an opportunity row back from the plans to build a new power station at Bradwell, a group campaigning for the complete and permanent closure of the Essex site has argued. The Blackwater Against New Nuclear Group (BANNG) has said the Government’s postponement of the Hinkley Point project in Somerset will have consequences for other nuclear projects in the queue, not least for Bradwell which was gifted last autumn to the Chinese in return for their support in shoring up French energy giants EDF. But if Hinkley goes, it is not clear whether it would take down Bradwell in its wake or whether the former nuclear site would rise as a “phoenix among the Hinkley ashes”, the group has said.
Essex Chronicle 3rd Aug 2016 read more »