Today a report slamming the new build plan has been handed into Cumbria County Council, The National Park Authority, Natural England, Friends of the Lake District. The report will also be sent to the leaders of neighbouring European countries. There is a CONsultation taking place on the AP1000 reactor design – we found out only by accident through social media – and this CONsultation ends on the 30th November (while all attention is focused deliberately on the pylons). Please use the information below to write in your own words to the Office for Nuclear Regulation. Urge the Office for Nuclear Regulation to refuse a Design Acceptance Confirmation (DAC) and Statement of Design Acceptability (SDA) for the AP1000 reactors.
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A new report by Edinburgh Energy and Environment Consultancy and written by Pete Roche has been commissioned through crowd funding by campaign group Radiation Free Lakeland. Former US Nuclear Regulator Arnie Gundersen has described the AP1000 reactor design as “Chernobyl on steroids” One problem identified by Gundersen is that during an accident if there were just a small failure in the steel containment vessel of the AP1000 reactor, the radioactive gasses inside the reactor would leak directly into the environment, because the gasses would be sucked out the hole in the top of the AP1000 Shield Building in what is known as the chimney effect.
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