With permission – Ziggi – Suffolk Artist Andy Blowers argues that the latest Report on Climate Change means that plans for Sizewell C and Bradwell B must be abandoned in the BANNG column for Regional Life September 2021 About fifty miles up the coast from Bradwell, the iconic white dome of the Sizewell B nuclear … [Continue Reading]
Climate Change the big issue for nuclear power on the East coast
PRESS RELEASE – 8 September, 2021 Climate Change the big issue for nuclear power on the East coast According to Andrew Blowers, Emeritus Professor of Social Sciences at the Open University, Climate Change has become the overriding issue facing the future of the proposed Sizewell C and Bradwell B nuclear power projects on the East … [Continue Reading]
Nuclear Power at Bradwell: past, present and future…?
Peter Banks, BANNG’s Coordinator, takes an overview of past nuclear developments at Bradwell and what might be in store for the future in the BANNG column for the August 2021 edition of Regional Life. Locally here, all around the Blackwater Estuary, the twin towers of the reactor buildings of the former Bradwell A nuclear power … [Continue Reading]
BANNG welcomes news of possible Chinese withdrawal from Bradwell… (but counsels caution)
Press Release – 26 July, 2021 The Blackwater Against New Nuclear Group (BANNG) has welcomed the news of the possible withdrawal of the Chinese project to build a gigantic nuclear power station at Bradwell but has struck a note of caution. ‘BANNG has campaigned against a new nuclear power station at Bradwell for the past … [Continue Reading]
No Room for Nuclear…
David Elliott, Emeritus Professor of Technology Policy at the Open University, explains why renewables are the power of the future in the July 2021 column for Regional Life. The flat landscape of the Dengie peninsula is punctuated by the massive grey blue hulk of the former Bradwell A nuclear power station and by a line … [Continue Reading]
Bradwell is no soft touch for Nuclear’s Fusion Fantasy
The announcement that Bradwell is on the long list of fifteen sites being considered as a possible site for the UK’s prototype fusion energy plant has gone down like a lead balloon. Chair of the Blackwater Against New Nuclear Group (BANG) Professor Andy Blowers, described the proposal to develop fusion, essentially the process that goes … [Continue Reading]
BANNG Press Release – 8th June 2021
‘Unsustainable, unmanageable, unacceptable and unsuitable’. Nuclear waste expert urges Government to ditch both Bradwell B and Sizewell C projects now. An international expert on radioactive waste management and sustainable development has written to the Sizewell C Examining Authority declaring that both Bradwell B and Sizewell C should be abandoned as a whole now to avoid … [Continue Reading]
Essex Heritage Coastlands – a world we must not lose
Andy Blowers suggests we need to find a phrase that captures the essence of the Essex Coast in the June 2021 column for Regional Life. What do you think? The Essex coastline is remarkable for its length, at 350 miles the longest of any county in England, its more than thirty islands and its estuaries, … [Continue Reading]
Bradwell B – What’s all the fuss about?
Andy Blowers looks at why radioactive risk generates anxiety and opposition to nuclear energy in the BANNG Column for Regional Life May 2021 What is it about nuclear energy that causes most people instinctively to react against proposals such as the new nuclear project at Bradwell? The answer is, it is all about RADIOACTIVE RISK, … [Continue Reading]
What’s it all about?
Andy Blowers speculates on the real reason behind the Environment Agency’s recent public consultation on Bradwell B in the BANNG column for the April 2021 edition of Regional Life magazine Time to regroup The February announcement by Chinese nuclear developer, CGN, that it would pause all project work and engagement on Bradwell B for ‘at … [Continue Reading]