Andy Blowers looks back over recent events and asks if there are signs that the tide has turned on Bradwell B in the BANNG column for the January 2021 edition of Regional Life magazine. ‘For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back through creeks and inlets making … [Continue Reading]
BANNG Press Release – 5th January 2021
Maldon District Council’s suggestion that Small Modular Reactors could be considered for Bradwell flies entirely in the face of its recent pronouncements. At its meeting on 17 December, Maldon District Council (MDC) voted by a majority of one in favour of a recommendation from its Bradwell B Working Group to send a letter to the … [Continue Reading]
It’s here because it’s here…
Andy Blowers reveals why Bradwell B came to be in the December 2020 column for Regional Life magazine If we were starting from scratch is it conceivable that the low-lying Dengie peninsula and the shallow Blackwater estuary could be chosen as a site for a gigantic two reactor, 2 GW power station, including cooling towers … [Continue Reading]
Climate change – Will Bradwell B sink the UK’s nuclear energy programme?
Andrew Blowers explains why climate change may spell the end for Bradwell B and big nuclear power projects in the BANNG column for Regional Life November 2020. Bradwell B – no solution to climate change In the Foreword to its recent Consultation, the developer, BRB, asserts: ‘Bradwell B would make a vital contribution to meeting … [Continue Reading]
climate change – hubris or nemesis for nuclear power?
Click the image above or here to read article in full
Is Bradwell B dead in the (Black)water?
Andy Blowers, chair of BANNG, considers this question in the October 2020 edition of Regional Life magazine. Over recent months the Bradwell B issue has moved so fast it has been difficult to keep up. Having spent twelve years leading BANNG, chasing the shadowy prospect of a new nuclear power station at Bradwell, its sudden, … [Continue Reading]
What does the loss of a new nuclear power station at Wylfa mean for Bradwell B?
Press Release – 22 September, 2020 News that the Japanese investor, Hitachi, has pulled the plug on the Wylfa new nuclear plant in North Wales has repercussions for the new nuclear projects on the East Coast, Sizewell C and Bradwell B, says Prof. Andy Blowers, Chair of the Blackwater Against New Nuclear Group (BANNG). The … [Continue Reading]
Suddenly it’s becoming exciting as Bradwell B gets political
Andy Blowers, Chair of BANNG, asks if recent council decisions will prove a decisive turning point in the BANNG column for Regional Life, September 2020 Councils’ initial response Bradwell B has been transformed from being, for most people, a subliminal, vague and distant idea to becoming a palpable, imminent, if still virtual reality. Suddenly the … [Continue Reading]
Maldon District Council deals another blow to Chinese hopes for Bradwell B
Press Release – 24 August, 2020 Maldon District Councillors, at a second time of asking, have pressed home their overwhelming rejection of Chinese developer CGN’s application for land investigations in connection with a proposed new nuclear power station at Bradwell. Chair of the Blackwater Against New Nuclear Group (BANNG), Prof. Andy Blowers, commented: ‘Maldon has … [Continue Reading]
Maldon District Council Planning Committee re-affirms refusal of BRB Planning Application.
STOP PRESS! – 21 August, 2020 The District Planning Committee of Maldon District Council has dealt a double blow to the plans of the developer of Bradwell B, BRB, to undertake further land investigations at its site. As a result of legal advice received, the Committee had been asked to reconsider at a meeting on … [Continue Reading]