Hinkley Point communities must receive 'fair and reasonable benefits'

“Any community that hosts a nuclear plant will benefit directly. This is not a burden. The influx of thousands of building contractors for years pumping their money into the local economy and then there is the hundreds of full time employees that will man the plant for decades. Then there is the refueling outages that will again boost the local economy on a regular basis. I have visited numerous communities and have seen the benefits of hosting a nuclear plant first hand. Do your homework before you jump on the stop hinkley band wagon.”

“Hinkley C would bring no benefits to the local community. It would double the site's discharges of poisonous radioactive gases which since 1965 and continuing to the present day are causing premature deaths and heritable genetic mutations. We are now seeing second and third generation birth defects, life expectancy in Somerset is increasingly lower. EDF must not be allowed to continue with their corporate manslaughter criminal activities. Nuclear is not low carbon, not safe and not economic. The two Hinkley B AGR reactors are on the verge of core collapse but nuclear regulators have just given in to the licensees and donated yet more taxpayers' money into a life extension of ten years. The national decommissioning contract which is currently out to tender does not require the contractors to put the safety of workers or the public before their own profits. The regulators refuse to order the re-sealing of the two Magnox reactors in spite of discharges through vents installed in 2006 causing an exponential increase in perinatal mortality throughout Somerset. Caesium 137 discharges are causing cardiovascular premature fatalities. The latest scandal is an increase in premature fatalities from central nervous system illnesses like Motor Neurone Disease, Parkinsons Disease and Multiple Sclerosis. The Health Protection Agency refuse to act or even to investigate. Anyone thinking of working on the new Hinkley C should be warned that they risk their own lives and the lives of their children, that's if their fertility is not so damaged by radiation exposure that they cannot produce any children. None of this is necessary; EDF could abandon Hinkley C, shut down Hinkley B, enforce safety regulation for Hinkley A. They could then build wind and solar farms on all their UK coastal nuclear sites and invest in the Severn Barrage which will provide more electricity than three nuclear sites, for half the cost, for twice the operational lifetime, with no risks to the public or the workers, no spent fuel, no waste. Germany are showing us how to get all their energy from renewables by 2030; we can join the European Grid and save lots of money. It really is not rocket science; go to the Stop Hinkley website to learn more.”