Beyond Nuclear International Weekly Digest MONDAY, MARCH 6, 2023
Posted: 6th March 2023
The costs of new nuclear power plants keep soaring to eye-watering heights. Yet, our governments ignore this and plow on with the most expensive construction projects in the world. And anti-nuclear activists scored a rare victory in court when a judge allowed their law suit to proceed that would seek to block the production of more plutonium pits at the Savannah River Site and Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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Insane costs, insane decisions
The costs for the Hinkley Point C (UK) and Vogtle (US) new nuclear plants, both twin reactor projects, keep soaring and the delays keep extending. What manner of madness is it to insist on continuing with the world’s most expensive - and unfinished - nuclear power plants? Meanwhile, SMRs have out-priced them and they’re still just pipe dreams. READ MORE
Plutonium is the pits
According to a judge’s ruling, activists will now be able to bring a lawsuit against the US Department of Energy’s plan to quadruple plutonium pit production for new nuclear weapons, to be manufactured in New Mexico and South Carolina. The suit was prompted by DOE’s failure to adhere to the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act. READ MORE
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