Beyond Nuclear International Weekly Digest, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Posted: 5th February 2024

The price of the two-reactor Hinkley Point C project in the UK will top $59 billion and Britons will have to pay for it, a colossal and needless expense, writes Linda Pentz Gunter. When the US accidentally dropped nuclear bombs on Spain that fortunately were not armed, the incident was downplayed and diminished despite widespread radioactive contamination, writes Maribel Hernàndez of Alianza por el Desarme Nuclear.

Hinkley nuke will top $59 billion

The French nuclear company, EDF, bragged that its twin reactor EPR project at Hinkley Point C would be ready to roast Christmas turkeys by 2017. Instead, the only turkey is the plant itself, now expected to complete “after 2029” with a price tag at $59 billion, making it the second most expensive building in the world. British ratepayers will shoulder the costs with rates far above market prices. READ MORE

When the US nuked Spain

58 years ago, a US B-52 bomber collided with its refueling plane and dropped the four thermonuclear bombs it was carrying on the small community of Palomares in Spain. Fortunately, none exploded, but two dispersed plutonium across a wide area. Deadly when inhaled, the plutonium dust still remains in the ground almost six decades later. We publish a report of the little-known disaster in English and the original Spanish. READ MORE

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