Hinkley C silo collapse report delayed

Posted: 16th December 2020

CAMPAIGNERS from Stop Hinkley demonstrated outside Hinkley C last week ask
why a report into a silo collapse at the plant has not been filed six
months after the incident. On June 10 the silo, which contained
ground-granulated blast furnace slag, partially collapsed creating a huge
dust cloud at the nuclear power plant but luckily no one was injured. An
investigation was launched into the incident by EDF and a report was due to
be submitted this year. But so far no report has been sent to the Office
for Nuclear Regulation (ONR). In protest, six members of Stop Hinkley held
up placards outside the power station on Thursday (December 10) to ask EDF
why no report about the incident has been submitted. Roy Pumfrey, a
campaigner for Stop Hinkley, said: “When is a serious industrial accident
not worthy of a formal investigation by an independent body? “Apparently,
when a large silo collapses at Hinkley Point C depositing hundreds of
tonnes of ground slag with such force that local residents think the noise
is an explosion, it doesn’t qualify. “The regulator for the HPC build
appears content with the length of time EDF is taking to come up with a
report of what they think happened. “Obviously, it takes time to find all
the bits of metal that the silo disintegrated into, analyse them for faults
and come up with a hypothesis for what happened. “This incident matters
to people living in the vicinity of HPC because accidents happen on nuclear
sites.

Bridgwater Mercury 15th Dec 2020

https://www.bridgwatermercury.co.uk/news/18943524.protest-no-report-sent-six-months-hinkley-point-c-silo-collapse/