CANE - Coalition Against Nuclear Energy South Africa

Fears over France’s nuclear reactors have been raised as the government orders ground water tests at its 58 power stations, after a uranium leak at one polluted local water supplies.

The safety lapse at a plant in Provence run by French nuclear giant Areva has raised questions over President Nicolas Sarkozy’s drive to roll out reactors around the world – in Britain but also in states with less stringent safety norms.

* John Sauven
* guardian.co.uk,
* Friday July 18, 2008

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/

Just this week Prime Minister Gordon Brown confidently assured us that the UK was at the forefront of a global “nuclear renaissance” and that within a few years we’d be home to at least eight bright, shining new reactors. We’re told a week is a long time in politics, but it must seem an absolute eternity to the ever more bedraggled British nuclear industry.

· A week after MPs criticise accounts, numbers go up
· Repairing broken reactors brings cost total to £83bn

# Terry Macalister
# The Guardian,
# Friday July 18, 2008

The credibility of the nuclear industry was shaken last night after the estimated cost of cleaning up Britain’s atomic waste was raised by a further £10bn.

A proposed nuclear power station at Thuyspunt would be a disaster for the environment and tourism in Jeffrey’s Bay and St Francis Bay, the Supertubes Surfing Foundation said on Monday.

“Local and international surfers … will not fancy a surf in radioactive waves at one of the best right-handers in the world,” said the organisation, which takes care of beaches and protects sand dunes in Jeffrey’s Bay.

The organisation said seawater would be used to cool the proposed plant’s condensers and then returned to the ocean.

The Government wilfully suppressed renewables to make space for nuclear to be reborn, argues Jeremy Leggett