#TogetherAgainstSizewellC (TASC)

June 22, 2023

"#TASC is sorry to have to announce that the long-awaited #SizewellC judicial review decision went against us. Obviously, we are devastated by the news, but we assure our supporters that the verdict in no way signals the end of our efforts. Together with our lawyers, Leigh Day, we are examining all possible options open to us and, in one form or another, TASC's campaign will continue.

"This decision enables EDF and the UK government to carry on with their plans to construct two EPR nuclear reactors, even though the Sizewell C project still has no guaranteed mains water supply for the 2.2 million litres needed daily to operate. In TASC’s opinion, the UK government’s determination to risk £billions of #UK taxpayer funds to build #EDF’s flawed EPR reactor design on #Suffolk's eroding coast, without a guaranteed mains water supply required for its 60 years of operation in what is already a #drought-prone area, is a travesty and will prove to be a financial and #environmental disaster."

#ClimateCrisis #ErodingCoastline #Nuclear

https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/save-suffolks-heritage-coast-w/

On June 22, 2023, a UK judge dismissed the case against #SizewellC, threatening a fragile heritage site.

From the TASC website: "#SizewellC and all its supporting infrastructure will devastate untold acres of the wildlife-rich Suffolk Coast and Heaths AONB and its SSSI, as well as irreparably damaging RSPB Minsmere. The area, a 30 mile radius around the site, will change from rural tranquillity to brutal #Industrialisation."

#NaturalResources #SaveSuffolksHeritageCoast

https://tasizewellc.org.uk/

Nuclear is agonisingly slow (#SizewellC not ready for at least 13-17 years) & staggeringly expensive (#HinkleyC costs £33 billion) - meanwhile wind & solar are cheapest forms of electricity & ready to go *right now*. Starmer pushing wrong priorities, at wrong time, at wrong price

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CarolineLucas/status/1665674379009708033

Reasonable!

So far, also other potential backers such as Nest and Legal & General have said they do not intend to fund the project.

#SizewellC
#NPP
RT @dorfman_p: Top UK pension funds snub Sizewell C nuclear plan.

'Industry source said #Sizewell C would still not be an appropriate investment for ‘typical big-name UK pension schemes’, as they see the risk of cost over-runs and delays being too high.

#nuclear
https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-11697759/Two-UK-pension-funds-snub-Sizewell-C-nuclear-plant-plan.html

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/RebHarms/status/1620726568363646976

RT @StopSizewellC@twitter.com

.@jeremy_hunt@twitter.com just now: "despite the financial constraints we've prioritised #SizewellC" yet 2 things in his speech expose its problems: it's in the SE so won't help level up & "missing" workforce means workers will be hard to find/will disrupt the existing economy #StopSizewellC https://twitter.com/hmtreasury/status/1618896969166094339

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/StopSizewellC/status/1618915471566454785

Liar.
The waste heat heats the lido.
He's implying that there's a danger in using waste water.
There isn't.
He's a misinformation pedlar.

RT @dorfman_p@twitter.com

Couldn't make it up ...

'A lido (open air swimming pool) using waste water from the new Sizewell C nuclear power station is among proposals contained in a blueprint for the transformation of a neighbouring Suffolk town.' .....

#nuclear #sizewellc
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/23246201.suffolk-lido-linked-sizewell-c-towns-future-plan/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/dorfman_p/status/1614235422325882881

@PGBeattie
Agree yet they will benefit greatly from the ridiculous agreed cost of KW hours from #hinkley whenever it goes online and no they added cost to consumers from #Sizewellc the #tory having used #brexit to cut us off from Europe are now as you say having us subsideise the French Government😩

RT @CroPage@twitter.com

Very important point, and one that local residents recognise from regular encounters with bad weather. If nuclear power has a future (debatable) #SizewellC - indeed our entire crumbling east coast - is not in any way a suitable site #notonuclearpower https://twitter.com/SayNo2SizewellC/status/1611720282569379840

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/CroPage/status/1611834013852860416

RT @StopSizewellC@twitter.com

"From the disastrous track record of this type of reactor we remain convinced it is fundamentally flawed. The government is backing a turkey, and it would be madness to tear up the #Suffolk Coast without it being fully proven."
#SizewellC #StopSizewellC https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/23225503.sizewell-c-will-20billion-plant-fully-funded

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/StopSizewellC/status/1610611030572371970

RT @dorfman_p@twitter.com

UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy admits #nuclear has very long construction times, 13 to 17 years from final investment decision.

This means #SizewellC wouldn't generate power until 2036 and 2040 – far too late for #energy and #climate crises.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/dorfman_p/status/1609656415718723585

#SizewellC #FisionUK #NuclearUK plan appears about as flawed as possible as it's French partner is failing epically in France.

The cost is already obscene when instant power release of stored renewables is sorted by #Gravitricty etc

Wikipedia "... In 2022, UK Government announced a buy-out to allow for the exit of CGN from the project and forming a 50% stake with EDF.

https://www.economist.com/business/2022/12/12/can-the-french-nuclear-industry-avoid-meltdown

A free listen is the last part here
https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9yc3MuYWNhc3QuY29tL3RoZWVjb25vbWlzdGFsbGF1ZGlv/episode/NjM5Y2JlODAxNTdlMTgwMDExYzQ5ZDZl?ep=14

RT @NuclearObserver
Ultime Notizie del 30 Novembre 2022
#nucleare #energia #uk #sizewellc

Groen Engels parlementslid vat strategie van Groene partijen rondom kernenergie wel goed samen.

In 2008 was ze tegen omdat een kerncentrale ‘pas vanaf 2017 energie kon leveren’.

In 2022 is ze tegen omdat het pas ‘over 13 jaar energie kan leveren’.

In 2035… #eeuwiguitstel
RT @CarolineLucas: Bone-headed & senseless decision. Govt says #SizewellC is vital to meet 2035 electricity decarbonisation target, but *its own impact statement* found we won't get supply for…

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/jeroen_lenaers/status/1597882529763438592

But, yeah, let's get #EDF to build #SizewellC. What could possibly go wrong, eh?

RT @dorfman_p@twitter.com

1/2 of France’s #nuclear reactors offline, #EDF essentially bankrupt. €45 billion in debt, facing €29 billion loss this year, exponential radioactive waste and decommissioning costs, and estimated €50 billion bill for mandatory safety upgrades.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/dorfman_p/status/1597544922692796418

RT @CarolineLucas@twitter.com

Bone-headed & senseless decision. Govt says #SizewellC is vital to meet 2035 electricity decarbonisation target, but *its own impact statement* found we won't get supply for at least another 13-17 years - do the maths! Nuclear is hugely costly & simply can't help meet 2035 target

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/CarolineLucas/status/1597557986234630146

RT @CarolineLucas: Bone-headed & senseless decision. Govt says #SizewellC is vital to meet 2035 electricity decarbonisation target, but *its own impact statement* found we won't get supply for at least another 13-17 years - do the maths! Nuclear is hugely costly & simply can't help meet 2035 target

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/catherinerowett/status/1597568348606562304

Humm, am wondering if the #nuclear crowd have made it to mastodon yet... #sizewellC #edf #beis

RT @dorfman_p: UK Govt. can say what it likes.

Fact is, the city has fled nuclear, and if finance market investors don't take up the remaining majority 60% construction costs, Sizewell C is going nowhere.

#nuclear #SizewellC
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/nov/29/sizewell-c-nuclear-plant-confirmed-edf-suffolk-jobs-uk

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/CarolineLucas/status/1597627284948934656

Another reason from Caroline Lucas,
Green MP for Brighton Pavilion:
"Bone-headed & senseless decision. Govt says #SizewellC is vital to meet 2035 electricity decarbonisation target, but *its own impact statement* found we won't get supply for at least another 13-17 years - do the maths! Nuclear is hugely costly & simply can't help meet 2035 target"
https://twitter.com/CarolineLucas/status/1597557986234630146?s=20&t=mfDdSQ5p5_pxqyRtkkx9jQ

Another reason from Caroline Lucas,
Green MP for Brighton Pavilion:
"Bone-headed & senseless decision. Govt says #SizewellC is vital to meet 2035 electricity decarbonisation target, but *its own impact statement* found we won't get supply for at least another 13-17 years - do the maths! Nuclear is hugely costly & simply can't help meet 2035 target"
https://twitter.com/CarolineLucas/status/1597557986234630146?s=20&t=mfDdSQ5p5_pxqyRtkkx9jQ