Heysham

Heysham nuclear power station

Posted Mon, 27/09/2010 - 9:34pm by admin

Heysham Power Station is a nuclear power station located in Heysham, Lancashire, England, operated by British Energy. The site is divided into two separately-managed stations, Heysham 1 and Heysham 2, both of the advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR) type, with two reactors each. In January 2009, EDF Energy bought out British Energy, and the Heysham sites have now been made into EDF Energy existing nuclear sites.

On 18 October 2010 the British government announced that Heysham was one of the eight sites it considered suitable for future nuclear power stations.

Map Point: 

NOW IS THE TIME FOR PERMANENT CLOSURE: A RESPONSE TO THE TEMPORARY CLOSURE OF NUCLEAR REACTORS AT HEYSHAM 1 AND HARTLEPOOL.

Posted Sat, 16/08/2014 - 6:45pm by Martyn Lowe

NOW IS THE TIME FOR PERMANENT CLOSURE: A RESPONSE TO THE TEMPORARY CLOSURE OF NUCLEAR REACTORS AT HEYSHAM 1 AND HARTLEPOOL IN 2014.

by Tim Blades

In May 2014 Noam Chomsky gave a lecture at Durham University during which he quoted American General Lee Butler:
'we had so far survived the nuclear weapons era “by some combination of skill, luck, and divine intervention, and I suspect the latter in greatest proportion.”.” (1)

Boiler Problem Closures at Hartlepool and Heysham.

Posted Thu, 14/08/2014 - 10:48am by Martyn Lowe

A statement from the Nuclear Free Local Authorities.

Why has it taken EDF 9 months to close down Hartlepool and Heysham
nuclear reactor after the problem was originally found?

http://www.nuclearpolicy.info/docs/news/NFLA_EDF_Heysham_Hartlepool_clos...

Further notes on NFLA Media Release (above)

New energy secretary’s appointment underlines unhealthy relationship between government and nuclear sector

Posted Tue, 07/02/2012 - 5:13pm by admin

Anti-nuclear campaigners have slammed the decision to appoint Ed Davey as the new Energy and Climate Change Secretary as further evidence of the unhealthily close relationship between the government and the nuclear energy sector.

Campaign group, Kick Nuclear, has learned that Davey’s brother, Henry, is a partner at Herbert Smith, a law firm that has a long-standing relationship with the nuclear giant EDF Energy. Herbert Smith’s website declares that it is, ‘proud to be at the vanguard of next generation nuclear in the UK’.

Legal challenge of government justification for new nuclear / video

Posted Sun, 01/05/2011 - 11:46pm by admin

Rory Walker of the Heysham Anti Nuclear Alliance talks about the legal challenge to the government's justification for new nuclear.

EDF Energy targeted by anti-nuclear campaigners

Posted Mon, 11/10/2010 - 12:00am by admin

Press release: for immediate use