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Sellafield Mox Plant Axed by Fukushima Fallout –Says SEPT 9, 2011 | No. 732 SELLAFIELD MOX PLANT AXED BY FUKUSHIMA FALLOUT –SAYS NDA In what came clearly as a surprise to the gathering of Sellafied stakeholders, the SELLAFIELD MOX PLANT closure of the Sellafield MOX Plant (SMP) was officially announced at West AXED BY FUKUSHIMA Cumbria Site Stakeholder Group (WCSSG) August 3 meeting. The decision had FALLOUT –SAYS NDA 1 been made at an NDA Board meeting last week on the grounds that the commercially impotent plant no longer ‘had customers or finance’. ANTI-NUCLEAR OPPOSITION GROWING IN JORDAN 2 (732.6161) CORE - In its press state- to where the contracts would come from ment, the Nuclear Decommissioning and whether the ‘overly technical and THE AFTERMATH OF Authority (NDA) says the decision was complex plant’ could actually produce FUKUSHIMA IN INDIA 3 reached following discussions with Ja- the goods to customers’ rigid specifi ca- panese utility customers on the impact tions. JAPANESE GROUPS DEMAND: on the Japanese nuclear industry of the "SAY GOODBYE TO NUCLEAR earthquake in March, including potential Built to manufacture 120 tons of MOX POWER" 4 delays that would effect SMP’s projected fuel per year, and with an operating lifes- program. The Board concluded that in pan of 20 years, SMP produced no fuel US: COMPLETION OF order to protect the UK taxpayer from a whatsoever until its third year of ope- CONSTRUCTION OF 1970's future fi nancial burden, closing SMP at ration and a total of just 13 tons in its 9 REACTORS 6 the earliest practical opportunity was the years of operation which saw a number IN BRIEFS 8 only reasonable course of action. of contracts having to be sub-contracted to SMP’s arch-rivals in Europe. Despite CORE’s spokesman Martin Forwood dire warnings in 2006 and 2007 from said today: “We shed no tears for a Government commissioned consul- white elephant plant that should never tants Arthur D Little (who had originally have opened in the fi rst place. Had the provided Government glowing reports NDA genuinely wished to save taxpay- of the plant’s prospects) that without ers money, it should have grasped the further investment the plant would never many opportunities provided during operate as originally planned, the NDA SMP’s sorry commercial lifetime to put it continued to support its operation and out of its misery. The NDA has effec- in so doing wasted an estimated BP 1.4 tively passed the buck to Japan do its billion (US$ 2.25 bn or 1.6bn euro) of dirty work for it and take the blame”. taxpayers money. The prolonged battles to get SMP built A fi nal lifeline was thrown to SMP in and operating, including legal chal- 2010 by the NDA involving a prolonged lenges, had already provided ample closure for complete refurbishment to be warning to Sellafi eld that the commercial fi nanced at an estimated cost of BP 200 prospects for the plant were less than million by Japanese utility customers, robust. With the fi rst planning applica- with the lead customer for the ‘revam- tion to the Local Authority made in 1992, ped’ SMP identifi ed as Chubu Electric’s SMP fi nally opened with the introduction Hamaoka plant. Dubbed in Japan as of the fi rst plutonium in 2002 and only ‘the most dangerous atomic facility in then after fi ve public consultation exerci- the quake-prone archipelago’, Hamaoka ses stretching between 1997 and 2001. was forced to close earlier this year by Focusing specifi cally on the economic the Japanese Government’s demand for business case for the plant, the later seismic tests and safety improvements. consultations raised serious doubts as With the postponement of any further 1 use of MOX fuel in Hamaoka’s reactors, August 3 stakeholder meeting that there hell-bent on repeating its own very SMP’s sole contract and lifeline was was the prospect of a new MOX plant recent and taxpayer-costly mistakes on lost. being built and, for their part, the Unions MOX. Whilst they may wish to ‘appease expressed some confi dence that the the natives’ with the prospect of a new Martin Forwood added: “As widely workers could be redeployed elsewhere plant, there is no evidence whatsoever expected by all but Government and In- on site. that suffi cient MOX demand worldwide dustry, the ‘cast-iron’ assurances in the exists or will exist – particularly in the late 1990’s from its then owner British SMP’s closure has however opened the UK where many of the proposed new Nuclear Fuels that suffi cient business proverbial can of worms, particularly in reactors may never get built. This is would be secured from Japan to warrant respect of a new MOX plant being built. pie-in-the sky stuff and they should be the plant’s operation were worthless, The current rationale behind the NDA’s concentrating instead on putting the with SMP failing to secure even one thinking appears to be that as long as dangerous plutonium stockpile perma- Japanese contract during its operatio- Japan’s program of MOX use has not nently out of harm’s way and treat it as nal lifetime. It is ironic that it should be completely sunk under the waves of the a waste by, for example, using SMP and the very customers it was built to serve tsunami and the Fukushima catastrop- its current workforce to immobilise pluto- who have switched off its life support he, the 13 tons of Japanese plutonium nium in ‘low-spec’ MOX for disposal”. machine”. recovered by reprocessing at Sellafi eld might yet be converted to MOX in the Source: Press release CORE, 4 August SMP directly employs around 650 wor- new plant which could also be used 2011 kers and the NDA announcement of its to reduce the 110 ton stockpile of UK Contact: Cumbrians Opposed to a closure has drawn the expected outcry owned plutonium for use in the UK’s Radioactive Environment. Dry Hall, on job losses and prophecies of gloom new-build reactors. The cost of a new Broughton Mills, Broughton-In-Furness, and doom for Sellafi eld which historically MOX plant has been put at around BP Cumbria LA20 6AZ, UK. and routinely accompany the slightest 1.4 billion. Tel/Fax: +44 (0)1229 716523 threat, genuine or otherwise, to any of Email: [email protected] the site’s commercial facilities. As com- Martin Forwood further commented: “It Web: www.corecumbria.co.uk pensation, the NDA suggested to the beggars belief that the NDA appears ANTI-NUCLEAR OPPOSITION GROWING IN JORDAN Last December, the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC) announced the relocation of the site for the construction of the countries first nuclear reactor from Aqaba to Balaama near Mafraq, some 40 kilometers northeast of the capital, due to "lower construction costs". As weeks and months have passed since the announcement the prevailing sense of surprise among local residents has gradually turned into resistance. In a country with few natural resources and a rising energy bill, opposition is now mounting towards a national nuclear program officials maintain is key to the Kingdom’s energy independence. (732.6162) WISE Amsterdam - From a sit-in in front of Mafraq Municipality to Burgan is another one of several Jorda- crowded offi ce supply store in downtown protest against the nuclear program. nians spearheading efforts to unplug the Mafraq, a group of concerned citizens Some protesters dressed in yellow nuclear program before the fi rst reactor are launching opposition against nuclear shirts to express their rejection of atomic revs up in 2020. “When we talk about power. They are part of a coalition power, while others who wore white environment, when we talk about health, known as Irhamouna (Have mercy on us overalls and gas masks lay down on the when we talk about cost, it just doesn’t or give us a break), a loose grouping of ground to highlight the risk of nuclear make sense,” Burgan said. (sometimes) prominent Mafraq citizens, pollution on humans. The demonstra- geologists, lawyers and youth activists tion, organized by Greenpeace Jordan Jordanian nuclear offi cials and the who have mobilised against the planned and Irhamouna marked the growing nati- anti-nuclear camp are split over the nuclear reactor. onal movement against nuclear power potential impact of the nuclear program and was the fi fth anti-nuclear protest on the budget and the benefi ts for the Although the movement is only four since May. It came as energy offi cials local economy. AEC quotes a US$4 to months old, it boasts 2,500 active in Amman vet technology vendors for US$5 billion price tag for the construc- members and over 10,000 followers the country’s fi rst nuclear reactor. “We tion of a Generation III nuclear reactor, on Facebook as it attempts to raise sent a peaceful message today to the a cost that would be spread out over a awareness on the potential pitfalls of Prime Ministry, the Royal Court and the seven- to eight-year period. Anti-nuclear nuclear energy by holding protests and Ministry of Energy that we do not want activists claim that according to 2011 hosting in between a series of door-to- a nuclear reactor,” Irhamouna coordina- prices a reactor would cost the Kingdom door information sessions with friends tor and Mafraq resident Nidal Hassan closer to US$10 billion, nearly twice and neighbors. told The Jordan Times in a telephone the national budget, accusing JAEC of interview. glossing over “hidden costs” such as On August 16, scores of environment security, water pumping and a required activists and Mafraq residents held a Environmentalist and activist Basel upgrade of the national grid.
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