Issue 11 March7- 17,1989. Weeks21 ,22
The only complete and clear account Centre Org.aniser Resigns Jill Sutcliffe, who has been running the Stop Hinkley Centre since the Inquiry started last October, has resigned in protest at the increasingly unfair treatment of objectors. Over the past month or so, the pressure on objectors have increased dramatically. Problems have in cluded regular changes in the time table, demands for ever shorter sum maries of evidence, and severe time limits on cross-examination. In some instances, witnesses have been dropped or objectors have been unable to appear at all. In many cases, people have arrived harassed and unprepared to make their state Making Women Visible mel)t. A:ll this has placed greater stress Over 100 women from all A Gallup Poll, taken in June last on the Stop Hinkley Centre, which over the South West came year, revealed that81%ofwomen are has become an office, social centre together at Cannington for against nuclear · power, said Liz and research library rolled into one, International Women's Day Baker of South West Women Against and is often filled to overflowing with Hinkley C. "Women already work an on March 8 (Day 80) to show average of 126 hours per week, caring nervous participants waiting to their opposition to plans for speak. for children, working inside and a third nuclear power station outside the home. So they have Against the odds at Hinkley Point. neither the time nor the information Their presence produced a certain to follow or participate in the Inquiry. In a press statement announcing her amount of nervousness and tension resignation, Jill Sutcliffe said that Today we want to make women amongtheusuallycalm-lookingmen visible." "it is incumbent on the Inspector to in suits from the Secretariat and the apply discretion carefully in favour CEGB. Thecarpark,normallyfull to Green candidate of disadvantaged individual objectors overflowing, was empty. Side doors Inside the hall, filled to capacity, and to demonstrate his understand to the Inquiry hall were locked and women sat calmly listening to ob ing of their position when they are police presence clearly in evidence, jectors giving evidence. These in making their contribution against including a surprising number of eluded Tessa Kelly, a prospective .,. policewomen. As women quietly filed European Parlia~~Candidate IN THIS ISSUE into the Inquiry hall, handbags were for We ~ ~~~ . searched. who c centl"8.ted or. IJH~ fac;t t~ Objectors concl~de safety evidence. Organiser resig r· e 6em:rt.I'es of Rome. COLA quizzed. Summaries explained. 2 March 7 - 17. 1989: Weeks 21. 22 Hinkley Inquirer MAKING WOMEN VISIBLE • CENTRE ORGANISER RESIGNS proposed PWR had a particular and the odds. By his insensitive actions, She added thather roleattheinquiry special impact on women. it seems that he is not willing to "is one of enabling people to pursue Firstly, women, foetuses and young facilitate public participation. their goal of appearing and making children are more sensitive to radi "Considerable sacrifices are made the Inquiry as 'user friendly' as ation, she said; secondly, women do by objectors attending this Inquiry, possible. However, in the light of my the caring tasks when family mem extending over finances, time, effort, observations I feel I have no option bers fall ill; and thirdly, women do s kills, personal and family com but to resign." most of the tasks connected with the mitments. It is now extremely dif Specific problems encountered by production of energy, except where ficult for the ordinary person's views objectors include: technology and advertising are in to be fully presented." *Less flexible timetabling, especial volved. ly in a topic (Safety and Health) Rumour had it that women from which concerns most people Greenham were going to stage a *Sudden shifts in appearance times, demonstration. In the event, six without consultation women wearing white masks - sym * Demands for shorter summaries, bolising women's invisibility at the often at short notice Inquiry - stood up in front of the *Early starts and late finishes to the Inspector. As they refused to take up daily sessions his invitation tositdown, the Inquiry * The ongoing lack of professional was adjourned for a brief period. advice, secretarial help or funding Outside the building, a women's for objectors theatre group staged a mock Inquiry, * Refusal to allow reading of a making the point that the govern statementon behalf of a witness who ment was not interested in the views In a statement submitted to the couldn'tappear. of ordinary people. Inquiry on Day 83, but which the Ms. Sutcliffe also complained, on Inspector wouldn't allow her to read behalf of the Welsh Anti-Nuclear in full, Jill Sutcliffe said that when Alliance, that no advertising had 2,000 Flights people decided to object, "the Public been done for the Cardiff sessions. Inquiry process becomes very per Responding to some of Ms. Sut sonal. It no longer remains a vast cliffe 's points on Day 84 the Inspector Over Hinkley bureaucracy. We expect it, quite said that £3,000 had been spent on reasonably, to work well for us, the newspaper adverts for the Cardiff public, and particularly when we meetings, and a press notice sent to Dr. Ray Seymour of the appreciate that our very lives are at 85 media outlets. He said the sugges Somerset County Analyst's stake ... tion that he was not concerned about department returned on Day objectors was "offensive". 78 to give evidence on User friendly However, it is apparent that dis Aircraft Crash Hazards "We have paid through our taxes satisfaction at the bulldozing nature (COLA 37). and electricity bills for the privilege of the Inquiry's progress extends to Seymour believes there are anum of being heard. But the truth is many others concerned with back ber of deficiencies in the UKAEA's that . .. we have no individual rights." ground facilities at the hearings. Safety and Reliability Directorate (SRD) assessments of aircraft crash hazard to the proposed Hinkley C as flight statistics were not accurate "Would you be content if the prob power station. ly available. ability of an uncontrolled release resulting from an aircraft crash was Crash rates of the m·der of 10-to-the-minus-7 or Seymour estimates the crash rates less?" asked Grove. averaged over England and Wales alone to be at least 1000 higher than Sleepless nights throughout the United Kingdom. He "I would be more content if it was a also believes that the frequency of an lot less. I would feel happier and sleep uncontrolled release of radioactivity better in my bed at night," Seymour from the proposed station is well in replied. excess of the CEGB's Design Cri On fast-flying combat aircraft, terion of 1 in 10 million per year., Seymour mentioned his correspon Dr. Seymourresponded vigorously dence with the Ministry of Defence: to cross-examination by Mr. Grove "I have had six letters from them. It One major deficiency is the lack of for the CEGB. Asked about his does not give me much confidence in estimate of the hazard from fast competence on assessment of air the MoD as the guardians of the flying combat aircraft. Many of these craft hazard, Seymour replied: "I am defence of the realm, frankly, be aircraft are low-flying and therefore not Chancellor of the Exchequer, but cause in these letters which flew back pose a potential hazard to the power I know that there are 100 pence in and forth they could not make up stations. It had been established every pound." their minds how many aeroplanes with the Ministry of Defence that On design criteria, Seymour em were flying from Yeovilton (air there were approximately 200 flights phasised that "we are considering base}". per month (2,400 per year) passing here a different site ... from Sizewell, Seymour was also concerned about over or adjacent to Hinkley Point. a differentaviationenvironment. We the Lilstock bombing range in the This was only an estimate, however, have got a new situation." Bristol Channel off Hinkley Point. Hinkley Inquirer March 7 - 17. 1989: Weeks 21.22 3 COLA Safety Case Quizze.d Accidental Several witnesses for the ginning to show glimmers of glas Consortium of Opposing nost, but only glimmers." Releases Local Authorities (COLA) on John Large (COLA 31), asked Malcolm Fergusson, Topic 2 were extensively about his conclusions on the radio- consultant to Earth cross-examined by the CEGB ac~i ve discharges from Hinkley C, Resources Research, gave during Weeks 20 and 21. pomted out that the controversial evidence on "The proposed reprocessing plant at Professor James Reason (COLA Wackersdorfin West Germany 1'had Consequences of Accidental 22) strongly criticised the Board been designed with the aim ofachiev- Releases of Radioactivity" (during questioning by Lord Silsoe) ing zero liquid discharges. (COLA 41). for failing to take human factors Anal sis mad 1 He questioned ~hether the con- seriously into account. y 1 t. d b t sequences of an acc1dental release of Reason described one CEGBreport L arge was a so ques 10ne a ou radionuclides could be determined on human reliability as "more to do COLA 39, describing his central with the necessary degree of con with advertising copy than with a theme as being that "the use of fidence. The new food ban levels serious technical discussion." He probabilistic risk analyses ... are required by the EEC were particu also accused the Board of com really quite inappropriate for high consequence industries like nuclear larly difficult, and could create, in the placency and arrogance. power stations." event of an accident, major agricul A statement by CEGB witness tural disruption over wide areas. Brian George on human error had "The whole industry has gone been made as though it had come probabilistic risk analysis mad," he from Mount Sinai, Reason suggested. warned. "It has gone beyond the It presumes knowledge of all the sound deterministic approach en ways in which all human beings, or gineers have adopted in the past." at least all those employed by the Large suggested that the PRA for CEGB in the control room, could the Titanic sinking might have been interact with the system. It is this 1 in 10 million. "In fact, the actual level of assertion which is very hard accident was 1 in 1. It sank on its for a professional psychologist ... to maiden voyage. Thts is the problem swallow." with PRA. It may tell you a chance, a gamble, but it does not tell you when." "If I look at the CEGB case I am confronted with statistics that are beyond my comprehension; a chance in once every 27 million years, a chance that a reactor will notdefault He thought the CEGB's approach and go into a major core degrade for to design safety was illogical and at as long as the world has been known odds with the probabilistic risk as to exist. This is absolute nonsense. sessment approach adopted by them No rational human being can balance in other areas. The CEGB's case did -Counties this sort of nonsense to the engineer not include a realistic analysis of - Olltrlclt ing practice of nuts and bolts." total consequences of a nuclear ac cident. Estimating the consequences of accidental releases from nuclear Cooling The power plants was so fraught with uncertainties that it would be pru Greenhouse dent to consider alternative power sources which engendered a lower Reason said that in "high re Nuclear power is not the level of societal risk. liability" organisations like US nu world's saviour from global Absolute confidence clear carriers, people woke up every warming, according to the day prepared for something to go Cross-examined by Lord Silsoe on wrong. "I do not see that necessary new Department of risk estimates, Ferguson replied·: "I basic requirement of humility, un Environment evidence think the difficulty is the require ease, disquiet within the CEGB's submitted to the Inquiry. ment for absolute confidence, or as statements." The DoE report, due to be discussed near as one can get to it, thatacertain Glimmers of Glasnost on April 11, does, however, give the level of risk has not been exceeded Reason argued that since the Size industry a role, alongside energy and never will be ... It is at that level well Inquiry "the attention of the efficiency, renewable sources and that it becomes extremely difficult ..." reliability world has been sharpened other fuels. "A wide range of options The problem is "that reality is by Chernobyl, by Piper Alpha, by may need to be considered to reduce unlikely to perform to our projec Kings Cross, by Clapham Junction, carbon dioxide emissions," says Dr. tions." by a whole series of recent events." David Fisk. Silsoe maintained that there had He accepted, however, that the CEGB Any participants wishing to cross been ample evidence from the CEGB was changing. "They are learning," examine Dr. Fisk should contact the on the consequences of accidents: he said. "They are expanding their Programme Officer, Keith Parker. design basis, containment bypass or hum~n factors field. They are be- His report is document DoE 3. degraded core. 4 March 7 - 17. 1989: Weeks 21, 22 Hinkley Inquirer Individuals Wrestle With.Safety Issues Following the completion of She also detailed some of the prob situation where the triumph of evo COLA's evidence on March 7 lems she'd encountered in trying to lution goes into a reverse process of (Day 79), a steady stream of locate S.77, "The TolerabilityofRisk". disintegration, and the very fabric of small groups and individuals At the local library two copies were organic life is undone." was unleashed -running at registered but neither were out on John Jenkins expressed concern an average of nine a day. loan nor could be found. "It re about safety considerations, includ inforced a sense of fragmentation - ing insurance liability, in a privatised Jesus Soul and James Mayes industry. "A private firm that en described the background to the here (at the Inquiry) we have experts death of Joseph Mayes, an electri whom it is almost a relief to see at a countered an incident such as Cher cian from Nottingham. In 1985, he loss for a word or a page, and nobyl would be bankrupted,"hesaid. was diagnosed by Nottingham City elsewhere, friends who, even if they Sally Lower, Helen Trenor and Hospital as having leukaemia, and are concerned about the Inquiry, Dickon Fell from Bristol all raised "the specialist had told him that the regard mention of some of its terms different aspects of the dangers of type of leukaemia he had must have and procedures as a sign that one has nuclear power. They stressed that definitely been the result of his penetrated remote lands where they Bristol is only 30 miles downwind physical body being overexposed to a would be lost." Her statement drew from Hinkley Point and therefore prolonged dose of radiation". warm applause from a full house. directly in the firing line. He was asked to go a way and think Cart Pickthall, who lives seven about where this might have hap miles from Hinkley Point, said that pened. Mr. Mayes had in fact been during his work on parts from the em played by Holiday Electrical Wir power station at a local engineering ing Company to do contracting work firm, he had asked for a particular on nuclear power stations. sample to be monitored for radio activity before it was worked on. The Pregnant thoughts CEGB refused, saying it was "against Alison Jarah, SHE's Treasurer and policy" and would lead to inn umer 8% months' pregnant,gaveevidence able similar requests. "This lack of as a local resident and mother of concern has made me even more almost three young children. She determined to object to Hinkley C," was naturally concerned about the he said. risks to health from normal op Apolitical concern eration, drawing attention to work Elspeth Hamilton, a designer, said done on leukaemia and the con she had gone to school near Wind sequences of a possible accident. scale and had therefore been living Mr. D. Onley (Swindon Green , 'if~ with "the nuclear experiment" long Party) said that the nuclear industry ... .-..:.~~~~ .....,... er than most. Her evidence spanned was "portrayed by a catalogue of ---- waste, cancers, structural faults and disasters", some of which he listed. the promise of therenewables. "Itis a "Radiation respects no frontiers," he measure of public concern that some said. "The people of Swindon will one as apolitical as myself is pre undoubtedly be affected, and yet at pared to spend the time and effort to no time have they been consulted." come to this Inquiry," she said. Michael Vaughan travelled from Jill Sutclif{e, whodescribedherself Haslemere in Surrey to deliver his as an MP (Member of the Public), evidence. As a self-employed de gave evidence on the considerable signer and builder involved in the uncertainties which still surround preparation of. architectural drawings the issue of radiation and its health and specifications, he knew "that the effects. "As ionising radiation is, so achievement of the highest stan far, the only known cause of child dards is not in practice possible hood leukaemia, a conservative ap unless the artisan has full respons Public opinion, particularly with proach must be adopted to nuclear ibility for the product. This condition reference to PWR safety, was the installations," she said. "The burden can never be fulfilled on a giant concern of May Morris. Dr. Taylor of proof is on the industry to show construction project involving a large (CEGB 8) had said in cross that these excesses are not related." and anonymous workforce and many examination: "I do not know what She referred to an urn her of studies different and complex procedures ... the public want. All I know is that the not mentioned before at the Inquiry, My purpose is ... to register my very democratic process will make the including a Greenpeace report on grave concern that atomic energy decision ..." excess leukaemias round nuclear should be the basis of a large-scale, submarine bases and a survey of the fundamental necessity such as energy Remote lands Sizewell A station workforce. production." Ms. Morris responded "that neither He also quoted Lord Hinton, for the expert nor public opinion of this Organic life mer head of the CEGB: "Mostofthe period has the right to lay on future Richard Carder, representing Bath mistakes on the Prototype Fast generations, whohavenovotenow,a Friends of the Earth, warned that Reactor have been made because system of risks which, if we accept there was already enough radiation engineers have thought they were them, will remain inescapable in the in the world. "Any further develop just that bit more Clever than any of future." ment of nuclear power may lead to a us really are." Hinkley Inquirer March 7 - 17. 1989: Weeks 21, 22 5 Individuals wrestle from evidence given at Sizewell by Dr. Richard Lawson (Woodspring Barbara Flick from New South Wales Green Party), who is a GP and a Peter Thomas, who has lived five and John Graham, a Southern district councillor, made a statement miles from Hinkley Point for 26 Tachone Indian from Sasketchewan. on the health effects of low level years, said he had served on Somer Groups appearing at Hinkley have radiation. Questioned by Michael set Community Health Council and been trying to bring in people to give Humphries for the CEGBto the effect gradually became concerned at the first hand evidence of the effects of that he was adding little new to the effec.t a further increase in stations uranium mining. argument, Dr. Lawson said that "as would have. The Health Council, Dr. Alan Blandford, a GP from knowledge unfolds and the more we after a debate on November 26, 1988, Shepton Mallet, pointed out that in know about radionuclides and their passed a resolution: "No further West Germany, "where n.uclear fis behaviour and their effect on life, the nuclear power stations should be sion was first achieved", 8mb of the more we find that there is damage." built in Somerset since the radiation population now fears a nuclear ac Penny Boyle had travelled from emitted from such a station can be cident. deleterious to health". At the time "it Caithness in the North of Scotland to was condemned by the then Hinkley appear at the Inquiry. She presented Station Manager as 'alarmist and the argument that the harmful ef inaccurate', but I believe that the fects of radiation had been "grossly resolution ... represents a respons underestimated". Very small en ible concern for the health of the hancements of background dose, community". whether artificial or natural, may Penny Price spoke about the issues cause germ cell damage to a greater affecting young people. "A few weeks degree than has been believed.ltmay ago, in the course of my work, I be this, rather than somatic cell visited the Samaritans in Yeovil," damage, that is primarily respons she said. "A voluntary worker there ible for the raised incidence around told me that they receive telephone nuclear installations. calls from teenagers who are so filled Boyle, who lives near the Doun with fear, and so depressed by the reay fast breeder site and was a constant threat of an uclear accident, regular attender at the 1986lnquiry that they are driven to contact the in Thurso, was questioned by Michael Samaritans for comfort and to be Humphries of the CEGB for 40 deterred from committing suicide." minutes. West Dorset Safe Energy Group She pointed out that the Dounreay gave evidence on safety, inadequate Inquiry "Inspector" -Reporter Bell emergency planning and economics. -hadsaidthat"thereis a cause for Within the first area they concen concern (on leukaemias) requiring trated on uranium mining, quoting further urgent investigation."
naticism, explosives and kamikaze Rome's Beautiful Web mentality, "I see no defences are possible... and when the CEGB Brian Rome (Bristol Flower plucked proposes siting a nuclear power Rome's evidence concluded that "out station with its radioactive inven Conservation Society), of this nettle, danger, the Inspector whose record-length proof tory of 10 billion Curies in a site from can plucktheflowerofopportunity" which the UK is downwind, I think it of evidence was headed enabling up to £2 billion to be "Dangers" - as opposed to is the height of irresponsibility ..." released for spending on "benign Fookes ended his questions by Safety- was given his own energy purposes". producing a faded leather-bound early evening session on Day Robert Fookes, for the CEGB, volume en titled The Colour of Rome, 79 to start reading his declined to question Rome in detail which he had found "looking through summary. He finished about his sabotage claims, referring my bookcase last night". He quoted reading during Day 80 and back to previous refusals to debate the first sentence: "Rome is the most was cross-examined on Day this "sensitive" subject. beautiful web that the hands of man Rome said, however, that "when 81. have ever woven." For once, the one extrapolates the growth in fa representative for ConSoc was Rome argued in his evidence that natic will and explosive power and speechless. Hinkley C posed a threat both from general political turbulence that has an unintentional internal accident occurred in many parts of the world, * * * and from intentional external attack. and especially the Middle East ... "The UK's21stcenturyenemiesmay and one extrapolates that forward Renewables report en visage a role for Hinkley C which is into the lifetime of Hinkley C, then I The Inquiry has spawned its first far more powerful than anything do believe that there is an extremely compilation. NATTA (Network for dreamt by the CEGB," he warned. large probability ofthe sabotage and Alternative Technology and Tech attacks that I mentioned." nology Assessment) has published a He quoted Alastair Good lad, Under 28-page report bringing together all Secretary of State for Energy, in Suicide attack references to renewable energy. "Re 1986: "The golden rule of safety is Referring to the suicide lorry attack newables and Hinkley" costs £3 that we must assume the worst- that by Shi'ite Muslims on US Marine from NATTA, cl o EERU, Faculty of anything which can go wrong will go barracks in Beirut, he said that when Technology, Open University, Wal wrong." you had that combination of fa- torJ Hall, Milton Keynes, Bucks. 6 March 7 - 17. 1989: Weeks 21. 22 Hinkley Inquirer Exeter Challenges Risk Figures Dr. Jim Penman, from probability omit many relevant fac Board had failed adequately to cor Exeter University's Energy tors." relate weather conditions with popu Studies Unit, returned to the Dr. Richard Erskine (ECND 6), a lation centres. "There is an assump Inquiry on Day 84 to read computer expert, supported Dixon's tion thatthereisa lin lOOchanceofa those sections of his earlier references to the possibility of large population being exposed to a evidence (Stop Hinkley computerfailureinacomplexsystem given release. Now if you have like a nuclear power station. Hinkley Point and the prevailing Expansion 5) which related "There are two fundamental prob wind is south-westerly, then Bristol to safety. lems in complex system design," he is down wind ... There is a correlation He made two basic points. Firstly, said. "Firstly, the impossibility of there which average calculations of that if actual nuclear accidents were defining requirements that will fully this nature don't take into account." assessed alongside mathematical inatch real-world behaviour for all Basque terrorists predictions, then the risk of a de possible operating conditions, and IuanDixon (Exeter CND 4) produced graded core accident or uncontrolled secondly, the phenomenon of'chaotic the most detailed evidence so far on release might be 100 times higher behaviour' that undermines deter the potential for terrorist attack or than estimated by the CEGB. Sec ministic predictions." blackmail at various points in the ondly, he warned that empirical evidence might well shift future estimates of radiation dose effects dramatically. Questioned by Michael Humphries for the CEGB, Penman said that although probabilistic risk assess ment was "a useful technique ... the map should not be mistaken for the territory ... In the popular mind, I think that the one in a million figure has quite a wide currency, and I think that is misleading because it is an estimate." Justifying his view that risk as sessment came up with widely ranging results, Penman said: "Be fore the Challenger disaster, there were a number of estimates made of the risks of the booster failing. These varied by three orders of magnitude. The highest risk was 1 in 70 per firing; but the lowest risk was 1 in 10"5• These were enormous differences."
Chaotic behaviour Downwind Bristol nuclear energy cycle, including spent Exeter Campaign for Nuclear Dis· Dr. Philip Webber, who co-authored fuel transport. He gave examples of armament also presented four proofs the book Something in the Wind: attacks on reactors in Spain by the of evidence on safety during weeks 21 Politics after Chernobyl with Dr. Basque group ETA, and in France by and 22. Erskine, and is Deputy Director of other groups. "It may be justa matter Ivan Dixon (ECND 5) followed Emergency Planning for South of time befo.re some group produces Penman in attacking the CEGB's Yorkshire Fire and Civil Defence its own version of Chernobyl," he risk assessments. "H the consequences Authority, produced further support concluded. (of an accident) are minor, then even ingevidence(ECND7)oftheCEGB's Dixon was cross-examined by the a high probability is acceptable," he "misleading methods" in approach CEGB, who quoted from a paper by said. "But if the consequences are ing the problem of radioactive security "expert" Major General heavy, then even a very low prob materials. Clutterbuck. This asserted that "nu ability is unacceptable. I hope to All three were cross-examined by clear flasks are very unlikely to be show that the possible consequences U>rd Silsoeforthe CEGB. During one selected as targets for attack, theft or are very large, and that the claims of exchange, Dr. Erskine said that the hijack."
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:-a:· have sound and reliable models for -. ·_- A\ ~ · the behaviour of the Irish Sea. They - - .J/-) chose the wrong sites for sampling and didn't conduct proper research into the distribution of radiation from Hinkley Point. He also believed that they failed seriously to in vestigate Tritium (which constitutes the greatest percentage of discharges) Tim Deere-Jones of the Irish and ignored significant exposure Sea Project gave evidence on pathways. Day 83. A founder member of David Gillam, also of the Irish Sea John Large, consulting engineer this small environmental Project, said that current cancer risk {or COLA on safety issues, came up research group set up five estimates could underestimate the with a quick excuse when stopped years ago to monitor the risks by a factor of 100. He believes recently for speeding. He announced that the current system of radio to the bemused constabulary that he dispersal of radioactive logical protection is not designed material in the Irish Sea, and his passenger had been pre properly to protect young children occupied laughing at particularly Deere-Jones lives in South and embryos from the harmful ef West Wales. amusing passages in the Hinkley fects of radiation. Consequently IPS Inquiry transcript. The Irish Sea evidence concen is suggesting a 25-fold reduction in trates on the impact of the radio the current legal dose limit. !PS active discharges from Hinkley Point believes that until a sensible legal The first political* * heavyweight* to on the marine environment and on public dose limit is established and tread the Cannington boards is due the health oflocal people. the radiological protection system is to give evidence for the National He claimed that neither the au overhauled, permission for Hinkley Union of Mineworkers next month. thorising departments nor the CEGB C should be refused. According to the latest forward ------programme, the Rt. Hon. T. Benn, MP, will head a team which also Worl The request for a summary varies Thursday April6 according to the length and com Evidence from COLA witnesses Pro plexity of the issues raised. At fessor C. Robinson (COLA 25) followed Sizewell, the first three months were DIARY by Coalfields Communities Campaign spent reading out evidence before witnesses Dr. M. Barrett (CCC 7) on the any cross-examination took place. relative economics of Hinkley C and coal This made issues difficult to follow as This programme is provisional and fired options, and M. Prior (CCC 8) on subject to change, so keep in touch with coal prices. well as taking up a long time. Under Keith Parker, Programme Officer (0278 Friday April 7 the new Inquiry Rules the shortened 444005 ext. 128) for up-to-date infor· Evidence from Coalfield Communities version of the evidence followed mation. Campaign witnesses F. Berkhoutand Dr. immediately by cross-examination T. Jackeon (CCC 9)on the "back end" of both keeps down the total time used Weeks 23,24 and 25 the nuclear fuel cycle, followed by an and enables the flow of the argument N. B. Starting time 9.30 am unless other- opening statementoftheNational Union to be followed. wise stated, finish about 5 pm. The of Mineworkers' case by A. Scargill The Rules statethatevidencemust Inquiry takes an Easter break from followed byNUMwitnessesT.Benn,MP., be in three weeks before a person March 24 to April3. D. Feick~rt. Dr. C. Sweet,J. Sweet and W. appears, although this has occas Patterson. ionally been relaxed. Summaries are Wednesday March 22 Tuesday April 11 usually asked for seven days before Cardiff session with statements from appearance. The Inspector announced Procedural matters. objectors. Evidence from the Department of the this week that he considered about Environment's Dr. D. J. Fisk on the 2,000 words (approximately 7 sides of Thursday March 23 (ends 1.30 pm) Greenhouse Effect (DoE 3) followed by paper)or a l~minutedeliverytimeto Cardiff session with statements from the start of Topic Three with CEGB be about right for a summary. objectors. Over 40 individuals and or witness F. H. Passant (CEGB 11) on our It can help to have someone else ganisations are already on the list to site waste management and decommis wield the editing pen over your work; speak. sioning. certainly some witnesses have found Tuesday Apri I 4 that useful. Styles vary and some Wednesday April 12 Procedural matters. Further cross-examination of F. H. people can be much more economical Cross-examination continues of F. P. Passant (CEGB 11) and concise with words. Penny Boy le Jenkin (CEGB 4 Add 5) on the economic kept her evidence very tight in style comparison of fossil-fueled and nuclear Thursday April13 and length, and a summary was not means of electricity generation. Further cross-examination of F. H. required. This is also likely to be the Passant (CEGB 11) followed by the case for submissions less than ten Wednesday April 5 Health and Safety Executive's J. Han pages long. Cross-examination of F. P. Jenkin naford (HSE/ NII 3). 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