{"id":8719,"date":"2015-11-02T16:32:48","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T16:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=8719"},"modified":"2015-11-02T16:32:48","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T16:32:48","slug":"hinkley-nuclear-waste-can-be-a-threat-to-south-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/uncategorised\/hinkley-nuclear-waste-can-be-a-threat-to-south-wales","title":{"rendered":"HINKLEY NUCLEAR POWER PLANT: A THREAT TO SOUTH WALES?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Activists express concern over disposal of nuclear power waste from Hinkley power plant. Debate rages on as China signs\u00a0deal to invest in the plant.<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/hinkley-protest-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8853 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/hinkley-protest-2-300x271.jpg\" alt=\"hinkley-protest-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/hinkley-protest-2-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/hinkley-protest-2.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8853 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/hinkley-protest-2-300x271.jpg\" alt=\"hinkley-protest-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/hinkley-protest-2-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/hinkley-protest-2.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Activists have expressed concern over the disposal of nuclear waste from Hinkley power plant. The debate has gathered momentum after the UK government has allowed Chinese investment to the project during Chinese president Xi Jingping\u2019s recent visit to the UK.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">According to the campaigners, people in south Wales may be affected by the waste from the much-talked about Hinkley Point C nuclear power project.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Hinkley in Somerset in south-west England is only 20 miles away from Barry Island in south Wales across the Bristol Channel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cThis is the worst possible decision the Conservative government has taken and it is going to impact the next 50 generations,\u201d says Pippa Bartolotti, Wales Green Party leader.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As Chinese nuclear energy consortium signed a deal to invest \u00a36 billion in the Hinkley project, activists warn that there is no concrete plan to dispose nuclear waste.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Stop-Hinkley, the pressure group campaigning against nuclear power projects, had put up demonstration camps near the plant site during the Chinese president\u2019s visit, dismissed the government\u2019s assurance of safety and security of the plant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cMuch remains to be negotiated. They also need to resolve safety issues. The promoters have not yet resolved the issue at a similar plant they are constructing at Flammanville in Normandy,\u201d said Roy Pamphrey, spokesperson, Stop-Hinkley. \u201cOur fight will continue.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The activists opposing the nuclear power project at Hinkley in Somerset fear the lack of proper planning about disposal of nuclear power waste  which can be a threat to the south Wales. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":462,"featured_media":9552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>HINKLEY NUCLEAR POWER PLANT: A THREAT TO SOUTH WALES? 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