Stop the next generation of nuclear power stations with a blockade at Hinkley Point

Join us at Hink­ley on 3 Octo­ber 2011

Hink­ley Point is the first of eight pro­posed sites for nuclear new build to go ahead. We stopped them here before, and we can do it again. If they fail at Hink­ley, it is unlike­ly the “nuclear renais­sance” will have the momen­tum to con­tin­ue.

Join us at Hink­ley on 3 Octo­ber 2011

Hink­ley Point is the first of eight pro­posed sites for nuclear new build to go ahead. We stopped them here before, and we can do it again. If they fail at Hink­ley, it is unlike­ly the “nuclear renais­sance” will have the momen­tum to con­tin­ue.

The cat­a­stro­phe is still unfold­ing at Fukushi­ma, but the British gov­ern­ment is con­tin­u­ing with its plans for build­ing new nuclear pow­er sta­tions – nuclear new-build. While oth­er coun­tries at least put a mora­to­ri­um on new nuclear, or even make plans to phase out nuclear ener­gy com­plete­ly, in Britain it’s as if Fukushi­ma didn’t hap­pen. Like a mantra, gov­ern­ment and the nuclear indus­try keep repeat­ing that Fukushi­ma could not hap­pen in Britain because there are no earth­quakes of that mag­ni­tude. We heard sim­i­lar excus­es after Cher­nobyl (1986) and Three Mile Island (1979). But nuclear acci­dents can and do hap­pen – even in Britain; the dis­as­ter at Wind­scale in 1957 released mas­sive lev­els of radi­a­tion into the atmos­phere. If we con­tin­ue to use and expand nuclear pow­er, there will cer­tain­ly be more cat­a­stroph­ic acci­dents, not to men­tion all the oth­er enor­mous prob­lems asso­ci­at­ed with nuclear pow­er pro­duc­tion, even when it is work­ing ‘nor­mal­ly’.

Nuclear pow­er is not nec­es­sary, not safe, not sus­tain­able

More back­ground at http://stopnewnuclear.org.uk/

We can stop new nuclear

The gov­ern­ment and the nuclear indus­try want us to believe that nuclear new-build in Britain is a done deal. They want to dis­cour­age us from protest­ing – the mes­sage they want us to swal­low is clear: oppo­si­tion is futile, and we will be going ahead any­way!

How­ev­er, that could­n’t be fur­ther from the truth. Yes, the gov­ern­ment has intro­duced a frame­work which effec­tive­ly will sub­sidise new nuclear at our expense – as elec­tric­i­ty con­sumers and tax­pay­ers. Yes, the gov­ern­ment has effec­tive­ly deprived local com­mu­ni­ties from hav­ing a say in the plan­ning process for new nuclear and oth­er major infra­struc­ture projects thus dump­ing a cru­cial cor­ner­stone of local democ­ra­cy.

But nuclear new-build in Britain is already behind sched­ule and has faced legal and oth­er set­backs. Pub­lic con­cern is mount­ing fol­low­ing the Fukushi­ma dis­as­ter. If we can stop the build­ing at Hink­ley, we can stop the whole process. Now is the time to mobilise and take action.

New-nuclear in Britain is far from being a done deal, and we can still stop it!

NEW NUCLEAR — STOP IT AT HINKLEY!

The action:
A non-vio­lent block­ade of Hink­ley Point nuclear pow­er sta­tion in Som­er­set

On 3 Octo­ber 2011 we will – with hun­dreds of peo­ple – non-vio­lent­ly block­ade the access to Hink­ley Point nuclear pow­er sta­tion for one day.

While the block­ade will be the key focus, there will be plen­ty of roles and activ­i­ties for peo­ple who do not wish to risk arrest. So every­one who is anti-nuclear can come and join us on the day to express their oppo­si­tion in many dif­fer­ent ways. We will pre­pare our­selves for this block­ade with non-vio­lence train­ing, and we will not be deterred by police try­ing to pre­vent our non-vio­lent action.
The block­ade will be inclu­sive, allow­ing peo­ple from all walks of life and with a wide range of expe­ri­ence in non-vio­lent action – or no expe­ri­ence at all – to par­tic­i­pate. We will organ­ise a safe envi­ron­ment for every­one, built on trust for each oth­er, but also on our deter­mi­na­tion to stop nuclear new-build.

In the days before the block­ade, there will be local actions in Bridg­wa­ter. There will be a camp and local accommoda­tion for peo­ple over the week­end and non-vio­lence train­ing will be pro­vid­ed.

* Call­out for action — http://stopnewnuclear.org.uk/node/10

* Sign one of the pledges at http://stopnewnuclear.org.uk/pledges.

This is impor­tant, as it shows the strength of the cam­paign, and helps us to organ­ise the block­ade.
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Stop New Nuclear is a cam­paign to stop new nuclear pow­er sta­tions and is an alliance of Cam­paign for Nuclear Dis­ar­ma­ment, Stop Nuclear Pow­er Net­work UK, Kick Nuclear, Stop Hink­ley, Sizewell Block­aders, Shut­down Sizewell, South West Against Nuclear, and Tri­dent Ploughshares

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