News and Media coverage

The on-going GDF fight

The Guardian 3 March - Theddlethorpe

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/03/itll-be-a-shortlist-of-one-villagers-in-england-fear-nuclear-dump-proposal?fbclid=IwAR022InbO_tKU8dcJ1fK8lE1dHXTJRfqx_VfJ8-DevFntFArrSFGluhCPSg

ITV News 7 March - Theddlethorpe protest

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid049ovFAisse56eQfYvG1eRK7ft72do21ptcia6CBj4uECNycUmtJ6mkwX9y9Dtaotl&id=1403397596

The Telegraph - On-line 8 March - The Italian version

Further GDF coverage at bottom of page

South Holderness GDF

Press Release 8 February

East Riding of Yorkshire Council

YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@eastridingcouncil-committe4103/streams

Graham Stuart's Channel

Graham Stuart's announcement 25/01/24 https://www.grahamstuart.com/news/graham-calls-nuclear-waste-referendum

Graham Stuart's Newsletter January 2024 https://www.grahamstuart.com/newsletter

Graham Stuart's statement 7/2/24 https://www.grahamstuart.com/news/graham-backs-nuclear-waste-withdrawal

Graham Stuart admits defeat 21/2/24 https://www.grahamstuart.com/news/graham-writes-nuclear-minister-confirm-nuclear-waste-services-will-end-south-holderness

BBC LOOK NORTH

SADLY BBC IPLAYER CONTENT IS ONLY AVAILABLE FOR 24 HOURS

SO THE CLIPS BELOW ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE TO SCREEN - BUT WE DO HAVE A RECORD

Graham Stuart's first interview on the GDF

25/01/24 18:30 BBC Look North East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire
Starts 8:38, interview 9:48

Conservative party transcript:

https://www.grahamstuart.com/news/graham-calls-nuclear-vote-holderness-look-north?fbclid=IwAR1qspyRxiIc-B_y5XmI-u6_95gvoGw9UuoxdJRoKBbgb9JIuRiYcK9jwWU

Patrington Drop-in

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001vwt8/look-north-east-yorkshire-and-lincolnshire-evening-news-01022024

Starts 9:04 also https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-68168424

South Holderness GDF first interview

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001vxt4/look-north-east-yorkshire-and-lincolnshire-evening-news-02022024

Starts 6:30

Sunday 4 Feb Evening News

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001w47h/look-north-east-yorkshire-and-lincolnshire-evening-news-04022024

Starts1:04

Graham Stuart supports withdrawl

https://www.grahamstuart.com/news/graham-backs-nuclear-waste-withdrawal

Starts 9:19

Aldbrough Drop-In post Graham's statement

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001w4j3/look-north-east-yorkshire-and-lincolnshire-evening-news-08022024

Starts 13:56

Monday 12 Feb Evening News

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001wdf8/look-north-east-yorkshire-and-lincolnshire-evening-news-12022024

Starts 18:00

Area considerd for radioactive waste disposal

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-68082963

MPD wants vote on nuclear waste disposal

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crg7nlwnz59o

First Public Meetng

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-68168424

Nuclear waste facility 'will blight community'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-68187340

Graham Stuart opposes Holderness nuclear waste site 7 Feb

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-68233882

Final public meeting to discuss South Holderness nuclear waste plan

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-68256818

Lincolnshire group offers support to East Yorkshire group

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-68293205

Council to vote on ending Holderness nuclear waste talks

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-68350061

Council votes to end Holderness nuclear waste talks

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-68350061

Holderness and Hornsea Gazette

https://holderness-gazette.co.uk/councillors-call-for-authority-for-withdraw-from-nuclear-waste-discussions/

https://holderness-gazette.co.uk/public-to-be-consulted-on-nuclear-waste-storage-proposal/

https://holderness-gazette.co.uk/mp-calls-for-local-referendum-on-nuclear-waste-proposals/

https://holderness-gazette.co.uk/nuclear-storage-proposals-its-not-a-done-deal-and-you-are-not-alone/

https://holderness-gazette.co.uk/whole-community-should-have-their-say-on-nuclear-waste-issue-says-third-south-east-holderness-ward-councillor/

https://holderness-gazette.co.uk/i-will-not-be-supporting-gdf-plans-says-east-riding-council-leader/?fbclid=IwAR21V6BM31xuhDdL3lnbcXI0R60vhVYcg7oII9CeoPPOqX_gE7WAlJD6dN4

https://holderness-gazette.co.uk/council-to-vote-on-motion-to-withdraw-from-gdf-talks/

https://holderness-gazette.co.uk/councillors-vote-to-withdraw-from-nuclear-talks/

Hull Daily Mail

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/proposed-nuclear-waste-site-holderness-9058557

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/nuclear-waste-could-stored-deep-9055923?utm_source=mynewsassistant.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=embedded_search_item_desktop

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/holderness-nuclear-waste-site-seems-9090538

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/government-minister-confirms-end-nuclear-9130909

The Yorkshire Post

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/environment/nuclear-waste-could-be-stored-deep-under-yorkshire-for-175-years-under-new-proposals-4492046

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/people/why-us-holderness-residents-on-government-plans-to-bury-nuclear-waste-under-remote-yorkshire-coast-4503190

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/politics/yorkshire-nuclear-waste-dump-councillors-to-call-for-east-riding-council-to-withdraw-from-process-after-public-outcry-4509552?fbclid=IwAR1KW1POX0FHavRik-hRBWAOfz_ooqwfgCgVKMOxXt8MmvJIRSXLZdyA_7o

Nuclear Waste Services responds to council’s withdrawal from South Holderness Working Group

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/nuclear-waste-services-responds-to-councils-withdrawal-from-south-holderness-working-group?fbclid=IwAR1gw04qJosaMH0J_GXAATr65BKYTIbrmOifq7du3DACQ4W47nxeuLIVTzU

GB News (sic)

https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1756584214890184986?s=20&fbclid=IwAR2HFu5yrv1ahHaksM2LYtoQe6zxtvXp1sbWvvpMCXpQaExlCtrP12siPNY

https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/nuclear-waste-services-consulting-south-holderness-as-possible-nuclear-waste-disposal-site-25-01-2024/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-68082963

https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2024-01-25/plan-to-store-nuclear-waste-under-east-yorkshire-for-175-years

https://www.neimagazine.com/news/newsanother-uk-community-expresses-interest-in-hosting-geological-disposal-facility-11476934

Other news

Sellafield Leak 12/23

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/05/sellafield-nuclear-site-leak-could-pose-risk-to-public#:~:text=Sellafield%20is%20trying%20to%20extract,for%20more%20than%20three%20years

New power stations 02/24

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/feb/12/uk-government-hitachi-talks-nuclear-power-station-wales-wylfa?fbclid=IwAR0vnCGj4odS0424rHdCOm7xYU3gusiFCPMEI233tUSd8vBZi12LiXHWAwc

Nuclear waste disposal: the challenge of our time? Steve Reece (NWS)

https://constructionmanagement.co.uk/nuclear-waste-disposal-the-challenge-of-our-time/

Withdrawl of Allerdale GDF 09/23

https://www.geplus.co.uk/news/cumbria-location-ruled-out-for-geological-disposal-facility-29-09-2023/?fbclid=IwAR1qkGUNbxBAJ_wAC0kNmtciRRytWB7mioShf_SXSf9WR42XZtws2Tq_6-o

Areas of Allerdale identified itvX 2021:

https://www.itv.com/news/border/2021-10-05/areas-of-allerdale-identified-as-potential-cumbrian-radioactive-waste-store

South Copeland Events 2024:

https://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/24082657.south-copeland-host-nuclear-waste-disposal-information-events/

BBC 2023 report on the Finish GDF:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230613-onkalo-has-finland-found-the-answer-to-spent-nuclear-fuel-waste-by-burying-it

This is the Coast coverage 02/24

https://www.thisisthecoast.co.uk/news/local-news/call-for-referendum-on-holderness-nuclear-waste-site-proposal/?fbclid=IwAR3qfkFWdTmlzN_AwsPIJrtTKw_LO5xWyEnghbEXskBPvry1G6h4NNR0GvU

NBC on New Mexico shutdown 2014

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/radiation-puts-new-mexico-nuclear-waste-site-shutdown-mode-n31946?fbclid=IwAR0kGhu9LHCZ9RJNN1fgmGM7sT6fq7GToiIC50Nm_C1j6lR9NFTUFJbcnJE

The Guardian on New Mexico shutdown 2015

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/01/new-mexico-radiation-accident-73m-compensation-deal-struck-over-leak?fbclid=IwAR2wGqOkToitkr9-xxFziAHbRb0yxk9O-utbrsAsfWy3jWZvbng8G0UqQQs

North East Bylines report on the decision not to go ahead in Hartlepool 2021

https://northeastbylines.co.uk/hartlepool-nuclear-waste-and-a-council-civil-war/?fbclid=IwAR0Cvs5Wl4IMo0JPpiE7K7o4m_Rf6b4_5j1HIvqseb3J-mKJjp2UwoSebqQ

How to Dismantle and Nuclear Reactor - BBC Sounds 2015

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b04wwgzf

How to Dispose of Nuclear Waste - BBC Sounds 2022

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct30xm

Coastal erosion

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/locals-billionaires-view-living-edge-32043511

Accomodation for workers

https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/regional-news/dad-living-pontins-brean-sands-9005726

Waste from other countries 12/04

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2004/dec/15/energy.greenpolitics?fbclid=IwAR2U5pZATr8ATD4noDO6y4aJikJd48wEv6P6EmDVNNSPdctvz0c8zm94P7I

BBC Simon Reeves looks inside Sellafield

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00123r2/the-lakes-with-simon-reeve-series-1-episode-3

National Audit Office to investigate Sellafield 2/24

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/feb/15/spending-watchdog-launches-investigation-into-sellafield?fbclid=IwAR32Jje1pDQBW77hmN7Hd_aJ5gAZIOWULDdgcfjwbipfevAqtMiFVYlm-KM

Last train from Winfrith to Sellafield 2/24

https://www.railfreight.com/railfreight/2024/02/14/south-of-england-site-signals-its-final-nuclear-shipment/?gdpr=deny&fbclid=IwAR3Dyjcozudm95584akeG43I1nQe_W7SYniumt6RR6up8JNBcL12d3CwTSw&gdpr=accept

Nuclear Waste Services engages market on £1.5bn contracts for geological disposal facility 5/24

https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/nuclear-waste-services-engages-market-on-1-5bn-contracts-for-geological-disposal-facility-20-05-2024/

Nuclear Decommissioning Authority's annual statement from last year put future costs at £124bn across the UK 4/24

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/snp-uk-government-row-over-32644089

The Telegraph series 5-6/24 (all behind paywall)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/05/05/66bn-nuclear-graveyard-became-expensive-challenge/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/05/16/nuclear-waste-stored-650ft-under-english-countryside/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/06/08/inside-rural-french-site-teaching-uk-nuclear-waste-disposal/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/27/nuclear-waste-undersea-storage-geological-disposal-facility/

UK / Changes Of Radwaste Disposal Policy ‘Could Save £500 Million In Storage Costs’ 5/24

https://www.nucnet.org/news/changes-of-radwaste-disposal-policy-could-save-gbp500-million-in-storage-costs-5-1-2024

NWS seeks contractor for Drigg 8/24

https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/nuclear-waste-services-seeks-contractor-for-46m-of-site-works-at-cumbria-waste-repository-28-08-2024/

Which rural area will take the UK’s nuclear waste? 9/24

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czx6e2x0kdyo
(there was an accompying piece on BBC Breakfast on 09/09/2024 from 07:21 - 07:25)

How we’re making progress towards building a geological disposal facility for nuclear waste in the UK 9/24

https://www.politicshome.com/members/article/were-making-progress-towards-building-geological-disposal-facility-nuclear-waste-uk

The power of leveraging strategic partnerships to deliver value 9/24

https://www.politicshome.com/members/article/power-leveraging-strategic-partnerships-deliver-value?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpNODyfv8iAMVMpiDBx22Bxf7EAAYASAAEgIz-vD_BwE

Comment: Nuclear GDF is vital for UK’s future 9/24

https://www.theengineer.co.uk/content/opinion/nuclear-gdf-is-vital-for-uk-s-future

Orano appointed in assurance 10/24

https://www.niauk.org/orano-secures-a-position-on-the-nws-disposability-assurance-support-framework/

NWS CEO steps down

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/nws-ceo-corhyn-parr-to-step-down-in-march-2025 11/24

Nearby sites as alternative to Theddlethorpe 11/24

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3e8pex248yo

Switzerland GDF site propsal lodged 11/24

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/applications-lodged-for-swiss-waste-disposal-facilities

Germany's hunt for GDF site 8/24

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/what-do-nuclear-waste-storage-question