Celtic Recipes

Well over a decade ago cracking of the reactor core graphite records for places like Heysham were, the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (NII) told us, ‘closed documents’ did any politicians press the issue...Not that we are aware.

The issue of cracking of the graphite bricks which line the nuclear core of the UK's nuclear plants (see earlier post) is a deep seated one we had correspondence about this over a decade ago with Mike Weightman who was then the Chief Inspector of Nuclear Installations at the NII.

‘Oh for the good old days’! I thought when I saw this Manx Radio news story about a forthcoming financial soiree:

https://www.manxradio.com/…/international-tax-conference-t…/

I wonder will there be any shock horror revelations at this event or will it simply be one of those back slapping exercises where Manx Radio’s John Moss can run around breathlessly interviewing the financial service glitterati about all that's good and pure in our tiny ‘haven’ while Paul Moulton at MTTV tries to elbow him out of the picture.

Celtic League concerns about the continued operation of Hunterston nuclear power station have proved prophetic after it was revealed that cracks in the graphite core of the reactor are widening.

The Celtic League has highlighted concerns about a number of UK nuclear facilities which we believe are being operated beyond their sell by date to plug gaps in the UK's energy needs

In November 2015 EDF the plant operator said the operation of the cracked reactor core was safe:

Yesterday 8th March was International Women's Day. Interesting to see an item by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) or as it should be better described English Broadcasting Corporation. With their usual sleight of hand they wrote: "In 1919 Lady Nancy Astor became the first elected woman MP to sit in Parliament." Their little trick was to include the words "sit in". In fact the first woman to be "elected to" to the British parliament was Constance Markievicz (February 1868 – 15 July 1927).