Super Furry Animals call out alleged nuclear mud dumping at Hinckley Power Station
nme.comSuper Furry Animals have called on the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) to revoke the licence granted to EDF – which they claim has resulted in nuclear mud dumping in the Severn Estuary.In 2018, a group of activists took EDF to court to stop 300,000 tonnes of alleged nuclear mud from a Somerset power station being disposed of just outside Cardiff.
Now, the Welsh indie veterans have picked up the cause again.“We call on @The_MMO to stop EDF’s nuclear mud dumping,” the band tweeted on February 12. “The damage to the safety and wellbeing of our Severn Estuary, its marine life, and the coastal populations of #Avonmouth, #Bristol, #Cardiff, #Barry and beyond is incalculable.”They continued: “Dredged sediment from @hinkleypointc’s intertidal site – a significant area of radioactive, contaminated seabed – is being dumped in the waters off #Portishead.
Strong tidal currents whip up the toxic mud, depositing it across the Severn. Help stop the dump!”The 2018 legal action was fronted by the band’s keyboardist Cian Ciarán, who at the time told the Guardian: “I’m involved as a Welshman and a concerned earthling.
I felt compelled to play a part. I felt at a loss over the lack of action by the Welsh Labour government and the apathy of NRW.
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