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Advice to Stop Hinkley

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Enquiry

From
Stop Hinkley
Date advice given
15 July 2010
Enquiry type
Phone

DECC have recently announced that consultation on the Nuclear Power National Policy Statement (NPS) will be pushed back to spring 2011. What are the consequences of this if, as intended, the application for Hinkley C comes in December 2010?

Advice given

If the NPS remains in draft when the Hinkley application is determined, then the IPC will make a recommendation to the Secretary of State, who will make the decison. If the NPS is designated whilst the application is being examined and before a decison is made, then an IPC Commissioner will make the decison.

Referred Mr Duffy to an earlier entry on the register of advice (16/06/2010 to Kimberley Jeakings - GVA Grimley) on the topic of a draft NPS's weighting as a policy document.