Nigel Cann This is Me

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1. 1. www.stophinkley.org

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   Published on: 6/2/2008   Last Visited: 7/27/2008

   Nigel Cann's zeal for nuclear expansion at Hinkley Point, Somerset, is not surprising, given his role as director of Hinkley B, but there are other sides to the argument.
   
   His reactor has not been "generating electricity safely" for its 32-year life.
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   It's astonishing that, as Mr Cann says, Hinkley B has been given a life extension to 2016, given a catalogue of serious problems.
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   So much for the industry being "quite rightly more closely regulated than any other industry", as Mr Cann puts it.
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   It said that replacing all our existing reactors could reduce our carbon emissions by a paltry four per cent (this figure was also hidden at the back of the Government's last desperate consultation on nuclear power, referred to by Mr Cann).
   
   On the other hand, cheap and safe energy conservation measures alone could axe our carbon output by a massive 30 per cent. Renewables could help this figure substantially and be brought on more quickly than nuclear.
   
   ELECTRICITE de France, which Mr Cann supports building Hinkley C, has shown its colours in the recent buyout of the West Hinkley wind farm.
   
   Although nuclear supporters claim to be in support of renewable energy and energy conservation, as Mr Cann suggests, the industry's massive buying power has elbowed out Somerset 's best hope of a decent, clean renewables project.
   
   And Mr Cann helped to torpedo it with his spurious objections to the local council that accidental "blade throw" from a wind turbine 500 metres away could damage the reactor he claims can "withstand the impact of a potential terrorist attack".Which is it, Mr Cann?
   
   On the subject of security, he argues that Hinkley's "dedicated armed police force" will protect us from the unthinkable consequences of a terrorist attack.
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   While dismissing the thorny problem of nuclear waste, Mr Cann failed to say how long nuclear waste remains toxic.
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   I think Mr Cann goes too far when he boasts everyone in the industry is "proud of their contribution to the UK ". There are too many serious fault lines in his risky and polluting industry.

2. 2. www.stophinkley.org

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   Published on: 5/28/2008   Last Visited: 7/27/2008

   COMMENT by Hinkley Point B station director, Nigel Cann:
   
   WHY NEW HINKLEY N-PLANT IS NEEDED

3. 3. British Energy - News Article - New station director at Hinkley Point B

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   Published on: 2/1/2007   Last Visited: 7/13/2008

   British Energy's Hinkley Point B nuclear power station has a new man at the top after Nigel Cann took over as station director.
   
   Nigel CannNigel, previously plant manager at Sizewell B in Suffolk, took over from Les Francis who served 17 years at Hinkley Point.
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   Nigel said: "The Station's focus will be to safely return Hinkley Point B to service.
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   Nigel Cann, 42, has worked in the nuclear industry for 26 years, having started his career at the Kent Magnox station Dungeness A in 1981 as a Maintenance Technician.
   
   In 1988 he moved across the fence to the advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR) Dungeness B, where he worked his way up though the ranks from electrical maintenance engineer to reactor desk engineer, control room supervisor and finally shift charge engineer.
   
   In 2001 Nigel took on his first of four managerial roles at Dungeness B as outage manager followed by assistant operations manager, maintenance manager and plant manager.At the beginning of this year he moved on to fill the same role at the UK's only pressurised water reactor (PWR), Sizewell B in Suffolk.
   
   Nigel, who has two children, lives in Taunton where he enjoys his main hobbies of football, fishing, and golf.