A legal challenge against plans to dump mud dredged from the Bristol Channel off Hinkley Point C into the Severn Estuary has been dismissed.
Last year the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) granted energy giant EDF a licence to deposit hundreds of thousands of tonnes of sediment at a site off Portishead, as part of works to install water cooling tunnels below the sea bed for the nuclear power plant in Bridgwater, Somerset.
It followed analysis from government marine scientific agency CEFAS, which found the operation posed no risk to humans or the environment, and low levels of radioactivity in the mud were “predominantly naturally occurring".
