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Floods, erosion or earthquake risk will not be a bar to nuclear power sites – Telegraph

Floods, erosion or earthquake risk will not be a bar to nuclear power sites Telegraph.co.uk By Rosa Prince, Political Correspondent
 28 Jan 2009 Risk of flood, coastal erosion, environmental damage or even earthquake will not be an automatic bar to the siting of a new nuclear power station, the Government has said…………………………

Last week, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority announced it would put forward four potential sites, at Sellafield in Cumbria, Wylfa in Anglesey, Oldbury in Gloucestershire and Bradwell in Essex.

Revised criteria unveiled at the launch of the two month process to award the contracts saw a lifting of an outright ban on siting new nuclear power stations in areas susceptible to earthquakes…………………………….

Robin Webster, of Friends of the Earth, said: “We urgently need to end our addiction to fossil fuels, but trying to breathe new life into the failed nuclear experiment is not the answer.

“Nuclear power is extremely expensive and leaves a deadly legacy of radioactive waste that remains highly dangerous for tens of thousands of years – and building new reactors would divert precious resources from developing safe, clean renewable power.”

Floods, erosion or earthquake risk will not be a bar to nuclear power sites – Telegraph

January 28, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized