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 Monday October 25, 2010 12:17 by Sailor Sam - Stop Nuclear Power Network
 Stop Hinkley C. Boycott EDF. After the National Stop Nuclear Power Network Gathering, which was held in Bristol this weekend, participants headed for Harbourside and took their message to the water. The Gathering shared information on government and corporate plans for new nuclear power stations across the country and discussed present and future resistance to these plans. It was a place for many different groups and individuals with an interest in resisting nuclear power to come together and network. Hopefully, there'll be a fuller report from the meeting soon. |
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Plymouth has it's own anti-nuclear action on the 1st of November, and would welcome particiaption from the good people of Bristol.
http://www.tridentploughshares.org/article1608
We must stop this nuclear expansion
Time to organise we can't allow another nuclear power station to be built
Whose future? Our future!
http://stopnuclearpower.blogspot.com/
Why must we stop this nuclear expansion?? The future of clean, sustainable abundent energy is in the nuclear sector. Focus on getting it right, not on futile gestures around stopping it happening!
Here are some of the reasons why:
One: No one has ever come up with a safe way to deal with nuclear waste. To push through new power stations in these circumstances is folly. The government's half-baked plans to find places to bury the waste (out of sight, out of mind?) just won't work.
Two: Nuclear power plants pose very high health risks to local communities. For example, a study of communities living close to the now closed Trawsfynydd nuclear power plant found that women in the area had over 15 times the normal risk of getting breast cancer [2006], while the German KiKK study [2007] found that leukaemia risk for children increased the closer they live to a nuclear power plant. The risk to children living within 5km of a plant would appear to be more than double.
Three: Uranium mining, upon which nuclear power plants depend, is both dirty and dangerous, damaging the health of workers as well as contaminating local communities, their land and water courses. Just because it's not happening here in Britain shouldn't mean we don't concern ourselves with its effects.
Four: Uranium is a finite resource, and extracting Uranium from low quality ore will become increasingly carbon intensive as well as producing ever greater quantities of contaminated waste from the mining process.
Five: The taxpayer has always ended up footing the bill for nuclear power's mistakes. Whatever the government says about no subsidies, new nuclear build will be hugely expensive and it's the people who will end up paying.
Six: Nuclear power stations are potential targets for attack.
Seven: Nuclear power was only developed in the first place as an adjunct to our nuclear weapons programme. We've been signed up to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty for 40 years now. The sooner we decommission all our nuclear power stations and stop the plans for new ones, the better.