The Government's own Sustainable Development Commission, reporting in March 2006, concluded that a new nuclear programme was not the answer to the twin challenges of climate change and security of supply. They strongly recommended that a new nuclear programme should not go ahead.
CLEAN COAL TECHNOLOGY can give us security of energy supply, based on Wales' and the U.K.'s own coal wealth – and clean, green, sustainable electricity generation.
Two decades after the Chernobyl disaster, there are still Emergency Orders on 355 farms in North Wales. The cost of cleaning up the sites of our own nuclear power stations is estimated at £70bn.
Government must make a clear decision to turn away from nuclear energy – with all the serious concerns about the storage of radioactive nuclear waste, the risk of nuclear accidents and the potential for nuclear facilities to be targeted for terrorist attack. There is an alternative.