SO with the Government giving carte blanche to power generators to build as many nuclear reactors as they like, is one destined for Sussex?

EDF the French nuclear conglomerate, and one of those given the go-ahead, has it's local HQ in Worthing and must surely be eying up sites already like Shoreham harbour that already have a power station, ready built infrastructure such as the high voltage transmission lines, cooling water and available land. Clearly until sites are announced in the future nuclear blight will descend on many parts of the country.

Commenting, West Sussex Green Party's John Tyler said: "The Labour government has made the biggest mistake, maybe even bigger than the Iraq War. What on earth were they thinking about. They've told us nuclear is the answer to global warming yet their own advisers told them the carbon emission responsible for it will only be cut by 4 per cent even if 10 new reactors were built; and then only after 2025 .

Then of course there's the building costs. The government tell us company's selected to build and run them will not get any public money, but what will happen if the building costs escalate as is happening with the Finish reactor. You can bet the taxpayer will have to pick up the bill to prevent building coming to a halt. No other country has managed to run a nuclear industry without vast sums of taxpayers money.

Oh, then there's the waste produced by the reactors - radio-active for 10's of thousands of years - where that going to go? The government don't know, they're still working on that one. All the waste accumulated so far is presently stored in 37 locations, some secret and maybe near you?

Nuclear power is not the answer to energy security either, if anything it's a security risk and inviting terrorist attacks. Also it's not the answer to combat global heating, that's man's obscene waste of the energy we produce at the moment. As I write this at 8pm on Sunday, out of the window I can see 3 large office blocks all lit up like Christmas trees, yet being a Sunday nobody is working in them. Without doubt that scene is replicated in every city and town all over the country. That wasted energy is likely using up the output of an existing power station and adding to the stock-pile of radio-active waste.

Clearly the Labour government has got it wrong big time and even faces a legal challenge for the many biases suggested in its recent nuclear consultation. Now is the time for everyone of us to consider who we buy electricity from. If we want to avoid the potentially catastrophic consequences of nuclear power we have to boycott those providers of nuclear power such as EDF by switching to a provider of safe power like www.ecotricity.co.uk/ and what's more, overall it's cheaper."

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