Thank you to the i-Paper, (21 April 2025) for drawing attention to expert opinion warning about some of the dangers of the government’s nuclear power programme.
Scandalous that Keir Starmer has boasted of “ripping up the rule book” governing the nuclear industry in order to be able to build nuclear reactors anywhere in Britain. This is irresponsible, highly dangerous and undemocratic. It is truly scandalous. He needs to be stopped.
i-paper warns of the dangers of mini nuclear power stations (21 4 2025)
Clearly in a war situations they would be a prime target and full of highly toxic radio-active materials. Also a target for terrorists. Politicians should not be allowed to go for such a dangerous and needless power supply option.
The full story can be read on the i-paper’s online edition.
Nuclear energy is NOT clean
Clean at the point of use but this is only a small part of the story. The huge environmental costs are seldom mentioned. The words “clean energy” are typically associated with nuclear power generation. This is a gross misrepresentation of the facts.
Scandalous disregard for the known environmental risks
The irresponsibility of this presentation of “facts” to the public is almost unbelievable. It is as if government ministers have never read or simply cannot understand the plain English of the shocking reports of their own government.
The most hazardous, anti-environmental danger known to life
The generation of nuclear power creates hazardous, radio-active waste – the most hazardous material known to all living creatures. It needs to be stored in enormous concrete storage facilities for hundreds of years to come. The cost of “safeguarding and processing” this waste is already astronomic. Not only that, it presents a prime target if ever a war breaks out between the UK and another country.
Britain has the largest amount of nuclear waste in the world. To approach something like safety with this material it needs to be buried very deep underground in hard rock where it must be locked away for thousands of years. So far only two countries have begun to build such facilities – Finland and Sweden.
Early start – Plans are at an advanced stage
Four of these reactors are planned to be in operation in the Teeside Industrial Park about three miles outside Middlesbrough by the early 2030s, built by the American company, Westinghouse.
