A Glowing Future for Britain? - Say no to 10 nuclear power stations, coming soon to your area

Because of lobbying and subversive activities of interest groups (large companies), most discussions for or against implementing nuclear power in the UK seem to cloud some indisputable facts. The UK government is currently investigating where to put the proposed ten new nuclear power plants: You might like to let your MP that you don't want it in your area! You can find your MP by entering you post code at http://www.parliament.uk/mpslordsandoffices/

Nuclear power production is NOT CLEAN - it produces waste that is impossible to get rid of with current technology. Don't lets forget what happens when nuclear power stations go wrong (see http://www.davistownmuseum.org/cbm/Rad16.html)

Though the quantity of waste is tiny in volume, we will be left with one big mess that it is IMPOSSIBLE to clean up! Hiding it in a hole in the ground (the currently proposed method of dealing with the highly radioactive waste) is simply delaying the inevitable consequences of major poisoning of the population - it might be our generation that gets it, or it might be our children's children's children's etc. In 1000 years it will be impossible for people to know where conventional power station was sited and it won't much matter: Conversely, if future peoples living in the UK only unearth the sites of nuclear waste we have already created, they will have major problems!

Don't forget that the Irish Sea has already been described as the most radioactively contaminated sea in the world with some "eight million litres of nuclear waste discharged into it each day from selafiled reprocessing plants, contaminating seawater, sediments and marine life. (see http://www1.american.edu/TED/SELLA.HTM and http://www.ecology.at/nni/index.php?p=site&s=243)

Nuclear power production is NOT RENEWABLE - Nuclear power production relies on the sourcing of Uranium, and once the Uranium is gone we will have to find a source of REAL RENEWABLE energy anyway - why delay the inevitable?

Nuclear power production is NOT CHEAP - the UK people will likely pick up the hefty "cleanup bills" associated with "hiding" the highly radioactive waste (out of site out of mind), in the form of very much higher energy bills. Talks have already taken place to incentivise prospective nuclear power companies by offering to dispose of the waste for them (see http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jan/07/nuclearpower.alternativeenergy)


For the reasons above Nuclear power production is clearly NOT ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY ! Surely it is more environmentally friendly to pollute in the short term (with coal for example) and seriously work towards a long term goal of real renewable energy. Is it not better to have a wind farm that is a "blot on the landscape" simply because when the turbine is removed theres no real harm done?

How have we ended up with nuclear power on the horizon again when we are presided over by the Labour government that won an election victory promising to rid Britain of nuclear waste?
Because they sold off four of our six large utility companies (see http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1060811/The-great-nuclear-sell-Our-atomic-power-giant-falls-foreign-hands--youll-pay-price.html) perhaps to gain short term revenue to make their books look good.