Nuclear bailout won't work
stuart | 05.11.2002 18:42
As pro-nuclear energy minister Brian Wilson mulls whether or not to extend the already illegal loan to British Energy after 29 November, he is faced with a lose-lose decision. Whatever he decides, taxpayers' money will be flushed down what Friends of the Earth ( http://www.foe.org.uk) calls the "radioactive toilet".
When the cleanup costs of military nuclear sites, BNFL's Sellafield, and all the UK's nuclear reactors are added together, the cost is more than a thousand pounds per taxpayer.
Many of Britain's nuclear reactors are amongst the most dangerous and uneconomic in Western Europe. And as for Sellafield, one issue that unites all parties in Northern Ireland, loyalist and republican, is that Sellafield should close. ( http://www.nirs.org/mononline/FULLSTEAMAHEAD.htm)
stuart