Do you think he'd listen to you or his corporate chums? Sorry, this seems a bit like another rag week stunt. The announcement today was already known and expected, with planning laws and US paymasters in place. Some people are still deluded enough to think this is a democracy. They don't mind and unfortunately, you don't matter. Check out all the greedy scumbags with their green business schemes and all the so-called 'not-for-profit' NGO's keeping the guardian classes in fat wages. Sad ain't it.

1. The world’s endowment of uranium ore is now so depleted that the nuclear industry will never, from its own resources, be able to generate the energy it needs to clear up its own backlog of waste.

And that's just for starters... more here:

 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/12/387359.html

Some good listening on this matter:

IS NUCLEAR POWER COMING BACK?

A four-part mini-series based on a briefing, on November 7 and 8, 2005, by Dr. Helen Caldicott's organization, the Nuclear Policy Research Institute

Anti nuclear campaigner Dr. Helen Caldicott invited scientists, members of the Bush administration, and journalists for a two-day conference to address the following issues: What is the connection between nuclear power and war, what is the safety record of nuclear power plants, and what is their effect on the people living around them? And what lies behind the claim of the Bush administration that nuclear power plants are being brought back to ward off global warming?

In domestic and foreign policy, in legislation and funding priorities, the Bush administration has begun a major shift towards building new nuclear power plants and nuclear fuel reprocessing sites; technologies that were abandoned in the US decades ago. The energy bill, passed in the fall of 2005,, set aside $8.7 billion for the nuclear, oil, and coal industries while offering only $1.3 billion for alternative fuels. Some have asked why the oil industry, with record high profits needs a $1.6 billion subsidy. Not enough critics have investigated the biggest line item of them all: the unprecedented $4.3 billion to the nuclear industry.


A281/Part ONE:
IS NUCLEAR POWER COMING BACK?
Congressman Ed Markey (D. Mass.)
Rep. Ed Markey on the status of waste disposal at Yucca Mountain, on the Bush administration's violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and on massive subsidies to the nuclear industry.

Congressman Ed Markey was first elected to Congress in 1976, and has fought against nuclear proliferation and for environmental protection. Rep. Markey and Dr. Caldicott are friends and have worked together on the Nuclear Freeze and in the aftermath of the 1979 accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Middletown, Pennsylvania.

 http://tucradio.org/0308nuclearone.mp3

A281/Part TWO:
NUCLEAR RADIATION'S IMPACT ON LIFE
Dan Hirsch (Committee to Bridge the Gap), Dr. Helen Caldicott (Nuclear Policy Research Institute), and David Richardson (School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina)
On the efforts of Homeland Security and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to raise allowable exposure levels, and on the biological effects of radiation. We now have ample evidence, gathered in the last 60 years, of how nuclear radiation harms life. All radiation is cumulative; there are no safe levels. Radiation causes cancers in organs, glands, bones and blood.

But this issue is about more than the individual deaths from cancer. Radiation affects by mutation the genetic heritage each of us carries in our DNA. The future of life is present today within the bodies of living people, animals and plants -- the whole seed-bearing biosphere. We are now altering these carefully evolved seeds by randomly damaging them, and passing on that damage to future generations.

Dan Hirsch is president and co-founder of the Committee to Bridge the Gap, a nuclear watchdog group that provides technical and legal assistance to communities near existing or proposed nuclear power projects.

Dr. Helen Caldicott explains in detail how radiation damages life. She is president of the Nuclear Policy Research Institute and the author of numerous books on nuclear and environmental issues. Her book, Nuclear Power is not the Solution to Global Warming will be published in the fall of 2006.

David Richardson is assistant professor of Epidemiology in the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He specializes in long-term effects of radiation exposure.
 http://www.nuclearpolicy.org/
 http://www.committeetobridgethegap.org/

 http://tucradio.org/0315nucleartwo.mp3

A282/Part THREE
ROUTINE RELEASES FROM NUCLEAR REACTORS
Kay Drey (NIRS), and David Lochbaum (Union of Concerned Scientists)
Very few people know that nuclear power plants routinely release highly radioactive substances into the environment. Even accidents at the 103 U.S. plants hardly ever get reported.

Kay Drey is a Board member of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS). Since 1974 she has worked on hazards from so-called routine releases of radioactive gases and wastewater from nuclear power plants. You can find out more about her work at

David Lochbaum began his career as nuclear engineer a few months after the Three Mile Island meltdown. For the next 17 years he worked at nuclear power plants in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Kansas, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, and Connecticut. Now he is a senior scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists where he monitors the performance of all US nuclear power plants.

 http://tucradio.org/0322nuclearthree.mp3

A282/Part FOUR
NUCLEAR POWER FOR A POLICE STATE
Or: A Police State for Nuclear Power?
Dr. Arjun Makhijani and David Freeman
When David Freeman became the head of the Tennessee Valley authority 30 years ago he halted construction of eight nuclear power plants. Today he warns that nuclear power is a failed technology and that it takes a police state to live with it.

Freeman has dealt with nuclear power plants and public utilities all his life. An engineer and lawyer, he was energy adviser to President Jimmy Carter. He held top positions at the New York Power Authority, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), Lower Colorado River Authority and the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD). During his tenure in Sacramento Freeman initiated the nation's most intensive utility conservation program, including electric vehicle, wind and solar programs.

Dr. Arjun Makhijani holds a degree in engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked on plasma physics and controlled nuclear fusion. He is the principal editor and co-author of Nuclear Wastelands, the first global assessment of the health and environmental effects of nuclear weapons production. Dr. Makhijani addresses the issue of nuclear proliferation and why nuclear technologies have spread in spite of the efforts, begun in the early 1960s, to dismantle existing weapons stockpiles.

 http://tucradio.org/0329nuclearfour.mp3

 http://tucradio.org/new.html

Re Gordon wont listen.

Of course, he wont.
But there are other courses of action than are usually appreciated.
There is the super-vote, that is the single transferable vote, an
election that actually elects. This system would give public opinion
much greater leverage over politicians and their decisions.

For instance, STV orders choice of candidates on the issues most
important to you, with a good choice of candidates proportionly elected
in multi-member constituencies, allowing preference of the best
environmentalists in all parties or as Independents.
That way you can by-pass the First Past The Post choice between two
party manifestos both for more nuclear power.

Dare I say it, you have to educate yourselves and the public on the
truth that in STV there is such a thing as democratic voting system.
Scottish local elections got STV in 2007. Both Sunderland and Richard
reports were rebuffed in seeking STV for Wales.

Britain has half a dozen undemocratic voting systems where one
democratic method would do.

My website has pages against nuclear power, as well as on
constitutional reforms.