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No turning the clock back to a nuclear age
With Jeremy Hunt’s latest Budget dusting off ideas about using nuclear energy to meet our environmental commitments, RICHARD LEONARD MSP warns that atomic ‘solutions’ aren’t all they’re cracked up to be
The first new nuclear reactor for a British power station for over 30 years arrives by barge at Combwich Wharf on the River Parrett, Somerset
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Statement of the World Peace Council
IN POLITICS we invariably have to fight the same old battles over and over again.
So, to hear the Chancellor in his spring Budget declaring that “increasing nuclear capacity is vital to meet our net zero obligations” should not come as a complete surprise.
After all, this is word for word what the resurgent nuclear lobby has been spinning for some time.
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