Increase in nuclear power will harm Ireland

ALTHOUGH the British Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has said the Wylfa nuclear power station, located just 60 miles from Ireland, will not have its operating life extended beyond 2010, Prime Minister Tony Blair’s plan to put nuclear power back on the agenda may give rise to a new generation of stations on the other side of the Irish Sea.

An increase in British reliance on nuclear power will have nothing but harmful effects on Ireland.

Nuclear power is not the way forward and Mr Blair should not have preempted his government’s own energy review on this vital issue.