Online consultation about "The Future of Nuclear Power&

gerrywolff · Online consultation about "The Future of Nuclear Power&

The Government's online consultation on "The Future of Nuclear Power" runs until the 10th of October. It consists of text setting out the Government's view (that companies should be allowed to build new nuclear power stations) plus 18 questions with spaces for answers. The welcome page for the consultation is at http://nuclearpower2007.direct.gov.uk/main.asp . When you go to this page, you will be asked to log in. To do this, you will need first to register for the consultation by clicking on the 'Registration' button near the top of the page. Then they will send you a username and password by email.

The case that the Government makes is not at all convincing. It contains significant errors of fact and spurious lines of reasoning. I believe it is important that as many people as possible respond to the consultation pointing out the many shortcomings in the Government's position. Money spent on nuclear power -- a dirty, dangerous and expensive method of generating electricity -- is money that would be much better spent on the many good alternatives that are available.

I have prepared a set of answers which can be seen at http://www.mng.org.uk/gh/resources/nconsult2007.html . Please feel free to use any or all of these answers in your response to the consultation (copying and pasting into the online form) and edit them as you wish. Improved versions of the answers may be posted on this and other forums. In that connection, there is only space for 3000 characters for each answer so it is not possible to expand them as much as one might wish. I do hope many people will respond to the consultation, trying to head off what would be a really bad move by the UK Government.

Regards,

Gerry Wolff

Gerry AT mng DOT org DOT uk, +44 (0)1248 712962, www.trec-uk.org.uk,
www.mng.org.uk/green_house/ .