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Moorside, new nuclear plant should not be funded by Government.

Submitted on Wednesday 23rd January 2019

Published on Thursday 31st January 2019

Current status: Closed

Closed: Wednesday 31st July 2019

Signatures: 527

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Moorside, new nuclear plant should not be funded by Government.

Petition Details

Cumbria already has the intolerable burden of Sellafield. A major accident involving the liquid high level waste would have catastrophic consequences. Any dangerous development near to Sellafield would make a major accident more likely. Private developers cannot afford to underwrite this risk.

Additional Information

"Replacing the output of the shelved new nuclear plants at Wylfa, Moorside and Oldbury with renewables would be 13-33% cheaper, including the costs of balancing variable output, according to quickfire analysis from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit.....
Note that reductions in per-capita electricity generation have saved the UK the equivalent of four Hinkley Cs of demand since 2005
https://www.carbonbrief.org/qa-can-the-uk-meet-its-climate-goals-without-the-wylfa-nuclear-plant


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