Nuclear power plants could be built in protected areas

A new generation of nuclear power stations could be built in flood-risk or "environmentally protected" areas, under proposed rules set out by the Government today.

Green safeguards are listed among "discretionary" criteria ministers intend to use to decide where to put the controversial reactors - not those that would instantly rule out a site. Prime Minister Gordon Brown is believed to want up to eight new reactors as part of a global "renaissance of nuclear power" to help end reliance on fossil fuels.

Under the Strategic Siting Assessment system proposed by Business Secretary John Hutton, nominations for "credible" sites backed by nuclear firms will be invited early next year. They would then be judged against a list of criteria before being put forward for planning permission - possibly using a controversial planned fast-track approach for major projects.

Sites at risk of earthquake or near heavily populated areas would be instantly ruled out according to the planned rules - due to be finalised in the coming months after consultation. But concerns of flood risk, coastal conditions and "environmentally-protected" status would be considered "less absolute" and could be overridden.

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/nuclear-power-plants-could-be-built-in-protected-areas-874378.html

Don't worry - it'll be safe there.

Why do you make a joke out of stuff that has already killed countless thousands of Americans and is still killing us.

the Nevada bomb tests from cancers and all of the Navajos who were uranium miners are still dying from unsafe working conditions and the trash that was left when the mine owners closed the mines and left the junk.

radioactive materials. So far, they have not learned!!