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Nuke power debate hots up



  • On 29 November, Tony Blair's planned pro-nuclear speech at the CBI con-ference was delayed for 45 minutes after being disrupted by Greenpeace activists. Two Greenpeace climbers scaled the ceiling beams above thespeakers' podium, held banners saying "Nuclear - wrong answer" and then released "radioactive" confetti. A Scotland Yard spokesman later confirmedthat two men had been arrested. Blair's speech described his new energy plan, with a new energy policy expected in 2006, which "will include specifi-cally the issue of whether we facilitate the development of a new generation of nuclear power stations". Stephen Tindale, Director of GreenpeaceUK, said, "Today Blair is trying to launch a new nuclear age and we are here to stop him. Nuclear power is not the answer to climate change - it's costly, dangerous and a terrorist target. Today's new review is simply a smokescreen for pushing his newfound enthusiasm for nuclear power."
    On 22 November, CND released a new report titled Nuclear power: why we say no to a new generation, decrying attempts to label nuclear power as "green power". See     http://www.cnduk.org.
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