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Cuffe
visits nuclear power station in Wales and receives guarantees on closure in 2010
Green
Party Dún Laoghaire TD Ciarán Cuffe and Green Party Leader Trevor Sargent TD
travelled yesterday to Wylfa nuclear power station on the Welsh coast near
Holyhead. They met with plan management and expressed their continued opposition
to nuclear power. They stressed the concern of the Irish people to any plans for
a new generation of nuclear power stations in Britain.
“We
met with the Site Manager Andrew Corrigan from the British Nuclear Group, and
received reassurances that the plant will close in 2010. Wylfa is the largest
Nuclear Power Station in the UK.
“We
also met with representatives of the Welsh Anti Nuclear Alliance. We agreed the
following:
-to
jointly to oppose any proposal for new nuclear stations under the incoming UK
Government,
-to
continue to campaign for the early closure and decommissioning of the Wylfa
Station, and
-to
call on the Irish Government to step up its efforts to oppose any move by the UK
Government to build new nuclear installations.”
Wylfa
is located near Holyhead on Anglesey Island and is only sixty miles from Dún
Laoghaire.
Deputy
Cuffe added, “We heard that the legacy of Chernobyl still haunts this area as
some Welsh lamb is still contaminated from the 1986 nuclear accident.”
Deputy
Sargent concluded that, “The Green Party visit occurred in the week that the
first phase of a 520 megawatt wind farm opens on the Arklow Bank. The first
phase of that farm is 8 turbines with a capacity of 25 megawatts. Wylfa’s
capacity is 980 megawatts. This shows that wind is now emerging a serious player
in the energy industry. The answer to the nuclear industry is blowing in the
wind.”
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