Around 150 Greenpeace volunteers have entered the Sizewell B nuclear power station in Suffolk, England, saying that they plan to stay until the government agrees to end its nuclear power programme. The activists have positioned themselves on rooftops around the site but have not entered any buildings and do not plan to interfere with the operation of the plant. The occupation is part of Greenpeace's ongoing campaign to persuade the British government to abandon its nuclear programme and replace it with safe, economical, renewable energy sources such as offshore wind farms. Greenpeace say that that forty wind farms off the coast of East Anglia could produce as much electricity as all the nuclear power stations in Britain, while the government continues to use substantial sums of taxpayers' money to support the near-bankrupt nuclear power industry. Greenpeace are currently taking legal action to block the government's £650 million aid package to British Energy, the private nuclear generating company that runs Sizewell B, claiming it breaks European Union rules. Greenpeace news release BBC News: Activists occupy nuclear plant