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The Great Nuclear Power Debate - Mon 11 Jan, 7.30pm, London

BWTUC | 08.01.2010 13:41 | COP15 Climate Summit 2009 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Energy Crisis

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The government are claiming that building nuclear power plants across the UK will help deal with the problems of climate change and unemployment.

But does nuclear power hold the answer to these problems or does it simply detract from developing other solutions for climate change?

The government are claiming that building nuclear power plants across the UK will help deal with the problems of climate change and unemployment.

But does nuclear power hold the answer to these problems or does it simply detract from developing other solutions for climate change?

The GMB convenor for Sellafield nuclear power plant, Peter ;Kane, will ;be joined by Tristan Denton from the Nuclear Industry Association to argue the case for nuclear power.

Chris Baugh, assistant general secretary for the PCS will be joined by Ben Ayliffe, senior energy and climate campaigner for Greenpeace to argue against the use of nuclear power.

The Vestas dispute solidified the issue of climate change as a trade union issue, but how do we now move forward when faced with contentious issues, such as those surrounding clean coal or nuclear power.

Organised by Battersea and Wandsworth TUC
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Nuclear Power: A Fossil Fuel Energy Sink

08.01.2010 16:47

Nuclear Power makes no sense even from a climate change / peak oil perspective -- it uses *more* fossil fuel then the electricity it provides, see:

The Death Knell for Nuclear Power
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/12/387359.html

Chris


For more on why nuclear power is NOT the way to go...

08.01.2010 19:08

...follow Nuclear People Power on Twitter:  http://twitter.com/NukePeople Power

There is also a blog:  http://stopnuclearpower.blogspot.com, with loads of links to local anti-nuclear campaigns in the UK.

Greenpeace's Nuclear Reaction is also very good:
Twitter:  http://twitter.com/nukereaction
Blog:  http://weblog.greenpeace.org/nuclear-reaction



dv
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Correction to Twitter link

08.01.2010 20:32

It should be  http://twitter.com/nukepeoplepower

(Username @nukepeoplepower)

dv
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