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'Green' New Year Resolutions

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Hinkley Point and nuclear waste

January 2006:
Five-fold increase in n-waste from new power stations
Stop Hinkley (Shut Oldbury) campaigners have reacted angrily to a report that a new generation of nuclear power stations, potentially including Hinkley C (Oldbury B), would produce much more dangerous nuclear waste than that declared by BNFL...

A new generation of nuclear power stations would increase five-fold the amount of a lethal and long-lasting form of highly radioactive nuclear waste stored in the UK, official figures show...

Nuclear waste stores may be built in the West to handle soaring stockpiles of high-level waste from new atomic power stations, campaigners claim. If the go-ahead is given for new reactors in the UK, radioactive by-products are likely to be kept near where they are produced, according to anti-nuclear group Stop Hinkley...

ANTI-NUCLEAR campaigners have urged the government to rethink plans for a new Hinkley Point C after it was revealed the cost of cleaning up the old Hinkley Point A could total more than £1.1billion...

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