“Just weeks after the dust has settled on a budget that did nothing to address the real problems that we face, the government has made yet more public money available for Britain’s nuclear weapons industry and is unusually linking nuclear power and nuclear weapons in the same breath. It’s good that the prime minister is owning up to the linkage, but the suggestion that they are needed for both national and energy security is a complete fallacy.
“As the long-delayed Hinkley Point C shows, nuclear power is neither a timely nor cost effective way of generating electricity. It is extremely cynical of the government to use a genuine issue like energy security to greenwash nuclear power and nuclear weapons. The additional funding pumped into these will inevitably find its way into the pockets of investors through government contracts financed by the public.”
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Bromley Peace campaigners gathered in Bromley Market Square on Friday 26/4/19 to mark the 33rd anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The disaster took place in 1986 and was covered up by the then Soviet authorities. The explosion at the nuclear power plant released a radioactive cloud that drifted across Europe reaching the UK a week later. 70% of the radioactive materials fell over farmlands, forests, towns and villages in Belarus. The children of Belarus are since then and to date continuing to pay the heavy price of this disaster with their health and well being. There is a huge increase in childhood cancers, thyroid disorders and birth defects even today. Innocent people paid the heavy price of Chernobyl 1986 and Fukushima 2011 disasters let alone livestock, pets and the enduring damage to the environment that will last thousands of years. Ann Garrett the Secretary of Bromley Borough CND said “ These are alarm bells we should not ignore when our government is
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