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Decommissioning Sellafield nuclear power station in Cumbria will cost taxpayers at least £70 billion as costs hit “astonishing levels,” senior MPs said yesterday.
And the government has rubber-stamped a five-year extension of the contract awarded to a consortium of private companies for the work — despite spiralling costs and missed deadlines.
The performance of Nuclear Management Partners (NMP) and the decision to extend its contract have been slammed by the Commons public accounts committee.
We need a government that invests in saving lives not destroying them, argues SOPHIE BOLT
Government's plan means ‘extra cash for war and overseas interventions, but less for schools and hospitals,’ Unison general secretary Andrea Egan warns
Expanding Britain’s nuclear capability increases the risk of nuclear confrontation. It does not keep us safe – it makes us a target, argues CAROL TURNER
MARK JONES responds to issues raised in the recent report from Richard Hebbert on the Communist Party’s Congress debate on nuclear power