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10 New Nuclear Power Stations for UK

Posted on 11/9/2009 at 4:52:16 PM

The government has given the locations where 10 new nuclear powerstations are to built. These power stations are required to prevent power shortages in the future as fossil fuel power stations are used less frequently. The majority of the new sites are already home to nuclear power stations. The ten sites seen as suitable for future power stations are:

Sellafield in Cumbria, Hartlepool, Heysham in Lancashire, Hinkley Point in Somerset, Oldbury in Gloucestershire, Sizewell in Suffolk and Wylfa in North Wales. Only Dungoness in Kent was seen as unsuitable on environmental grounds.The new sites are Braystones, Kirksanton are new sites while Bradwell in Essex  was a former  site in the past.

The Infrastructure Planning Commission, will make the decissions after national and local consultation. However it is expected that the propossals will be fast tracked so that some stations will be producing power by as early as 2018.