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| 11 nuclear reactor sites announced |
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The two sites, located at Braystones and Kirsanton in Cumbria, are near the existing Sellafield nuclear power station, which has also been nominated as a potential site for one of the Government’s planned new generation of nuclear power stations.
The other sites announced today have all previously been home to nuclear reactors. They are: Dungeness in Kent; Sizewell in Suffolk; Hartlepool in Cleveland; Heysham in Lancashire; Wylfa Peninsula in Anglesey; Oldbury in Gloucestershire; Hinkley Point in Somerset; and Bradwell in Essex.
Energy and climate change secretary Ed Miliband said the sites would now be subject to a month-long public consultation. He said: Nuclear power is part of the low-carbon future for Britain. It also has the potential to offer thousands of jobs to the UK and multi-million pound opportunities to British businesses.
The sites have been nominated by the energy companies EDF, E.on, RWE and the quango the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, which owns some nuclear sites. No sites in Scotland or Northern Ireland, where planning is a devolved issue, have been included. The Scottish Government has said it is opposed to any nuclear new-build north of the border.
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