UK: Labour goes nuclear

Labour goes nuclear but row erupts over who will foot bill
Energy firms lured by incentives on carbon emissions and radioactive waste

The government gave the go-ahead for a new generation of nuclear power stations yesterday but stepped into a fierce row over financial sweeteners to private sector operators. John Hutton, the business secretary, insisted there were no subsidies but the small print of the white paper showed concessions had been given away.

Private companies who wanted to build new stations would have to pay for the entire cost while "meeting the full costs of decommissioning and their full share of waste management costs", argued Hutton who said atomic power was needed to reduce carbon and the growing reliance on energy imports.

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Very disappointing - when I saw this thread I thought that the U.K. Labour Party (and Gordon Brown in particular) had been the subject of a nuclear attack!!

Colin