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Article: Seven of Britain's new nuclear plants will be on Irish Sea coast
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Article date:
- November 10, 2009
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FEARS have been raised about the health and environmental risks
to Ireland after the British Government gave the green light for the
construction of 10 new nuclear power plants -- seven of them along
the Irish Sea.
And after years of campaigning by the Irish Government and
environmental groups to close the plant at Sellafield in England,
British authorities have confirmed they will build a new reactor
there.
The new Sellafield plant is among 10 reactors to be given the go-
ahead, with the first opening by 2018.
Just three of the new reactors will be located on the east coast
of England -- Hartlepool in Co Durham, Sizewell in Suffolk and
Bradwell in Essex.
Fine Gael TD for Louth, Fergus ...