Did you know ...?

• Hinkley is top of a Government list of sites to build one of up to 10 UK new reactors.

• Reactor designs submitted for approval have less safety features than the last reactor built in the UK, are unproven prototypes and are not terrorist-proof.

• Highly radioactive 'hot' fuel rods will not be sent away for reprocessing but left on site indefinitely thus increasing exposure of local populations to terrorist risks.

• The Government is pushing for burial of the most dangerous and long-lived nuclear waste, despite its advisors' recommendations for intensive research. Hinkley is a possible site for this Deep Disposal.

• Studies we have commissioned have shown increased cancer levels downwind from Hinkley Point.

• The UK taxpayer is currently expected to pay £75 billion and rising to decommission existing nuclear sites.

• The taxpayer will also probably pay for all the waste management from a new generation of reactors. A second national Deep Repository may be needed for this waste.

• The climate-change aspects of nuclear power are exaggerated: It could save only 5% of UK carbon emissions, which could be saved more cheaply by other means.

• The UK does not need nuclear - we have a vast resource of wind and tidal potential and the technology to greatly reduce our electricity consumption.

• The taxpayer would pay most of the costs resulting from a major nuclear accident.

• Existing UK nuclear sites are mostly around the coastline which are jeopardised by rising sea levels.

• British Energy is building one huge wind farm in Scotland. Hypocritically they have opposed a wind-farm application at Hinkley Point on safety grounds.

• Nuclear power is not cheap, not safe and not necessary. As Stop Hinkley patron Michael Meacher MP said "the UK needs new nuclear like a hole in the head".