Did you know ...?

• EdF plans to build two giant reactors at Hinkley.

• The European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) has been plagued with construction problems and overspend in Finland and France. Large Associates has concerns over its safety.

• Its highly radioactive 'superheated' fuel rods will not be sent away for reprocessing but left on site indefinitely, increasing its exposure to terrorist risks.

• Studies we have commissioned have shown increased cancer and infant mortality downwind from Hinkley Point. [Click here for more info]

• The UK taxpayer is currently expected to pay £83 billion and rising to decommission existing nuclear sites.

• The Government is pushing for burial of the most dangerous and long-lived nuclear waste, despite its advisors' recommendations for intensive research.

• The cost of n-waste management from a new generation of reactors will be capped by Government. Taxpayers will pay the rest. A second national Deep Repository may be needed for this waste.

• The climate-change aspects of nuclear power are exaggerated: Replacing all old reactors could save only 5% of UK carbon emissions. This could be saved more cheaply by other means.

• 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.

• The UK does not need nuclear: the Pöyry report says we can fill the energy gap with current government renewable energy targets.

• British Energy is building one huge wind farm in Scotland. Hypocritically they 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".