Disregarding advice from its' own Sustainable Development Commission the government is quietly pushing through plans for Nuclear Expansion.

8 new nuclear plants are being planned for the UK.

The first is to be built by EDF (Electricite de France) is at Hinkley Point. (36 miles from Bristol). Another is planned for Oldbury (Shepperdine) 19 miles north of Bristol.

Dr Helen Caldicott , born in Australia 1938, is an articulate and passionate advocate of citizen action to remedy the nuclear and environmental crises, Dr Helen Caldicott, has devoted the last 38 years to an international campaign to educate the public about the medical hazards of the nuclear age and the necessary changes in human behaviour to stop environmental destruction.

She is coming to Bristol to support our campaign against the new nuclear builds.

Radiation is particularly hazardous to women and children. Children, because of their rapid cell growth and less developed immune systems and women as it affects the whole reproductive cycle, with high risk to breast and uterine tissue.

The government is “greenwashing” nuclear power by saying it is carbon free, while operational. However nuclear power plants from mining to decommissioning have a massive contribution to global warming.

THERE IS NO SAFE SOLUTION FOR DISPOSAL OF NUCLEAR WASTE!

Increasingly nuclear waste is being used in conventional weapons, resulting in birth deformities, cancers and other radiation related illnesses, similar to the aftermath of the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Nuclear expansion increases the risk of nuclear proliferation, nuclear accidents, endangering our genetic inheritance and leaving us vulnerable to military or other terrorist attack.

NOW IS THE TIME TO MOBILISE AGAINST THIS NUCLEAR MADNESS!!!

“No generation should impose on future generations, problems to which it has no solution” Jonathon Porrit