SAFETY AND SECURITY

Nuclear power does not only pose a threat to our health and to the health of our environment.

The proliferation of nuclear weapons is inextricably linked to nuclear power by a shared need for enriched uranium, and through the generation of plutonium as a by-product of spent nuclear fuel. The two industries have been linked since the very beginning and a nuclear weapons free world requires a non-nuclear energy policy. (CND)

In addition to this, nuclear power stations provide targets for terrorists.

"Nuclear power stations are a potential target for terrorists, while nuclear materials could fall into terrorist hands threatening the detonation by terrorist organisations of 'dirty bombs' or worse still crude nuclear weapons." - Friends of the Earth, November 2005.