Oppose French nuclear plans, States are urged

Monday 5th January 2004, 12:00AM GMT.

THE States should fight against a proposed extension at Flamanville nuclear power plant, say the environmental pressure group Concern.

Electricité de France plan to install new reactors at the plant, and Concern have urged the States to contest the plans and, through the UK, seek reassurances on safety at the plant.Concern say that the plans will add to the risks facing Jersey from the Flamanville reactors and the reprocessing plant at Cap de la Hague – one of only two such facilities in Europe – which have been exacerbated by global terrorism.Concern say: ‘Such risks are compounded by the near impossibility of swiftly evacuating the population of the Channel Islands in the event of a nuclear disaster on the scale of Chernobyl.

The question of ultimate responsibility for the welfare of the population in any such event has never been determined.

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