EURO-MPs DEMAND END TO NUCLEAR POWER
23 June 2011 08:56GREEN Party Euro-MPs Jean Lambert (London) and Caroline Lucas (South-East
England) have called on the Government to mark the 18th anniversary of the
Chernobyl disaster with a commitment to build no nuclear power stations in
the UK - ever.
Today marks the 18th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear accident -
which drove hundreds of thousands from their homes and land and contaminated
huge tracts of land in the then Soviet Union and the rest of Europe with
radioactive material. As recently as last year it was reported that 400
farms in the UK were still contaminated and subject to regular testing. The
UN declared the accident a 'global ecological disaster'.
Mrs Lambert, London's Green Party MEP said: "The terrible effects of the
world's worst nuclear accident are still being felt across Europe, a full
generation later. Children born on the day of the disaster have turned 18
this week.
