My hon. Friend asks an important question. On the first part, we are convinced that the carbon gains from nuclear power far outweigh the costs that he was talking about. On the second part, waste and clean-up are a big legacy issue in Britain. That is why we passed legislation to place the responsibility for those costs on the private sector.
UK Low Carbon Transition Plan
Proceeding contribution from
Ed Miliband
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 15 July 2009.
It occurred during Ministerial statement on UK Low Carbon Transition Plan.
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