South Gloucestershire | Archive | 2006 | March | 3
From the archive, first published Friday 3rd Mar 2006.
OLDBURY power station was the scene of a stunt by anti-nuclear campaigners before daylight yesterday.
Greenpeace activists projected the word "Kapow" in large letters onto part of the site in a bid to demonstrate its vulnerability to a terrorist attack.
The action by volunteers from the environmental group comes at a time when the government is conducting an energy review on whether a new generation of nuclear reactors should be built in the UK.
Sarah North, head of Greenpeace's nuclear campaign, said: "Millions of people could die as a result of a terrorist attack on a nuclear plant.
Yet Tony Blair has put the prospect of building these extremely dangerous facilities back on the agenda, seemingly without a thought for the safety of the public.
"Nuclear power is simply the wrong answer to climate change."
She claimed terrorist groups were known to be targeting nuclear plants and site plans had been found in a car linked to the July 2005 London bombings.
Greenpeace recently released a dossier of evidence which it claims highlights the vulnerability of nuclear installations to various kinds of attack including the deliberate crashing of an aircraft full of highly-explosive aviation fuel.
The Oldbury image was projected at 5am yesterday from a position outside the fence surrounding the site.
A spokesman for the Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC) said the action posed no threat to the station
"We are not sure exactly what they were hoping to achieve by this but we are satisfied that there has been no breach of security," he said.
"Over the last 18 months security had been enhanced at power stations throughout the UK including Oldbury. It is kept under constant review."
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