"(a) This Council expresses its opposition to the proposal in the recent Jackson Consulting Report recently submitted to the Labour Government on the location of future nuclear power stations that the Harwell Nuclear Research Centre and the Didcot Power Station in Oxfordshire be considered as locations for future nuclear power stations

The Council considers the sites in question are close to large urban conurbations and, given the history of nuclear power generation, pose an unacceptable health and safety risk to local residents.

(b) Whilst the issue of safe storage of nuclear waste remains unresolved this Council is unconvinced that nuclear power is safe and believes that nuclear power poses a danger to all humanity.

(c) Oxford City Council calls on the Labour Government not to embark on the policy of building a new series of nuclear power stations and to invest the money in renewable energy sources such as wind, hydro and solar generation systems.

(d) It is this Council’s belief that money given to local Government to stimulate energy conservation and renewable energy will be a better investment of public funds than burdening future generations with the costs of attempting to store nuclear waste, already estimated at over £70 billon, from existing nuclear power stations.

The resolutions to be forwarded to the relevant Secretary of State and the Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown MP."