The attack on ONE OF the key issues behind the miners strike was the government's running down of the mining industry. in favour of unsafe nuclear power. Nuclear power now supplies 18 per cent of British electricity. Each nuclear power plant directly miners and a further 3,500 other jobs. The British nuclear power programme weakening the National Union of Mineworkers — as was admitted in Cabinet minutes:
not just the NUM but everyone of us who are paying a catastrophic price in the threat posed by Britain's nuclear power programme. On last Saturday's Any Questions radio programme Arthur Scargill, president of the NUM, was asked his view on nuclear power. The following was his reply. It shows the enormous possibilities for the entire labour movement to campaign with the NUM against nuclear power, and for an energy policy based on coal and 'alternative The Chernobyl disaster renfinds us all that it is reasons. Piost of all being vested interest. But chairperson of the British anu-nucical Canibal power in Britain, whether Let's get a couple of things very clear. First we ada to unal tne accomminis sioning costs as projected bv the wrench. vou re talk fred station e, the coch blems created by nuclear zuaranice lial workes become get cancer and leukemia as not be another nuclear acWe've still got people in this country dying a And fourthly can they HuC cal seas, bearing in mind that sea is now one of those questions 'no une cacaralel lo stop te nucical power question that it should be governichl when we have wind. wave WC ought to 110W alt
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