Dungeness dropped from list of new nuclear reactors
  9 November, 2009
Dungeness in Kent has been dropped from a Government list of potential locations for new nuclear power stations.
The location, which was one of eleven sites nominated by industry in March, was not listed in the Department of Energy and Climate Change's draft National Policy Statements consultation, which opened today.
Concerns about how to mitigate potential environmental impacts at the site, coastal erosion and associated flood risk were among the reasons.
The draft Nuclear National Policy Statement named ten locations that had been assessed as potentially suitable for new nuclear deployment by the end of 2025.
These are: Bradwell, Braystones, Hartlepool, Heysham, Hinkley Point, Kirkstanton, Oldbury, Sellafield, Sizewell and Wylfa.

see Government's Site Summary for Dungeness

DUNGENESS NUCLEAR POWER STATIONS

The main source of radioactive pollution to the air and the sea in the South East of England
is from these two Nuclear Power Stations on the Kent coast at New Romney.

However, they are not the only source of radiation in our part of the country.
The French reprocessing plant at Cap de L'Hague, Cherbourg, discharges
a radioactive plume that soon covers much of the South East.

There are six nuclear reactors just across the channel from Dover at Gravelines,
near Dunkirk that also make a substantial contribution to the
aerial radioactive discharges that affect our district.

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