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Energy and Climate Change and Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Does my hon. Friend not agree that, in costing nuclear power, the Government must include the huge cost—£18 billion was recently suggested—of providing the underground long-term waste storage facility? The industry will never pay for that; it just assumes that the taxpayer will pick up the bill. If that was included in the costs, it would become quite clear not only that not a penny should go to nuclear power, but that the money should go into real clean and renewable energy, which is not nuclear.