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The Green Party in Northern Ireland has teamed up with its Scottish colleagues to oppose plans to build nuclear power plants here.

The party said it regretted that it had become the only Assembly party opposing the controversial energy source.

UP TO six new stores for nuclear waste are planned for Scotland in a move which will create a new confrontation between the Scottish government and Westminster.

Scottish ministers - who have already effectively blocked Westminster plans for new nuclear power stations north of the Border - believe waste from our existing power stations should be kept in Scotland rather than transported to a dump near Sellafield in Cumbria.

Both the UK government and British Energy, which operates the nuclear power stations, are opposed to the move.

The SNP government is considering building long-term storage facilities at or near to existing nuclear sites. This means that Hunterston in North Ayrshire, Torness in East Lothian and Dounreay in Caithness could all end up with waste stores, along with possibly Chapelcross in Dumfries and Galloway, Rosyth in Fife and Faslane in Dunbartonshire

SCOTLAND doesn't want nuclear power and we don't want the waste dumped on our shores or under our land.

We are not backward thinking - we just believe it is too dangerous for the environment and our children.

Now the Westminster Government wants to build new nuclear power stations to provide 20 per cent of our energy.

But that is only about electricity - it has no impact on cars, lorries and planes that will still run on petrol and destroy the ozone layer.