Drift to n-power angers UK greens

British environmentalists expressed anger on Wednesday at growing signs that the government was moving towards approving the building of a n...

British environmentalists expressed anger on Wednesday at growing signs that the government was moving towards approving the building of a new generation of nuclear power stations.

The government’s chief scientist has said that the need for massive investment to replace the country’s ageing nuclear plants was self-evident and Prime Minister Tony Blair has signalled he is moving in the same direction.

“It is the wrong decision”, Friends of the Earth director Tony Juniper said. “Nuclear is unsafe, the technology untested and in any case far too expensive.”

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The shift took the green lobby by surprise after it believed it had won the argument against nuclear power years ago.

All but one of Britain’s nuclear stations will close by 2023. Without new ones, nuclear power will provide four percent of Britain’s electricity by 2010, down from 21 percent now. —Reuters

Algerian-French artist’s work vandalised at Kochi art gallery over ‘obscenity’ allegations

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Algerian-French artist Hanan Benammar's linocut prints were vandalised by two artists at an international exhibition in Kochi. The exhibition, curated by Anushka Rajendran and Damian Christinger, was organised by the Kerala Lalithakala Akademi and opened on October 18.

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