Nuclear power plant site launched by the government plans

 The government has gone ahead with plans for new nuclear power plants in the UK, confirmed a list of eight sites that may be the next generation of reactors built.

The eight sites are: Bradwell, Essex, Hartlepool, Heysham, Lancashire, Hinkley Point, Somerset, Oldbury, South Gloucestershire, Sellafield in Cumbria, Sizewell, Suffolk and Wylfa, Anglesey. All are adjacent to the nuclear sites. It is the first major announcement on the future of nuclear energy in the UK since the disaster of Fukushima in Japan.

Energy and climate change secretary, Chris Huhne, had indicated last month that plans for new reactors in the UK were on the track after an initial report on nuclear Fukushima Chief Inspector Mike Weightman ruled out the need to limit the operation of the stations in the UK.

Plans to build new nuclear power plants are part of a series of national policy statements on energy were released Thursday after a public consultation.

Be debated and voted in parliament, but ministers hope that a pro-nuclear majority in the Commons, he will win.

The energy minister Charles Hendry said: "These plans provide our energy needs to help guide the planning process, so if acceptable proposals presented in the right places, will not face unnecessary ups expected."

Nuclear power is one of the issues that divide conservatives and liberal Democrats when they entered the government, the coalition agreement that allows deputies Liberal Democratic refrain. Huhne, a Liberal Democrat, has endorsed the construction of new reactors.

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