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Wed 11 Nov 2009Irish bishops 'totally' oppose development of Sellafield
IRELAND’S CATHOLIC bishops are “totally opposed” to the redevelopment of the Sellafield nuclear plant in Cumbria, west England, and would also oppose any plans to build a nuclear reactor in Ireland, the Archbishop of Cashel Most Rev Dermot Clifford said yesterday.
He was speaking in the context of this week’s announcement by the British government that it had identified 10 sites for the next generation of nuclear power plants in the UK, including at Sellafield.
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