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Japanese disaster Weightman report should give the green light to the program of building new nuclear plants in the UK

The government is expected this week to try using a green light after the chief British inspector Fukushima nuclear safety in order to revive its nuclear program and anti-stuttering climate change.

The measure will be implemented in a hail of criticism from environmentalists who believe that the latest research on the nuclear industry has been driven by fear that the Ministers return to their commitments to environmental issues.

Tuesday, Chris Huhne, the Secretary of Energy is scheduled for the final report by Mike Weightman, Chief Inspector of Nuclear Installations, what lessons should be learned from the disaster at Fukushima reactor in Japan . The report is understood to contain only small modifications to an earlier period, the interim report, which recommendations were made smaller.

Huhne An optimistic message is intended to counter a series of setbacks in the energy sector and the deteriorating financial conditions in the companies to withdraw from the nuclear and threaten to leave the capture and storage (CCS) program. You also need to convince critics that his conservative coalition partners who do not seek to undermine the agenda of low-carbon on the grounds of Great Britain can not afford it.

Greenpeace launched a judicial review for alleged breach of inadequate consultation on nuclear energy and was even more upset by a lack of transparency in the documents handed over to Weightman.

Greenpeace Weightman said the report "developed" many teachings of Fukushima, you can learn a year or 18 months down the line. The group said that the campaign Weightman also promised "to publish all submissions on the website of the Office of Nuclear Regulatory as received", which has not happened yet.
But Charles Hendry, the energy minister, told a meeting was marginalized behind atomic energy.