Wylfa B Under Threat

Protesters on Menai Bridge campaign against a new nuclear power station at Wylfa. The new power station is being planned by Horizon Nuclear Power to replace the old Magnox reactor currently reaching the end of it's service with two or three new reactors.

The project, if progressed would create hundreds of much needed jobs on Anglesey and is seen by many as the great white hope for the island in the coming years. However, in the wake of the recent Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami and the subsequent radiation scare from the Fukushima reactors, governments around the world are reviewing their position on the concept of nuclear fuel and the risks that it inevitably carries.

Alan Raymant from Horizon said that the industry had been shocked by what happenned in Japan and insisted that lessons will be learnt for Wylfa. The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, has cast considerable doubt on whether nuclear plants would ever be built. A new power station at Wylfa B would certainly boost the property market in Amlwch and the surrounding areas, if not the whole of Anglesey. Particularly the lettings market which is currently relatively weak.