Energy: Nuclear Power

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer Excerpts

Thursday 29th November 2012 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Verma]

As the noble Lord will know from his own previous role in government, we draw on expertise from all sides.

[Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer]

My Lords, is not one of the difficulties faced in establishing any new nuclear build, as the Defra report published last January highlighted, the fact that all eight proposed sites have a low-to-high risk of flooding, most of them ending up with a high risk of flooding within the proposed life of the new nuclear plants? Has the cost of added sea defences where sites can be defended—of course, they cannot be defended where there is coastal erosion—been added into the equation?