Chancellor George Osborne has announced that the UK will guarantee a £2bn deal under which China will invest in the Hinkley Point nuclear power station.
This has come at the same time as he is cutting subsidies for wind and solar energy.
Wales Green Party said today that any new nuclear build would inevitably produce more toxic waste, and as yet scientists have not found a solution to stabilise the radioactive waste, some of which remains active for millions of years.
Pippa Bartolotti, Wales Green Party leader said: “No local authority wants this waste, the government have not found a solution, and it will haunt generations to come.
“The arguments against nuclear increase with every new fact. The cost is likely to be fixed at twice the going rate for electricity, the installations will be near the sea, which is rising all the time, and the inability to design a safe reactor has held up the building of new reactors right across Europe. No one has dared to factor in the decommissioning costs, which will run into many billions of pounds for the taxpayer.
“True safety and security will only come from our own home grown energy. Job creation in the renewable energy sector far outweighs the jobs in nuclear. In Germany already 370,000 jobs have been created in the renewable sector. The University of Massachusetts estimates that the green economy creates 300 percent more jobs than fossil fuels.”
The Green Party periodically reviews its position on nuclear energy, and remains emphatically against using nuclear build.