In the Guardian today:

Miliband reveals plans that could mean nuclear power plants built near homes Changes to regulation to speed up development could also make it easier to build on sensitive nature sites. Ed Miliband has unveiled plans that could make it easier to build nuclear power plants closer to homes and on sensitive nature sites, as he attempts to speed up the development of energy infrastructure. The energy secretary set out changes to nuclear regulation, to be carried out this year, which would mean a “win-win for building critical infrastructure while protecting nature and the environment”. However, ministers were quickly accused of “irresponsible deregulation” and putting nature at risk.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/13/nuclear-power-generation-uk-deregulation-plans-ed-miliband

Before looking at just how irresponsible this is, would it affect Scotland?

Miliband: Labour will invite nuclear bosses to Scotland day after election win https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/scotland-scottish-government-ed-miliband-labour-snp-b2850511.html

I know, it’s not going to happen in May but don’t think that will be the end of their schemes to find a way round what are only planning laws in Scotland and, remember, the recycling of all this extra activity will stay in Cumbria, upwind and upstream of all of Scotland, which, you may remember has the highest cancer rates in the UK and in Europe.

Irresponsible?

I’ve written so many reports on the all-too-real dangers of living anywhere near nuclear power plants, generating or recycling. UK Government sources, the nuclear industry and those so-called academics in institutions dependent on money from the industry and government will deny the risk or callously assert that they’re statistically insignificant – eg only 4 extra deaths, who cares?

The independent research:

How dangerous is it to live 5km from a nuclear power station like Labour’s new one proposed for Anglesey, 360km from Westminster? It depends whom you ask but EVERY German study says it doubled childhood leukaemia risk

German researchers reveal how radioactive emissions spike up to 500 times everyday running levels during inspection or refuelling to put unborn and younger children at great risk of cancer and further undermine Labour’s plans for new nuclear power stations in North Ayrshire and East Lothian

German Minister of Environment rules that mini-reactors of kind proposed by Scottish Labour are ‘not an option’

A message for Scotland’s voters as Labour double down on nuclear – Researchers revisit study of Essex nuclear power station and breast cancer incidence among mature women nearby to find an even greater risk, only a short distance from new Sizewell C, and an ‘establishment bias and cover-up’

For more, much more, click on: https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/?s=nuclear