The Government has dropped plans to build a ten-mile barrage across the Severn estuary to Nuclear Sites Revealed As Tidal Plan Axed
An official study said there was currently no "strategic case" for investing public money in such a scheme, the costs of which could run to more than £30 billion, although it said it could be reconsidered as a longer-term option in the future.
But the Department of Energy and Climate Change paved the way for new nuclear power plants at eight sites - Bradwell, Essex; Hartlepool; Heysham, Lancashire; Hinkley Point, Somerset; Oldbury, South Gloucestershire; Sellafield, Cumbria; Sizewell, Suffolk and Wylfa, Anglesey.
The coalition Government has already said it will give the go-ahead to companies who want to build new nuclear plants, provided there is no public subsidy involved, despite the Lib Dems opposing new nuclear power stations in opposition.
All the potential new sites are in the vicinity of existing nuclear power plants.
Three other proposed sites, at Dungeness in Kent, and Braystones and Kirksanton in Cumbria, were ruled out.
The sites were announced as part of a package aimed at providing certainty for the industry, including more detail on what would be required in terms of clean-up and the Government's policy of no subsidies.
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