A PUBLIC meeting will be held next Tuesday (11th February) to discuss a potential nuclear development at Oldbury, located five miles from Chepstow.

Severnside Together Against Nuclear Development (STAND) will meet at the Drill Hall, Chepstow at 7.30 to discuss how they believe the proposed nuclear power plant is unnecessary, unsafe, dangerous to health and a hugely expensive method of producing electricity.

According to the group, an international statistician and epidemiologist calculated there is a one in 200 chance of a serious Fukushima type accident at the nuclear power station. With Chepstow situated five miles away from the site, STAND says the town is well within the evacuation zone imposed after the Fukushima disaster.

The proposed power plant will have three or four new reactors next to the old power station, said to produce eight times the electricity of the old station.

Barbara French of STAND claims that building a new nuclear station on the site would be "utter folly". She said: "With rising sea levels, and the history of a tsunami and a sea surge of three metres above normal high tide up the Severn, it is madness to be building on that site.

"It can only be a matter of time before it suffers a catastrophic flood, one way or another. Should there be a serious accident, the experience of Chernobyl in the Ukraine, and more recently Fukishima in Japan, shows that not only Chepstow and the Forest of Dean, but large areas of Gloucestershire, and the whole of Bristol would be uninhabitable, perhaps for ever.

"Unlike in Japan, there appear to be no plans at all to protect the local population should there be an accident.

"They say that plans produced by Horizon show the intended reactor size will be four times the size of the present reactor building and, on top of that, the three or four cooling towers will be absolutely enormous and an eyesore."

For further information visit the STAND website: http://www.standagainstoldbury.org">www.standagainstoldbury.org