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generated heat goes up the chimney or into the cooling water. use of this waste heat to heat houses and factories close to the station, increasing the overall efficiency from 30 to 70 per cent. CHP provides 20.7 per cent of the power used in West Germany, 29 per cent in Belgium and 35.8 per cent in Denmark. Britain has only one CHP station at Battersea their of This is part of what could be achieved under a sane energy policy. That's the kind of policy that the electricity board bosses and the top civil For a servants at the Department of Energy can't and won't develop. They are too closely tied to the interests of the bosses and know only too well on which side their bread is buttered. Instead of the chaos of the current energy policies what is needed is a workers which puts the needs of working people first.
Money The development of such a plan will mean overcoming the combined opposition of CEGB chiefs, top civil servants and the bosses of the nuclear industry. To do that a Labour government will have to link up with workers in the energy workers of GEC and NEI-Parsons. The alternative is to be forced into a corner by the nuclear hierarchy. This is what. happened CHP makes Torness and ment nave sa to nuclear Moscow. gap hypothermia.
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when the Labour government decided to give the go ahead for two new AGRs at Heysham. These two reactors will be the most expensive in the world to date. They weren't need. ed — the AGRs had already proved a disaster. The government's justifica tion, as given by Tony Benn, was that the alternative being pressed for was a £25 billion programme of PWRs. must be learnt. What we need is a strategy to unite workers in the energy and ancillary industries. For too long many sections of the labour movethe ove nuclear power Or they have left the field clear for right wingers like Frank Chapple who claims that opposition power is inspired by the proposed PWR programme the Tories have thrown the gauntlet to the labour movement. It's time for us to face up to the challenge.
Nuclear power isn't safe, it isn't cheap and it won't close the energy There is one energy gap that the PWR programme certainly won't solve - that's the gap which results each and every year in thousands of old people dying of the cold. The tragedy is that the vast expenditure in money and human skill and effort will mean more old people dying from It will mean more families cut off for non-payment of electricity bills. It mean tens of thousands more jobs lost in the coal and transport inThis is the inevitable result of the twisted logic of a system that puts the La few before the jobs, welfare and lives of the vast majority.
This is the facing all ULUSUCU working people if the Torie But there is an alternative. 1983 can also be the year when opposition to nuclear power begins in earnest.
Socialist Challenge 25 February 1983 pag
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