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  Nuclear Power
  
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  <p>Those voting No rejected the motion for debate:</p>
  
  <blockquote>This House notes with concern the decision of the Government to put at risk over Â£600 million of public funds in order to prevent the bankruptcy of the privatised nuclear power company British Energy; further notes that several competitor companies in the deregulated market also face financial collapse and that some are petitioning for Government assistance; believes that nuclear power has been shown in a competitive market to be uneconomic as well as to generate long-term environmental costs in respect of waste disposal and decommissioning; further believes that it would be wrong for the Government to continue to bail out British Energy shareholders with a massive unplanned injection of public money or encourage new nuclear power projects; and calls on Her Majesty's Government urgently to bring forward its response to the PIU energy review, with measures to initiate a sustained long-term improvement in energy efficiency and conservation, and to facilitate the more rapid introduction of a variety of new renewable energy technologies as the favoured electricity generating source in the long-term, taking into account the Government's Kyoto targets and the Prime Minister's support for sustainable energy use at Johannesburg.</blockquote>
  
  <p>A new motion was proposed in its place and accepted in <a href="http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2002-10-22&number=327"> the next division</a>.</p>
  
  
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