Four protesters on Saturday blocked a road leading to a nuclear power station at Sizewell in Suffolk for over a couple of hours in protest against a reported UK nuclear expansion.Police said three women and a man had "locked" themselves into place outside the power station using concrete. Officers said a small group also gathered at the site to offer the protesters support, and people arriving for work had found the way in blocked. But, no arrests were made, and after negotiations the protesters unlocked themselves.
A spokesman for the protesters said they were reacting to suggestions that more nuclear power stations could be built. "The protest is being staged because British Energy suggested last week they aim to build four nuclear power stations at their sites in the UK," he said. "We want to show them that it isn't going to be quite as simple as that."
"We were 200 metres from the reactor, if that. If we can do it so can terrorists. Imagine that. We didn't get inside the fence. But protesters have done that before. "If Gordon Brown wants to expand the nuclear industry he should realise that he will face an awful lot of opposition. All the old problems with nuclear power have not gone away."
British Energy announced earlier in the week it had earmarked eight of its sites as possible locations for "next-generation" nuclear plants, as part of a review of work needed to counter the impact of climate change.