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Jennifer Tracey | 06:02 UK time, Saturday, 14 November 2009

Listener mock-up of nuclear power site in Kirksanton

Earlier this week, alongside wave, wind and what's called clean coal power stations, for 10 new nuclear facilities and a new planning system.

There was a mixed reaction from listeners who emailed, but there were two that caught our eye and we invited their authors onto the programme to discuss it.

Patrick McCarron is a retired lawyer who's been a strong supporter of nuclear power since the 1950s. He's frustrated it's taken the Government so long to give nuclear the go-ahead.

Sally Millar lives near Kirksanton, one of the proposed sites. She's been talking about climate change as an environmental educator for the last 20 years. (She mocked up the photo above to show what her neighbourhood might look like.)

Here's what happened when we brought them together...








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