Environmental protesters made their way to Malcolm Wicks' constituency office last Wednesday to highlight the alternatives to nuclear energy as a means of powering Britain.
They visited the office of Mr Wicks who is energy minister and also Croydon North MP in High Street, Thornton Heath, on Chernobyl Remembrance Day.
In 1986 the people of Chernobyl were exposed to radiation 90 times greater than the Hiroshima bomb when a reactor at a nuclear plant exploded.
Chernobyl Children's Lifeline regularly organises visits to places in the UK, including Surrey, for children affected by the disaster in the Ukraine which the United Nations estimates has had an impact on nine million people.
Greenpeace says nuclear power only provides 3.6 per cent of UK energy and that every pound spent on it could be transferred to spending on efficient energy sources that would deliver seven times more carbon savings.
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