People Against Wylfa-B

PAWB also contend that nuclear power plants are vastly expensive and that cheaper, more environmentally friendly alternatives exist for electricity production.

For many years after the Chernobyl disaster nuclear power was off the policy agenda in most countries and like many anti-nuclear groups world-wide, PAWB disbanded.

[6] In 2009 Horizon Nuclear Power (originally an E.ON and RWE joint venture, bought by Hitachi in 2012) [7] announced intentions build two advanced boiling water reactors (ABWRs) at a site to the south of the existing Wylfa station.

[8][9] Amongst PAWB's activities to have been a protest demonstration in Llangefni in January 2012 to support the Jones family of Caerdegog Farm who refused to sell their land to Horizon for the construction of the new plant.

In 2015, at PAWB's invitation, Naoto Kan the prime minister of Japan at the time of the Fukushima disaster, visited Anglesey to plead for further nuclear power developments to be stopped.