County council leader Eddie Martin demanded action from the government at a special meeting in London.
He believes a replacement for Sellafield would spare the county from being saturated with turbines.
A committed opponent of windfarms, Mr Martin says Cumbria has “more than its fair share” and is not prepared to accept any more.
Mr Martin and the leaders of Allerdale and Copeland councils
travelled to Westminster for a meeting with Baroness Verma, junior
minister at the Department of Energy and Climate Change, to discuss
nuclear power and waste disposal in the county.
He said: “We need nuclear power at Sellafield now, not in five or eight or 10 years’ time.
“If the government were to encourage, persuade and cajole the private
sector to build a new power station, we could dispose of all these
windfarms.
“A nuclear power station is not as destructive as an avalanche of windfarms.”
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