Nuclear Plants in Controlled Explosion Programme

Slow-witted ministers today advised that they now understand the full meaning of Einsteins famous equation E=mc2. "Apparently this formula describes the process of converting mass into energy and as leading GCSE students have advised us, it is the process by which we generate electricity," said one minister.

This discovery led to a rush by Lord Chancellor Henry Invoice to consult his legal books and he was shocked to find that power stations contravened UN Law 251 Abolition of Mass Destruction - (Instruments for the purposes thereof). He explained that for nearly sixty years since Calder Hall came on stream the UK had been flouting World Laws. "These nuclear plants are destroying mass and turning it into energy every minute of every day," he elaborated.

Ministers have now ordered all power plants to be blown up in a series of controlled explosions with immediate effect. A minister explained the process. "It's easy, all you need to do is lift the graphite moderator rods out of the reactor and pull the drain plug. That should have them dismantled in a controlled way in next to no time," he said acknowledging the extensive research done by his eight-year old son on the internet. "We already have a perfect model for rapid deactivation with what's known in the nuclear trade as the Chernobyl Protocol. That was a fine demonstration of how to shut down a reactor quickly with almost no collateral damage I think," he thought.