"You are not going to get a tsunami in the west coast of Scotland'.

That was one of the comments when the SNP-led council suffered a surprise defeat over the future of nuclear power during a highly charged debate at Cunninghame House H.Q in Irvine.

Labour councillor Alex Gallagher put forward a motion "that the council writes to the Scottish Government requesting that the presumption in favour of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) power generation at the Hunterston site be removed, and that a presumption in favour of Nuclear Power Generation at Hunterston (Hunterston C) be inserted into the NPF."

SNP Leader Willie Gibson accused Cllr. Gallagher of 'trying to embarrass' the SNP administration with the motion, while his colleague Cllr. Matt Brown that there was no future in nuclear.

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