Power station protest group leave

Protestors had launched an anti-nuclear power demonstration

Five climate change campaigners who had blockaded a nuclear power station have now left the site.

The group attached themselves to a concrete block at Sizewell A and B Power Station at Leiston in Suffolk.

Their spokesman said climate change was a problem young people had to solve and nuclear power should not be used.

Sizewell's station director Brian Dowds claimed the nuclear power plant had no carbon dioxide emissions and was not contributing to climate change.

Protester Adam Conway said: "Climate change is our generation's problem and we have to solve it.

No emissions

"People should not be using nuclear power anyway because it is giving new problems to future generations."

Mr Dowds said: "All our emergency services have been energized and instead of doing their normal day jobs they are dealing with this situation.

"For us it's a surprise. We believe we're the only electricity generator that does not produce carbon dioxide emissions so I think they've got it wrong."

Sizewell B is capable of supplying more than 1.5 million homes - roughly the equivalent of the daily domestic needs of Suffolk and Norfolk.

The station supplies 3% of the UK's entire electricity needs.

A Suffolk Police spokeswoman said: "Officers are currently on the site and we will continue to monitor the situation."