can nuclear power really meet our future energy needs?
The UK government certainly seems to believe that nuclear power should, at the very least, make a significant contribution to energy supply. Following on from his official backing for a new generation of nuclear power stations earlier this year, prime minister Gordon Brown declared last week that around 1,000 new nuclear power stations will be needed around the world to fight climate change and end our global ‘addiction to oil’. The rhetorical conviction has not gone unnoticed. ‘Not since Margaret Thatcher returned from a visit to see the French nuclear plants has a prime minister shown such enthusiasm for nuclear power’, concluded one commentator. Such talk has been music to the ears of the Nuclear Industry Association (NIA), whose chairman Lord O’Neill will be speaking at next week’s spiked debate. The association remains confident that the UK’s nuclear industry will prove capable of building and maintaining new nuclear power stations without government subsidies. Others, however, do
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