Paying the Price for Nuclear Power

Summary


IT is pretty well taken for granted that once the election is out of the way, the Government will renew its commitment to nuclear energy.

Hints to this effect have been dropped since last autumn, and in recent months the efforts by the likes of Amec and BNFL to lead an informed debate about the benefits of nuclear power, coupled with blunt warnings from the electricity industry that it may not be able to maintain supplies, have led to more and more stories surfacing about the Prime Minister's conviction that nuclear is the only way to deliver the energy the country needs without adding to carbon emissions.

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Paying the Price for Nuclear Power

The issue is quite simple. No one doubts the Government's commitment to renewable energy and particularly wind farms, even though they are expensive.

But what is missing is an understanding that w...

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