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The Role of Nuclear Power in a Low Carbon Economy
| Date: | 05/03/2006 |
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| Classification: | SDC Response, Energy, Climate Change |
| Document type: | SDC Reports & Papers |
| Rating: |  (43 reviews) |
| Download: |  SDC-NuclearPosition-2006.pdf - 157 KB |
| Summary: | The SDC’s previous position on nuclear power was agreed in 2001. This report details how and why we have arrived at our new position in 2006, including an in-depth review of all the evidence for a new nuclear programme in the UK and its potential contribution to a low carbon economy. |
| Purpose: | SDC input into the 2006 UK Government's energy review. |
Your comments
 | Most of the sustainable development points for and against are completely moot unless someone decides to throw money at nuclear and I think there's an even stronger case to be made (than is made in this study) that you can get a lot more carbon savings from other technologies for the kind of money you'd have to throw at nuclear to get enough of them running to make a difference. |
 | This is a clear assessment that outlines both the positive and negative issues relating to nuclear energy and makes a clear argument to support that new nuclear reactors are a choice, not an inevitability, and that climate issues can be addressed both with or without nuclear. |
 | a time wasting document that is stuck in the 60s, unfortunatly it will cost lives. read J lovelock for good independant analysis |
 | The 'reality check' is that unless we get new nuclear power stations within the next decade either the 'lights will go out' or more polluting fossil-fuel solutions will be forced upon us. Existing nuclear stations are already being run well beyond their design-life and this situation can only get much worse. Anyone who suggests that there can be clean electricity from coal-fired power stations is frankly fibbing. Unfortunately for us in the UK, the pace of growth in windpower & other renewables is unlikely to be able to fill the gap in the short-term. |
 | In subsequent assessments of the prospects of nuclear energy, please consider the Thorium alternative to Uranium fuel. I have been hearing assertions (and justifications) that the ore-supply problem, operating safety problem, used-fuel processing and storage problem, and weapons-proliferation problem are much more manageable with Thorium. |
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