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“The reality is that nuclear energy doesn’t always fit every context,” said David Scott, executive director of economic and energy affairs at the Abu Dhabi Executive Affairs Authority…… We can find many instances in which parties have tried to implement nuclear power in the wrong context, which leads to high costs and exposes populations to a greater risk of accident so it’s important to find the right context for nuclear energy.”

Mr Scott was speaking at the New Nuclear International Conference at the Ritz Carlton Hotel.//// “Some countries might have the money but it might be seismically active, so when parties try and force that square peg to fit into a round hole, it creates problems,” he said.

Those problems can lead to significant financial losses once countries eventually realise their power plants are not economically competitive….. different security apparatuses and legal frameworks in different countries can pose a serious challenge to the security of nuclear power…….

Increasing climate change is also a concern.

“It could be something that we will see in the future if sea levels rise around what people project,” Mr Scott said. “There will be certain plants that will start to face a different environment that they were in initially, because of storms and the possibility of flooding which can be problematic. And they will have to invest in very expensive engineering solutions such as creating changes to sea walls and amendments to the plant such as sealing entry ways…..