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Why nuclear reactors are not the future of energy despite what UK Government would have you think.

– Dr Richard Dixon. The UK Government is trying to create the impression that it’s all go for nuclear. It isn’t.
The UK’s nuclear enthusiasts have been on another PR offensive, with
announcements of new reactors and possible life extensions to old reactors.

All of it denying the reality that nuclear is much too slow to build and
much too expensive to be part of our future energy strategy. Globally
nuclear is in terminal decline. In the last five years more renewable
electricity has been generated by just new schemes around the world than by
all the world’s nuclear reactors. And twice as much again is expected to
be constructed in the next five years, taking renewables output to five
times that of nuclear.

Of course the motivation for this burst of
co-ordinated PR is clear, the $20bn for Sizewell C hasn’t been raised so
the UK Government is desperately trying to give the impression that it’s
all go for nuclear in the UK. When it clearly isn’t.

 Scotsman 17th Jan 2024

https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/why-nuclear-reactors-are-not-the-future-of-energy-despite-what-uk-government-would-have-you-think-dr-richard-dixon-4480376

January 21, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | spinbuster, UK