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Launch of papers on UK’s unachievable nuclear programme

Launch of papers on unachievable nuclear programme

Today, Friday 1 November we are launching two papers:

• ‘It is time to expose the Great British Nuclear Fantasy once and for all’ (long paper);
• ‘New Nuclear – Unaffordable, Undesirable and Unachievable’ (short paper) (as Word doc).

In our view, these papers irrefutably demonstrate why the government’s proposed vast expansion of nuclear power in the UK is unnecessary, unjustifiable but also impossible.

We believe it is imperative that government reviews and reconsiders its nuclear policy and recognises that it cannot proceed.

The longer paper provides our considered and detailed analysis which reveals that nuclear is too costly, takes too long, is technologically challenged and leaves an expensive and unmanageable burden of wastes for future generations. More than that, there are no suitable sites for new power plants and those that are supposedly ‘potentially suitable’ will all be vulnerable to the impending ravages of Climate Change during their lifetimes.

The shorter paper (which is available for publication) presents our arguments concisely, presenting a fundamental challenge to current orthodoxy on the case for nuclear. At a time of pressure on public spending, nuclear does not represent good value for money, nor is it attractive against other more pressing social welfare priorities.

Biographical Notes:

Andrew Blowers, OBE, Emeritus Professor of Social Sciences, Open University. Former member of Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) and Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee (RWMAC); author The Legacy of Nuclear Power.

Stephen Thomas, Emeritus Professor of Energy Policy, University of Greenwich. Editor-in-Chief of the journal Energy Policy.

November 4, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics, UK