| Nuclear power plants currently provide about 17 | | | | larger role in this supply? See GuideMeGreen's green |
| percent of the world's electricity, yet how much of | | | | directory for renewable energy companies and |
| the world's current and future environmental | | | | recycled products in the UK. |
| problems does Nuclear Power contribute to? Nuclear | | | | The report goes on to say that fuel costs for |
| power has both powerful enemies and friends but | | | | nuclear plants are a minor proportion of total |
| does the bottom line come down to costs? The | | | | generating costs, though capital costs are greater |
| December 2005 World Nuclear Association report | | | | than those for coal-fired plants. At the NIA 2006 |
| The New Economics of Nuclear Power states that | | | | launch of the Commission's position paper on the role |
| "Nuclear power is cost competitive with other forms | | | | of nuclear it confirmed "that nuclear is a low carbon |
| of electricity generation, except where there is direct | | | | technology with an impressive safety record in the |
| access to low-cost fossil fuels". The need for cheap | | | | UK" and "Nuclear could generate large quantities of |
| energy can not be argued when every week price | | | | electricity, contribute to stabilising CO2 emissions and |
| increases are announced from all the gas and | | | | add to the diversity of the UK's energy supply." While |
| electricity suppliers in the UK. The Ukraine recently | | | | we have an impressive record of safety in the UK, |
| had their gas supply stopped by Russia, how long is it | | | | Chernobyl has proved that a nuclear accident |
| before this happens to the UK? Do we not need to | | | | thousands of miles away can effect the UK for |
| be self-sufficient when it comes to the generation of | | | | decades to come. |
| power? Can renewable energy not begin to take a | | | | |