Catch up: Military Influences on UK Nuclear Power Decisions
Posted: 20th March 2024
Professor Andy Stirling of the University of Sussex gave a fascinating talk last night, well worth watching and sharing. What an extraordinary story!
This was a webinar organised jointly between Abingdon Peace Group and Salisbury CND.
Here it is on YouTube: https://youtu.be/cs0zhZ1RAvM
This webinar reviewed the current situation in which the government seems irrationally wedded to civil nuclear power. Despite its very high costs, very long lead-times, inflexibility and unsolved problems of long term storage of waste, plans forge ahead for yet more investment in this area. It is only when the military need for nuclear engineers and infrastructure is understood that the government’s planning can be seen for what it really is. These links have been denied for years and Professor Andrew Stirling has been at the forefront of exposing the truth. This distortion of the Uk’s energy policy and its implications for electricity users, and indeed the climate, is something we all need to know more about.