Unachievable Nuclear Programme

Launch of papers on unachievable nuclear programme. ‘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.