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