Re: NEF claims more nuclear power is not way forward

On 31 Aug, 17:13, "daestrom" <daestrom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Hello newsgroup members,

This might be of interest to someone:

An environmental think-tank in the UK, New Economics Foundation (NEF),
has said that more nuclear power plants in the country is not the way
forward for cutting carbon emissions from the power generation sector
and reducing the consumption of imported fossil fuels because
implementing a nuclear building programme will be slow, expensive and
risky. Additionally, it will not have enough of an impact to prevent
climate change nor guarantee energy supply security. According to NEF,
the cost of building new nuclear reactors is actually triple what is
being claimed by supporters of such plans.
Source: Energy Business Review

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While I agree that building nuclear plants is 'slow', and you'd have to
build a lot of them if that is the only action you take to reduce CO2
emissions, where is the proof that costs are 'actually triple what is being
claimed'? Is this political group (NEF) more informed about construction
costs? Why are they more 'expert' than the 'experts'??

Nuclear reactors would take five to six years to build for the first
of a series, falling to about 3 years after a few have been built.


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