UK Push for Big Nuclear Expansion

[Steel Bat]

Business secretary John Hutton is to call for a "significant expansion" in Britain's nuclear power industry.

In a speech to the Unite trade union, he argues the industry should go beyond replacing its 23 ageing reactors, which provide 20% of the UK's electricity.

He will call for the creation of a £20bn industry with 100,000 new jobs - making the UK "the gateway to a new nuclear renaissance across Europe".


Source & full article - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7313986.stm

[Steel Bat]

IMO Britain will need to go further down the path of Nuclear Energy. Relying on foreign gas has led to extortionate energy prices for the consumer and ugly great wind turbines will never create enough power for the country.

[Val]

I don't know much about nuclear energy except that it did provide loads of jobs and if its clean and we don't get the nuclear waste its got to be good. The waste worries me though.