Bit Late In Writing This...

There are pros and cons to nuclear power. If you look at the statistics, it has been safer than any other fuel source. The errors made were costly, but not anywhere as frequent or devastating as that from coal, oil and wood. The problem of security and what to do with the spent fuel are serious concerns. It certainly is not a renewable source, you are absolutely correct. The need for investment in wind, solar, geothermal, etc., is great. The report in the news today is very concerning. The report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reveals that there has been a flattening out of release of greenhouse gases, and that is good, but reveals also that a more dramatic decrease in release will be necessary if the earth is to avoid the climate catastrophes that will result from climate change.

They don't call it renewable energy. They call it zero carbon emissions energy, and they would be right.

The technology used today, is not the same they used in the 1970s, while they were building the plants you were protesting.

It was a budget for the rich unfortunately. Income tax rate is still frozen, so for most people that means paying more. A pension tax break for the 1% though…

I'd be surprised if they really made such a gaffe, but unfortunately we will never have enough electricity from wind, water and sun alone.

More to the point though is something singularly lacking from all the debates on "energy" - apart from my wondering if most politicians and campaigners even known Energy from Power, let alone have any basic science and engineering knowledge at all.. That missing point is not fuels. It is Materials.

No more petroleum and coal by choice or depletion, fast-dwindling sources of metals although most metals are salvageable at cost of a lot of electricity and some attrition.... then what do we do? We can't run the world just on electricity, even if it always possible to generate enough anyway, by any means.

No more materials, and no more electricity-generating equipment, certainly not as presently designed.

Don't tell the Just-stop-oil goons though. They would not understand it.

You are right but it is not the lesser of two evils when compared to burning fossil fuels.
We can probably switch to cleaner true renewable energy in the long term but we need to reduce carbon emissions more urgently.

No, they said it's environmentally sustainable, which is an unarguable fact. You can be against it all you want, but what you said isn't true....

I'd say nuclear power has only gotten marginally safer since the 80s. But, what we've learned since then about fossil fuels and global warming changes the calculus. I now think that we need every method possible to wean ourselves off fossil fuels. Yes, there are risks storing nuclear fuel into the far future. but the present risks of fossil fuels outweigh them.

Whole heartly agree with you their a joke .

Well said, sweetie! Feel pretty much the same. I heard what Mr Hunt said and my jaw hit the proverbial floor. Shocking!