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By 2025 the
world demand
for electricity is
expected to rise to
23,000 terawatt
hours, around double
that in 2003
Nuclear generation
is almost carbonfree, and new
technologies have
emerged that
have improved its
efciency
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Ionising radiation
is by far the best
understood human
carcinogen in the
environment
As long as adequate
protection measures
are in force, nuclear
power stations do
not pose a threat to
health
Waste disposal
should not be an
obstacle to new
nuclear build
A terrorist group
with appropriate
hardware might
obtain enough
nuclear material
to build a bomb - at
least in principle
To defeat nuclear
terrorism, none of
our defences need
be perfect
Considerably more
people now support
than oppose the
replacing of old
nuclear plant with
new build
References
1. Nuclear power: keeping the option open,
Institute of Physics Seminar June 2003
2. Government White Paper: Our energy future
- creating a low carbon economy, February
2003
3. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/sci_
tech/2005/nuclear/default.stm
4. Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation
in the Environment (COMARE) 10th Report:
The incidence of childhood cancer around
nuclear installations in Great Britain, (2005)
- www.comare.org.uk
5. www.corwm.org.uk
6. www.nwmo.ca
7. www.world-nuclear.org/info/printable_
information_papers/inf79print.htm
8. www.cdi.org/terrorism/nuclear.cfm
9. Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable
Catastrophe, Graham T. Allison, Owl Books,
(2005) New York
Further reading
Do we need nuclear power?
http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/14/6/2
The nuclear solution
www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/Issues/2005/
February/Thenuclearsolution.asp
Chemical science priorities for sustainable energy
solutions
www.rsc.org/ScienceAndTechnology/Policy/
SustainableEnergySolutions.asp
Challenges and solutions: UK energy to 2050
www.geolsoc.org.uk/template.cfm?name
=Solutions
Trust needs to be
built up between
the public and
government, the
regulatory bodies
and industry
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