[freefeet]

Another thought here that not many seem to address is the fuel.

Where are we going to get all the nuclear fuel for these power stations from and how much is that going to cost - not only in terms of cash but also in terms of environmental damage?

I was reading recently (not sure how accurate the report was) that most of the shallow buried uranium has already been mined out in Australia and that they're having to go deeper and deeper for it, causing more expense and certainly much more CO2 being produced by machinery to mine and transport it. That doesn't even begin to address the effects on local environments and communities caused by the mining in the first place.

Then as other countries nuclear-fy their generating systems, there's going to be a increasingly larger international demand for a dwindling supply of nuclear fuel - this stuff is going to get extremely expensive in the years to come.

What the UK has to face is that we cannot go on relying on other countries for all our energy needs. We need to exploit the energy sources available to us here - wind and tidal make so much more sense.