Nuclear is the only low-carbon alternative in the short-term, so the Ban The Bomb residual emoting is short-sighted, to say the least. Privatisation of the utilities (all of them, including transport) is to blame for the piss-poor energy policies that feature in successive UK government's thinking.
 

Thank god for a Greenbuildingpress with the courage and vision to see beyond the tunnel visioned, centralised industrial governmental policy driven by the huge and massively funded lobbying power of transnational corporations. Please keep on telling it as it really is and lifting the lid off the squalid pot of rancid stew that purports to be an energy policy for the 21st Century, but is really little more than support for the ongoing use of finite resources and the degradation of the planet we all have to share.
 

And without new nukes, what happens when all the old nukes, coal stations and out of date gas stations close overe the next ten years? Idiotic article.