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The hidden costs of nuclear power: UK’s route to its 2050 low carbon target (2011)

Auteur	K.Ente
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Datum	juni 2011
Classificatie	2.05.0.00/57 (GROOT-BRITTANNIË - ALGEMEEN)
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Executive Summary

Site licenses and planning to construct eight new nuclear power stations generating 
16GW of electricity for the UK is moving apace. Especially now, post Fukushima, in 
light of recent gloomy forecasts of economic growth, government’s duty is to ensure 
that taxpayers funds are wisely managed. One of DECC’s many charges is to ensure 
that investments made in energy transmission and supply are planned strategically 
for the long term, are future proofed and then carefully executed.

To achieve economic success in infrastructural investment, the UK energy policy 
must move closer to distributed energy resources, renewable energy generation and 
gas fired plants for base load generation, moving away from any investment in new 
nuclear power stations. As Walt Patterson wrote “Replacing centralized with diverse 
and dispersed distributed generation on a system enhances rather than undermines 
its stability1 But how are we going to finance the billions required to upgrade our 
system of energy generation and delivery? This paper identifies the taxpayer’s 
current investment in the nuclear industry, most of which is unlikely to be 
commonly known, and then looks at the alternative.

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