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Debate "The nuclear option is the only green option"
Proposer: Professor Sir David King
Today, none but the
most ill-informed can maintain that we do not face massive problems from
human induced climate change. The most recent IPCC report published at the
end of last year sent a clarion call for real action from the political
world. The scientific prognosis has become increasingly alarming, but the
Kyoto process, begun in 1997, has virtually stalled. A new process needs to
be implemented in Copenhagen in December 2009. In the wake of the UNFCCC
Conference in Bali we will see over the next eighteen months how the world’s
politicians actually measure up to the task.
Reducing emissions will require us to improve energy efficiency and develop
a wide portfolio of new emissions-free technologies. Alternative
technologies and energy-efficiency gains will certainly be needed for the UK
to achieve the government’s target of reducing emissions by 60% by 2050
announced in 2003, or even by 80% as recently announced by the Prime
Minister. This would mean reducing our emissions per capita to about the
same level as in India today. But we will also need other low-emission ways
of making energy. That is why I believe nuclear energy is needed to help
fill part of the UK’s low carbon energy mix. While I have high hopes for new
zero-emission technologies in the future, efficient nuclear-fission power
stations are already available and our needs are pressing. The UK
Government decision to proceed with nuclear new build was only taken after
the most rigorous deliberation.
Nuclear power provides a steady stream of energy, and does not depend on
hydrocarbon supplies from possibly unstable regimes. Nuclear power currently
accounts for approximately 18% of our grid* electricity
generation and 7.5% of total UK energy supplies. Twenty years ago, 30% of
our grid* electricity was generated by nuclear power. Of all the
major countries in the EU, France has the lowest per capita CO2 emissions.
Not coincidentally France also has the highest percentage of nuclear power
on the electricity grid. So we can conclude that nuclear power is
potentially an important part of the programme for decarbonising the
economy.
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