Nuclear News March edition - How the coalition are deceiving the public about nuclear subsidies

Have a read of the Nuclear News latest edition there's an interesting quote from Johnathan Porrit about how the Coalition are conning the public about any future costs of decommisisoning & waste management of their planned nuclear new build.

There is also some discussion of  how pathetic our governments attempts are at Renewables (but then this is no surprise is it) putting all of your eggs in the nuclear basket sucks all potential investment from clean green safer alternatives.

This is (one of ) the problem(s) with politicians and the political system in this country. Politcians make short term decisions about what is politically expedient in the short term (& personally finacially lucrative for them when they come out of office). It is easier for them to force nuclear centralised energy (that they profit out of as they come out of office look at John Hatton) on us so that they dont have to have more important dialogues with the nation about the way forward. Greenpeace have recently published a report called Energy [R]evolution which shows how Europe could be 97% renewable by 2050.

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/climate-change/energyrevolution/

As well as being financially lucrative to these people when they'r out of power Nuclear is and always has been about Global power politics too. Even leading up to WWII we were desperately racing the Americans to be the first to build the bomb. All of these reactors were military installations for producing Plutonium, what's more, to fit the political agenda of the time this technology was developed hastily against the "better judgement" of the scientist involved (although whether they had any better judgement at all is debatable given what they were doing).

The Coalition government & the labour government before them are all warmongers and this is the reality of why they hang on to nuclear to preserve their power in the world as they feel increasingly impotent as the economies outgrow & overtake us. The government have, despite apparently shelving discussion about replacing Trident for now, ordered the first metal for working on the project, something that there is discussion about at the moment, I'll post more about it here later.