Non-nuclear Sustainable Energy Futures for Germany and the UK

Abstract

It is sometimes argued in Britain and elsewhere that nuclear power must be an essential element in the electricity generating mix of large, developed countries if they are to make major cuts in CO2 emissions by mid-century. For example, the UK Prime Minster, Tony Blair, addressing the Labour Party Conference on September 27 2005, urged the nations of the world, in response to the challenge of climate change, ‘to develop together the technology that allows prosperous nations to adapt and emerging ones to grow sustainably; and that means an assessment of all options, including civil nuclear power’.