Parliamentary Committee Says No to Nuclear

The all-party Environment Audit Committee has released a new report, Keeping the Lights On: Nuclear, Renewables and Climate Change, that states:

"Over the next 10 years, nuclear power cannot contribute either to the need for more generating capacity or to carbon reductions as it simply could not be built in time ... Nuclear power raises a variety of issues which would need to be satisfactorily resolved before any decision to go ahead is taken."

It highlights problems such as: terrorism, nuclear proliferation risks, safety, public acceptability, long-term waste disposal, and the availability of uranium.

At present, coal and nuclear supplies about 60 percent of Britain's electricity. We need to flip that around, i.e. 60% decentarlised renewables, and Coventry could be a lead council in that process.