Now Even “Greens” Are Turning To Nuclear Power

Nuclear power has new converts, according to top UK environmentalists, as they made public their belief that this energy source is still required.

Many have long opposed nuclear power because of the risk of weapons proliferation, as well as the difficulty of waste disposal.

In spite of worries about nuclear power, global warming is seen as a more serious hazard.

Nuclear is seen as an improvement over new coal-fired power plants.

Britain will have a key energy gap over the coming years.

Coal burning power stations and ageing nuclear power facilities will shutdown and the government is obliged to reduce carbon emissions by 80 per cent, not later than 2050.

Therefore, many environmentalists are converting back to nuclear power.

In a momentous piece for the Independent newspaper, a member of the Green Party, a past head of Greenpeace, and Lord Smith, Chairman of the Environment Agency and a prominent columnist, made known their coversion to supporting nuclear energy.

Lord Smith said that they are now alert to the very severe global warming issue, the requirement to take carbon out of electricity over the next decades, and the inescapable need to cut emissions.

One journalist said that yesterday’s anti-nuclear campaigns will eventually be recognised as a major error and the planet’s climate is now suffering from them.

Over the coming 30 years, approximately 10 power stations may be constructed in the UK.

Consultations about appropriate locations are already happening.

Contractors have expressed willingness to commence building in 2013, and the initial facilities may be running by 2018.

Nevertheless, environmentalists still maintain strongly that the predicament of global warming cannot be resolved by nuclear power.

Greenpeace believes that countries like India and China will not halt the burning of coal even if new nuclear facilities come online.

It makes the point that global warming will only be stopped if new methods of energy generation consume economical and conservational recyclables.

Greenpeace said that if the vast amount of money spent on nuclear power had been used on recyclable, effective energy then we would have solved a major difficulty with a major answer.