New nuclear age for UK

摘要

In January 2009 the BBC News announced that a new generation of nuclear power stations in the UK has been given formal backing by the British government. It stated that UK Business Secretary Mr. John Hutton told MPs they would give a "safe and affordable" way of securing the UK's future energy supplies while fighting climate change. He said any plants would be built at or near existing reactors by private firms and that he hoped the first one would be completed "well before 2020". Mr. Hutton is also reported to have said that the government had concluded nuclear power was a "tried and tested", and safe technology which had a role to play "in this country's future energy mix alongside other low-carbon sources". Analysis of future gas and carbon prices showed nuclear was "affordable and provides one of the cheapest electricity options available to reduce our carbon emissions".