UNITED KINGDOM Election Could Shift Landscape for Nuclear Power

摘要

The outcome of next week's UK general election could have a profound impact on the extent to which the country pursues an aggressive nuclear newbuild program beyond the two reactors currently under construction. That's despite the fact that the issue has barely been raised during the electoral campaign, which will end when voters go to the polls next Thursday, Dec. 12. The primary issue is if and how Brexit is implemented, but the main political parties all have plans to address the threat of global climate change by achieving a “net-zero” carbon econo- my, and these plans could have dramatically different effects on the country's nuclear sector.