Sunak is reported to be unhappy with the 13 billion price tag attached to eight new nuclear reactors.
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Bill Lee and Michael Rushton, lecturers in nuclear energy at Bangor University, are unconvinced.
They argue that balancing supply represents just a fraction of nuclear powerspotential contribution to decarbonization.
The heat produced during the nuclear reaction can be diverted to power processes that are currently difficult to decarbonise.
Take heating in buildings, for example.
This is a process that is already carried out daily from municipal waste incinerators across Europe.
And thats not all, they say.
Paul Dorfman is an honorary senior research associate at UCLs Energy Institute.
In a world made increasingly turbulent by climate change, thats a problem, Dorfman argues.
Could nuclear fusion save us?
This releases much more energy than fission and produces no high-level nuclear waste.
Climate policy should prioritise deploying proven technologies immediately, without relying on speculative solutions.
Stopping climate change is too important to leave to the last minute.
