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Nuclear power plants presently provide about 17 percent of the world's electricity, yet just how much of the planets current and potential environmental problems does Nuclear Power donate to? Nuclear power has both powerful enemies and friends but does the underside line fall to costs? The December 2005 World Nuclear Association report The New Economics of Nuclear Power suggests that Nuclear energy is price competitive with other styles of electricity generation, except where there is direct use of low-cost fossil fuels. The requirement for inexpensive energy can not be argued when each week cost increases are reported from all the gas and electricity companies in the united kingdom. The Ukraine recently had their fuel supply stopped by Russia, how long can it be before this happens to great BRITAIN? Do as it pertains to the technology of energy we not want to be self-sufficient? Can green power maybe not start to have a greater part in this source?

The report continues to state that fuel costs for nuclear plants are a minor amount of total generating costs, although capital costs are greater than those for coal-fired plants. At the NIA 2006 launch of the Commissions position paper on the role of nuclear it proved that nuclear is a low carbon technology by having an outstanding safety record in the UK and Nuclear could generate large quantities of energy, add to stabilising CO2 emissions and add to the range of the UKs energy supply. While we've a remarkable record of safety in britain, Chernobyl has proved a nuclear accident tens and thousands of miles away could effect the UK for many years to come. The Tsunami also caused problems at Nuclear Power plants around Asia as the plants are built near the sea due to the massive amount water needed to cool the rectors. the energy consultant