Global warming:-

New nuclear power stations wouldn't stop global warming. Even at the most optimistic build rate - ten new reactors by 2024 our carbon emissions would only be cut by 4 percent : far too little, far too late.Given the nuclear industry's poor previous record it's very unlikely that 10 reactors might be built inside 20 years. Only 1 year into construction, the finish date has been delayed by eighteen months and its costs have spiralled by almost two bill Eurodollars over budget. Worse, new investment in nuclear power and its sub-structure will block development of eco-friendly energy and energy conservation the real answers to global warming.

Energy security:-

Nor would new nuclear power stations address the forecasted opening in our future energy supply.This is as nuclear power only produces electricity and so only slightly deals with our desire for services like hot water and central heating system which are typically met by gas. Its overall contribution to total energy demand is too little to make a contribution to the UK's energy security.

Radioactive waste:-

The United Kingdom now has enough radioactive waste to fill the Royal Albert Hall 5 times over.There's still no safe way to handle it. The govt plans to kill it deep underground - out of the way, out of mind, for the moment at least. But nobody can make sure that this highly radioactive waste will not leak into the environment, contaminating water supplies and the pecking order. Permitting 10 new reactors to be built would add threefold to the quantity of highly radioactive waste we already need to handle. This waste will remain dangerous for as much as 1,000,000 years : a preposterous bequest to leave for many generations to come.

Terrorism:-

Apart from the chance of a terrorist strike at once onto a nuclear power station, the nuclear industry transports thousands of tons of radioactive waste round the UK by road, rail and sea.Each week, communities up and back down the country are put in jeopardy from potential radioactive contamination as these trains wheel thru our towns, cities and hamlets. There aren't any police or security staff on board and there aren't any local plans in place to cope with an emergency. If a radioactive waste train was concerned in a terrorist attack, many thousands of folk may be exposed to cancer causing radiation and entire regions might need to be abandoned.

Safety:-

Over 20 years since the planet's worst nuclear disaster, Chernobyl, the human and environmental results are continuing to be suffered globally. Nuclear power is intrinsically dangerous and, in spite of assertions of enhancements in safety, scientists agree that another disaster on the size of Chernobyl could still occur any time, anywhere. Ironically, global warming itself also threatens the security of nuclear power stations ; many reactors are built on coastal sites exposed to the impacts of sea level rise, including flooding and erosion.

Reprocessing and nuclear expansion:-

Radioactive waste is taken from wherever it is produced, across the land, to Sellafield in Cumbria for reprocessing. The United Kingdom now has a stockpile of over 100 tons of dangerous plutonium - and no plans for what to do with it. One of the basic issues of nuclear power is the jeopardy posed by the radioactive materials it produces some of which can often be utilized in nuclear weapons and all of which may be employed in supposed filthy bombs. Just one particle of plutonium can be lethal.