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Geography, Geology and the Environment

Strategy for approach to Nuclear Power

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Posted on 14 October 2011

The UK government urgently needs to establish a long-term strategy for its planned programme of new nuclear power, according to a major new report issued by the Royal Society yesterday.

Professor Peter Styles, Head of the Applied and Environmental Geophysics Research Group, School of Physical and Geographical Sciences, was a member of the Royal Society Working Group whose report says that despite the government's commitment to nuclear power in the UK, there is still a short sighted approach to planning and research.

The report says the government needs to make this strategic judgement now, to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past and burdening future generations with a legacy of spent nuclear fuel.  It is also essential that the UK's new nuclear power programme takes into account the UK's civil stockpile of plutonium, which is the largest in the world, says the report.

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