What is it with this government and nuclear power? One of the main trusts seems to be that Nuclear is a low-carbon energy source, however exchanging carbon emissions for highly hazardous radioactive waste for which our only solution seems to be to bury it in the ground seems at most short-sighted. Goodness knows what the cost of building these plants might be but they’ll dwarf the £20 billion economic bonanza that government minister John Hutton predicts in his Nuclear is UK’s new North Sea oil speech. Wouldn’t the money be better spent on energy efficiency and renewables. From production to consumption our current systems are hugely wasteful, there’s plenty of room for improvement and as for renewables, wind, wave and tidal can surely meet or needs.