Business Secretary John Hutton said.

Nuclear power is an essential part of our future energy mix. And, alongside a 10-fold increase in renewables and investment in clean coal technology, it will help wean us off our dependency on oil and protect us against the politicisation of energy supplies.

Justin McKeating at Chicken Yogurt reckons that’s bollocks, he rightly points out that the UK isn’t self sufficient in uranium, which means we’ll have to import Uranium and although the top producers are Canada and Australia, they are closely followed by Kazakstan, Uzbekistan, increasingly Russia, Namibia, and Niger not pleasant nor stable countries to deal with and as everybody seems to want a nuclear power station you can be assured we’ll quickly be relying on some right bastards for our supplies.