CND article for Labour "Does Britain really need nuclear power?"

 Secretary is now asking GB Energy to assess sites
to be used to host new nuclear reactors. And the Prime Minister continues
to push for so-called Small Modular Reactors and has backed the US
President’s wishful thinking of ‘a golden age of nuclear’. But these
announcements and proposals are mostly pie-in-the-sky statements and should
be treated with a pinch (or more) of salt, as the reality is otherwise.
Let’s look at what is happening in the rest of the world. Last year, a
record 582 GW of renewable energy generation capacity was added to the
world’s supplies: almost no new nuclear was added. Indeed, each year, new
renewables add about 200 times more global electricity than new nuclear
does. Of course, there are powerful economic arguments for this. The main
one is that the marginal (i.e. fuel) costs of renewable energy are close to
zero, whereas nuclear fuel is extremely expensive. Nuclear costs – for
both construction and generation – are very high and rising, and long
delays are the norm. For example, the proposed Sizewell C nuclear station
is now predicted to cost £47 billion, with the government and independent
experts acknowledging even this estimate may rise significantly. The upshot
is that new nuclear power means massive costs, a poisoned legacy to future
generations, and whopping radioactive pollution.

 Labour Outlook 10th Nov 2025

 https://labouroutlook.org/2025/11/10/does-britain-really-need-nuclear-power-campaign-for-nuclear-disarmament/