Can we trust nuclear power again?

我们还能再次信任核能吗?

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2025-07-09

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Dr Tim Gregory argues that nuclear power is safe, relatively cheap and the only realistic route to achieving net zero targets. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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  • This is The Guardian.

  • Today, are we entering a new golden age for nuclear power?

  • It might be enticing to try and sleep through the next four years,

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  • Most people have been agreed for ages now.

  • Burning fossil fuels is bad.

  • And anyway, they will have run out by the end of the century.

  • For maybe 20 years now, it's all been about renewables, wind turbines,

  • solar panels, hydroelectricity, sustainable forms of energy that won't cost the planet.

  • So when Ed Miliband's Department for Energy Security and Net Zero was awarded a 16% budget increase last month,

  • You'd be forgiven for expecting more windmills, more heat pumps, electric cars for all.

  • Not quite.

  • For all these reasons,