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Greenpeace have attacked Gordon Brown’s calls to increase nuclear production to resolve the energy crisis. Using no less than 7 crisis which have arisen in the industry last week, Greenpeace called upon Gordon Brown to drop the “costly” and “unsafe” nuclear option and focus upon investing in real zero-emission technologies.

“The energy crunch is of our own making. By refusing to embrace new technologies early on, the UK is now dangerously behind its European neighbours in areas like energy efficiency, decentralised energy and renewables. The German renewable energy sector now generates more power than our entire nuclear fleet. In the time it would take us to build a new nuclear power station they will have added gigawatts more. In the time it takes to read this blog, a German installer has probably bolted another few solar energy systems onto another few roofs.

Instead of planning for the future, the government has sat on its hands until the only answer is to repeat the nuclear clarion call in the hope that the public will accept it as an unfortunate, but necessary evil. As experience has shown time and again, expensive, dangerous and unreliable nuclear reactors are not the answer to climate change. Instead, the transition to a zero carbon age will require true vision, political will and massive amounts of courage.”

You can read more of Greenpeace’s response to Gordon’s call for nuclear energy through one of the links below:

• Will there be blood?
• Black Tuesday blights Gordon’s Nuclear vision