Quotes

alt"If you had asked me 20 years ago about nuclear power, I would have taken the traditional green view and said something like 'over my dead body'. To achieve decarbonisation of our power, nuclear has to be part of the answer." Lord Smith, chairman of the British Environment Agency on 7 May 2012 (source: Financial Times)

France will build a second European Pressurised Water Reactor (EPR), said President Sarkozy pledging a "new industrial revolution.” “The era of inexpensive oil is over. Every EPR saves every year 2 billion m3 of gas when it replaces a gas-fired power plant and eleven billion tonnes of CO2 when it replaces a coal-fired power plant. Nuclear power is more than ever an industry of the future and an essential form of energy." President Nicolas Sarkozy, on 3 July, at the Industeel plant in Le Creusot in the Burgundy region