“Currently the UK has a window of opportunity to deal with its nuclear material and spent fuel management and to maximise the value of its existing assets. The renaissance in new nuclear build creates an advantageous way of using these legacy materials as fuel for new nuclear power plants. Despite the terrible events in Japan, the economic, safety and carbon case for a new build programme in the UK has never been stronger. “ Sir David King, Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford University,  on 29 March on the occasion of the publication of the report, A Low Carbon Nuclear Future