Not so sure John Gray's article is that wonderful. A great thinker would recognise that electricity generation is only a minority part of our energy use, and that known uranium resources extractable at reasonable prices are only sufficient for 85 years at current nuclear power usage rates (see authorative IAEA report). So a great thinker would realise that our current nuclear power technology can make little impact on the wider global warming problem.

My view is that we should continue nuclear R&D, as one day the technology will develop into a good safe power generation technology. But the present generation of nuclear power stations have too many problems and are uneconomic without significant subsidy. Our resources are better spent on other efficiency approaches, like insulation and CHP. But there is less profit in that for big industry, so we need to resist the commercial lobby.

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