Climate change in an energy hungry world brings new nuclear dawn

Discusses the future of the UK nuclear power industry. As we reach the end of the first decade of the 21st Century, those in the nuclear sector and the energy sector more generally have cause for optimism because for the first time in a generation new nuclear power plants are seen as part of the solution to climate change and security of energy supply. In seeking to decarbonise our energy supplies, it is inevitable that there will be significant demands on the electricity sector in ramping up renewables and in switching from fossil fuel dependency for transport and for heating in our homes. The lecture sets the UK's position into a global context in describing issues associated with carbon reduction targets, reducing supplies of fossil fuels and opportunites for UK companies associated with the increasing globalisation of the supply chain in the nuclear sector.