Does The UK Need More Nuclear Power Stations?

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Does The UK Need More Nuclear Power Stations?

In this piece of coursework I am going to explain my opinion on the question "Does the UK need more nuclear power stations".

Ever since it was discovered people have wanted and got as much electricity as they wanted, because of this the amount of electricity used and produced has being increasing very rapidly in the last 20years. This is causing several problems, especially the amount of pollution that is being produced by the 'latest' fossil fuelled power stations.

Arguments For and Against Nuclear Power

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Politics-It is predicted that in the nest 15 years the government will be forced to repeat the 8 hour electricity rota, similar to what happened in the 1970's miners strike. Also it is predicted that most of our oil and natural gas will need to come from politically unsafe countries, like Iraq or Russia and this means that they can use their production of fossil fuels as a political 'lever' and you would have situations like "If you do not give us compensation for X, Y or Z then we will shut down our pipelines", this could cause tension between countries