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As world leaders gather in Glasgow to discuss tackling climate change, Britain’s current nuclear fleet passed a significant milestone, clocking up 2000 terawatt hours of clean power generation. That’s enough zero carbon electricity to power all the UK’s 29 million homes for 18.5 years.
Nuclear societies call for COP26 to support nuclear World Nuclear News, 02 June 2021 …… They are calling on UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, COP26 President Alok Sharma and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa to acknowledge nuclear’s crucial position alongside renewables in attaining net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. In February this year, Nuclear for Climate – a grassroots [?] initiative published its COP26 Position Paper, titled Net Zero Needs Nuclear. Geraldine Thomas, well known schill for the nuclear indust...
02 June 2021 Share Over 100 nuclear societies around the globe have called for world leaders to "follow the science" and recognise that nuclear energy output must at least double by 2050 to meet global net-zero targets. The call comes ahead of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) being held in Glasgow from 1-12 November this year. (Image: Nuclear for Climate) The societies - representing over 80,000 young professionals, engineers, scientists, nuclear experts, environmentalists and concerned citizens - agree COP26 represents "a critical opportunity for world nations to ...