Leading experts opt for 100 per cent renewables and reject nuclear power

The undersigned believe that a future based on 100 per cent renewable energy underpinned by traditional and advanced energy efficiency and storage techniques is not only practicable, affordable, but immensely preferable to one that involves nuclear power. Renewable energy offers us a rapid path to net zero carbon transition that, unlike nuclear power, does not involve the need for decommissioning of radioactive plant, nuclear waste or concerns about safety or security threats. With this in mind we regard the prospect of the Government effectively offering unlimited sources of funding to EDF to build Sizewell C nuclear power plant with dismay and urge people to send in their objections to their MPs at this prospect.

  • Dr David Toke, Director, 100percentrenewableuk,

also Reader in Energy Politics, University of Aberdeen.

  • Jonathon Porritt,

Founder, Director, Forum for the Future

  • Professor Tom Burke

Founding Director of E3G

  • Professor Peter Strachan

The Robert Gordon University
Aberdeen Business School

  • Dr Paul Dorfman

Founder and Chair Nuclear Consulting Group
Honorary Senior Research Associate UCL Energy Institute

  • Professor Bryan Wynne,

Professor of Science Studies and Research Director of the Centre for the Study of Environmental Change

  • Professor Andrew Stirling,

Professor of Science and Technology Policy,

University of Sussex

  • Professor David Elliott,

Technology Policy Group

The Open University

  • Professor Stephen Thomas,

Public Services International Research Unit (PSIRU)

University of Greenwich

  • Professor Mark Jacobson,

Director of Atmosphere/Energy Program,

Stanford University (USA)

  • Professor Christian Breyer,

Lappeenranta University of Technology (Finland)

  • Shaun Burnie

Independent Nuclear Consultant

  • Dr Ian Fairlie,

Vice President CND

  • Pete Wilkinson

Chairman, Together Against Sizewell C (TASC)

  • Dr Philip Johnstone

Research Fellow
Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU)

  • Dr Mark Diesendorf

Associate Professor and Deputy Director
Institute of Environmental Studies
UNSW Australia

  • Dr Stephen Connelly

Department of Town and Regional Planning
University of Sheffield

  • Dr Gavin Mudd

School of Engineering

RMIT University

  • Dr Monica Oliphant

Past President International Solar Energy Society

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