The Hidden Costs of Nuclear Power: UK’s Route to its 2050 Low Carbon Target
The UK operates 19 reactors that provided 15.7% of the country's electricity needs in 2010. The cost of supplying this electricity is cheap. The big six electricity suppliers make their profit from an industry which provides poor value for money to the taxpayer and leaves us with a toxic legacy that exceeds 1,000 lifetimes. Maintaining the infrastructure surrounding electricity supplied by nuclear fuels is prohibitively expensive. An argument can be made that all ancillary costs must be included in the generation cost of nuclear power in order to calculate a realistic cost per MWh.