No choice over nuclear – UK environment secretary Beckett

Nuclear power may have to be embraced in a bid to combat climate change even though it is not a “sustainable” energy source, UK environment secretary Margaret Beckett has admitted.

The environment secretary said she was very reluctant to build new nuclear power stations, but that she had “accepted that it could happen”.

But Mrs Beckett said any investment in nuclear must not be at the expense of renewable energy sources.

An energy policy review is set to be announced early this week.

In an interview with ITV1’s The Jonathan Dimbleby Programme, Mrs Beckett was questioned about her view that nuclear power is not a sustainable energy source.
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