over the longer term.

The question is whether to do so we need an energy production portfolio without nuclear power, or one that includes nuclear energy.And so, in this case, the question ‘is nuclear energy renewable?’ may be less important than ‘can nuclear power help us tackle the climate crisis?’.

You might decide against nuclear power because you believe that all our future energy requirements can be met by renewables; that all the required assets can be delivered in time to decarbonise; and that the overall context and incentives are right for this to happen.And if they are not, you might still judge that the consequences for humanity are not as bad as the risks we would incur by using nuclear energy..Although some argue that it would be technically possible to meet all of our energy needs using renewable energy sources by 2050,.

4. it is much harder to argue that it is practically possible to achieve the necessary, aggressive decarbonising of emissions within the next decade.The only countries that have been able to achieve the required rate in carbon emission reductions are those that have been using nuclear power (see figure below).. 5.

Renewables require a lot more land, as well as the installation of additional distribution grid, which takes time and becomes increasingly more difficult and costly, as the obvious and easy places for these technologies have already been taken, and further away, more difficult land or sea locations are now the only option for development.. 6.

Whether an (almost) all-renewables portfolio could provide the required clean energy, and whether it is realisable quickly enough remains a matter of debate.In other words, at Circle Reading, there is the dual benefit of both a sense of community, as well as a sense of peacefulness.

Wendy Bonard-Williams says that her favourite area of the hospital is the glass walkway up on the second and third floor.‘It’s in a big figure eight,’ she says.

‘Hardly anyone goes down there and it’s just a complete glass wall so you can see out...see across to the hotel and things like that.’ She talks about the quietness of the space.‘You can literally go up there for five minutes and escape and you won’t see another person… So that’s quite nice,’ she says, laughing.’.