Guardian: A nuclear energy-free future for the UK is not something the coalition "is thinking seriously about", the government's chief science adviser said on Tuesday at the launch of the country's long-term nuclear strategy.
The government said its nuclear strategy would help seize the economic opportunities of a 1 trillion global market and provide 40,000 UK jobs.
Prof Sir John Beddington, the government's chief scientific adviser, said new nuclear power was essential: "We really can't see a future...