Nuclear Power Stations - 16th December 2010

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Nuclear Power Stations.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2010-12-16/debates/10121650000033/NuclearPowerStations

11:16 Barry Gardiner (Labour)

Achieving 16 GW of supply from nuclear, as the Secretary of State has demanded, would require one new reactor coming on stream every nine months from about 2018 onwards. The industry told the Select Committee on Energy and Climate Change the other day that that simply would not happen because there was neither the investment capacity in the City to deliver it nor, indeed, the skills available to build what is required. How will he ensure the continuity of supply that he seeks?

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