Medact consultation briefing
The climate crisis is the single biggest threat to public health. Medact has called for the UK to transition to a zero-carbon economy by 2030 as part of a bold Green New Deal but has no declared policy position on the extent to which nuclear energy should be part of a fossil free future.
This briefing aims to help our membership decide Medact’s position on civil nuclear power by:
- setting out the context including the climate crisis, current patterns of UK energy
production and use, and UK government plans for nuclear expansion - explaining key arguments for and against nuclear power as part of the UK energy mix
in the context of zero carbon targets - outlining three possible proposals for policy positions for Medact.
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