Our advice in respect of "The Future of Nuclear Power" consultations is attached to this letter. We make three main recommendations:

Energy production and consumption within the united kingdom has global environmental impacts.  Government policy on reducing the UK's global environmental footprint should be taken into account when considering nuclear new-build.

All of the sustainable development principles (as enuciated in the UK Sustainable Development Strategy) should be considered as part of the nuclear new-build programme, not merely the limited areas of carbon emissions, and security of supply.  In particular, we strongly caution against considering low carbon technologies to be necessarily sustainable per se.