US/UK reactor plans - Greenpeace response

In response to the government announcing plans for American modular reactors in various sites around the UK, Dr Douglas Parr, Chief Scientist for Greenpeace UK, said: 

“While the US blocks the effective, clean technologies that are successfully cutting carbon emissions around the world, they are pushing projects that will actively obstruct tackling climate change. If these proposals for new reactors scattered around Britain really materialise, the net effect will be higher bills from nuclear's relentlessly spiralling costs, and more CO2 as we wait for the builders to overcome their inevitable construction delays. Anyone curious about which technologies are actually going to replace fossil fuels can find the answer by looking for the technologies the fossil fuel industry spends its money lobbying against. It does not lobby against nuclear.

“Britain is a world leader in offshore wind, battery technology and other genuinely clean, affordable tech - we should be focusing there rather than slow, costly reactors which produce waste we still have no plan to handle after 60 years of trying. There is no evidence that small modular reactors have changed any of that.”