Prime Minister Gordon Brown has promised that a decision on whether Britain should build new nuclear power stations will be made early next year.
Eighteen of Britain's 23 nuclear reactors
will reach the end of their lives by 2015
Mr Brown told delegates at the Confederation of British Industry's annual conference in London yesterday that the time for public debate had finished. He said the controversial decision over Britain's nuclear future must be made to ensure security of energy supplies over the next decades.
