Special report: 'The future will not be nuclear' by Tom Burke | Prospect Magazine September 2008 issue 150

Worth a read; (hit the title bar above) It gives the reason nuclear power will not succeed. It puts flesh on my instinctive view that they will start building a new generation of nukes, but that the building programme will stall, and the half-built hulks will be passed on to our successors as a monument to nuclear folly.