But seriously - we seem to be running out of alternatives fast.*
*Making the assumption we want to keep consuming in the way we currently do.
Well, instead of the (and I really mean 'our') government colluding with the nuclear industry to pump billions of our tax-quids into their slush funds, perhaps we could split that up and give, say, 95% grants for every household in the country for things like insulation, solar heating/solar cells (photovoltaics) and other localised power generation/energy efficiency moves; some education wouldn't go amiss either. Who knows, maybe we'd end up with a homegrown UK industry with a proven record of excellence in the field of renewables and bankrolled by the government, a bit like, for example, the forward looking Danes who're happily exploiting wind energy and have an industry to support it.
But that isn't going to happen. Energy production, together with banks(ie. money supply), seat of government and the media is one of the big four pillars of population control and having a dangerous, centralised form of energy generation such as nuclear is much more attractive to governments then liberating their population with diy schemes. Also, a government with a lot of fission plants has a cast-uranium excuse for increasing 'anti-terrorist' legislation in order to protect such 'vulnerable national assets' from all sorts of imagined and unimaginable dangers.
