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Originally Posted by pip08456
Although I hate to agree with the French, this is sound policy IMHO. We should be doing the same.
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We’re in no position to go big for nuclear now. We dithered for too long and we lost the expertise. The ones now in the planning/building are dependent on foreign expertise and investment and are costing us an arm and a leg as a result.
Rolls Royce is working on a new modular mini-reactor system that will be easier to deploy on sites in the UK (I say UK, but at present only the UK government has the backbone to stand up against the eco-loons which means it is effectively England - the devolved administrations in Wales and Scotland don’t control energy policy but they do have the power to call in planning requests, and have threatened to do so for any proposed new nuclear).
The waste products of nuclear fission are problematic so while it’s better than dumping CO2 in the atmosphere it’s less responsible than generating cleaner electricity from wind, tides or solar. It has a role to play in base load, at least until we crack energy storage. I suspect we won’t crack large-scale energy storage before the present generation of gas fired power stations become life-expired.