Oh *christ* just check if they’re safe (hint, they are) then stump up the cash already.
They cost about £2bn each, that’s four days worth of NHS budget. Build 20, starting next week, and we’ll be free from fossil fuels in a few years.
I watched Chernobyl on HBO and became an expert on nuclear power plants; this expansion should be opposed .
I wonder how quickly we could get these up and running if we really really wanted to do it quickly. China built a hospital in a couple of days and we built several in a couple of weeks.
There’s a nuclear power plant that can be built (approval to operational) within 18 months. The Rolls-Royce reactors are factory built and then assembled on site. Should be possible to go even quicker. Should be a national priority. Once we are no longer dependent on Russian oil and gas, we can focus on replacing old nuclear with renewables at our leisure.
This is a regulatory nightmare.
There is a reason why no private company has ever been able to market nuclear power without massive state subsidies.
The same week it comes out we will be paying 20bn to clean up the waste from the last generation of “clean” reactors…
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Oh *christ* just check if they’re safe (hint, they are) then stump up the cash already.
They cost about £2bn each, that’s four days worth of NHS budget. Build 20, starting next week, and we’ll be free from fossil fuels in a few years.
I watched Chernobyl on HBO and became an expert on nuclear power plants; this expansion should be opposed .
I wonder how quickly we could get these up and running if we really really wanted to do it quickly. China built a hospital in a couple of days and we built several in a couple of weeks.
There’s a nuclear power plant that can be built (approval to operational) within 18 months. The Rolls-Royce reactors are factory built and then assembled on site. Should be possible to go even quicker. Should be a national priority. Once we are no longer dependent on Russian oil and gas, we can focus on replacing old nuclear with renewables at our leisure.
This is a regulatory nightmare.
There is a reason why no private company has ever been able to market nuclear power without massive state subsidies.
The same week it comes out we will be paying 20bn to clean up the waste from the last generation of “clean” reactors…