Seems fairly logical – but I am sure there will still be some strong opposition.
It could have been online by now if the Tories hadn’t faffed around and tried to get China to build it before backtracking
It’s going to cost us billions – we’ve committed to paying the operators £92 per MWh for the lifetime of the plant, while other generators are happy to sell at £36.
The only consolation is that it will take 15 years to get it built – so I won’t be paying for it. It’ll be the folk currently under 50 that get hit with the bill.
Let’s get nuclear!
So this is going to cost £40billion and won’t be completed until 2050… What happened to that plan of of the micro nuclear generators they were going to stick everywhere in the mean time?
We need to get 9 more approved of an identical design, with construction to start on the additional 9 concurrently with each other and a year behind Sizewell C (so we benefit from any learning opportunities for all sites).
10 plants the size of Sizewell C would completely eradiacate fossil fuels from the UK grid.
It should also be funded directly by the UK government and not EDF.
One costs £20bn, ten will cost <£200bn – that’s only about 2 years state pension payments to be energy independent, net zero and have a stable future energy supply.
This is excellent news. People need to appreciate local environmental damage needs to be done to stave off something worse. Its all very good saying its next to a nature reserve but without these relatively clean forms of energy that nature reserve won’t exist before the century is out due to climate change.
Did they solve the financing framework? Last time I checked they were looking at a regulated asset base model as a way of ensuring funding.
Unfortunately the Green Party are against this and multiple similar organisations also openly hate science so will be protesting and complaining about this when it is clearly not bad news asides the slow time to build.
I’m generally very pro-nuclear, but I decided to read some of the protesters’ complaints and while some are bunk (it’s slow to build? Yes that’s a further reason we should do it NOW not later) it does seem to be surrounding some really important wildlife sites – is this a worry?
Taken WAY too long to get to this point and they’re still going to fuck about with local planning applications where grey-haired Tory voting NIMBYs who can’t even do basic Google research will complain it is “dangerous” and drag this shit out over years more.
Just start building, tomorrow. We can do it, we need to do it. If the last few days have taught us anything it is to act NOW and not waste time.
At least 10 years too late.
If only the tories hadn’t fucked around for a decade trying to get the Chinese to pay for it in the most obvious national security risk going.
The whole thing is a farce. Should have been running years ago and we could be in the same position as France, a clean energy exporter.
Even now, the French are funding 80% of this plan… Madness, we won’t even bloody own it or earn much off of it.
Absolutely solid choice. Nuclear is desperately needed to ward off the worst of climate change, and to distance ourselves from these despotic regimes in Russia and the Middle East The NIMBY’s will ensure that it costs 5 times as much and 5 times as long to get built as though. However, the point pf nuclear would be to provide a large amount of cheap electricity, saving bills for millions, by hocking out to a French firm i guess EDF will be able to charge what they like? IE a huge premium.
I wish we’d put more research into Thorium though, I think there’s potential there.
Why conserve energy when you can make a bigger killing generating more?
A rare good decision.
>Negotiations with the government on raising funds for the project are continuing and a a decision on the finances is expected in 2023.
How about we just simply fully fund and own the plant? Then pay someone(same company, why not) to just operate it. Then sell the energy at cost. We seem to fund a big chunk of stuff like this anyway only to get almost no ownership.
Like clearly the government can spend a big chunk of money like that if they want. They accepted HS2 costing £100bn and cancelled it once it started to climb. £100bn is the cost of 5 of these and apparently could cover 40% of our electricity needs. I’d take that deal and would think its a great use of our tax money. With 40% of our electricity coming from publicly owned nuclear plants selling energy at cost we’d have none of this massive price fluctuations that we have now.
Doesn’t have to be nuclear. Maybe pay for 3 of these then the other £40bn on as much solar and wind as we can get for that amount.
Finally, a good decision.
I’d listen to the strong opposition if they offered any real alternative to the UKs energy crisis
Wait a minute… I didn’t think good news was allowed on this sub???
Good. More nuclear power stations is our best option currently for clean energy.
8 years to build excluding the panning phase. When was the probable 2c deadline..? 2030.
The Government’s 20% stake seems low? Who owns the rest of it?
Good start. 10 more plz.
Good, we should have done this 20 years ago but better late than never. But we need the political power to make a long term nuclear waste repository if we’re going deeper on nuclear.
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I mean, we need it anyway, but now we need it even more.
I’d rather live in a world that has tiny parts of it uninhabitable due to nuclear waste, over climate change that could end human existence in its entirety.
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Finally, some action on climate change.
Seems fairly logical – but I am sure there will still be some strong opposition.
It could have been online by now if the Tories hadn’t faffed around and tried to get China to build it before backtracking
It’s going to cost us billions – we’ve committed to paying the operators £92 per MWh for the lifetime of the plant, while other generators are happy to sell at £36.
The only consolation is that it will take 15 years to get it built – so I won’t be paying for it. It’ll be the folk currently under 50 that get hit with the bill.
Let’s get nuclear!
So this is going to cost £40billion and won’t be completed until 2050… What happened to that plan of of the micro nuclear generators they were going to stick everywhere in the mean time?
We need to get 9 more approved of an identical design, with construction to start on the additional 9 concurrently with each other and a year behind Sizewell C (so we benefit from any learning opportunities for all sites).
10 plants the size of Sizewell C would completely eradiacate fossil fuels from the UK grid.
It should also be funded directly by the UK government and not EDF.
One costs £20bn, ten will cost <£200bn – that’s only about 2 years state pension payments to be energy independent, net zero and have a stable future energy supply.
This is excellent news. People need to appreciate local environmental damage needs to be done to stave off something worse. Its all very good saying its next to a nature reserve but without these relatively clean forms of energy that nature reserve won’t exist before the century is out due to climate change.
Did they solve the financing framework? Last time I checked they were looking at a regulated asset base model as a way of ensuring funding.
Unfortunately the Green Party are against this and multiple similar organisations also openly hate science so will be protesting and complaining about this when it is clearly not bad news asides the slow time to build.
I’m generally very pro-nuclear, but I decided to read some of the protesters’ complaints and while some are bunk (it’s slow to build? Yes that’s a further reason we should do it NOW not later) it does seem to be surrounding some really important wildlife sites – is this a worry?
Taken WAY too long to get to this point and they’re still going to fuck about with local planning applications where grey-haired Tory voting NIMBYs who can’t even do basic Google research will complain it is “dangerous” and drag this shit out over years more.
Just start building, tomorrow. We can do it, we need to do it. If the last few days have taught us anything it is to act NOW and not waste time.
At least 10 years too late.
If only the tories hadn’t fucked around for a decade trying to get the Chinese to pay for it in the most obvious national security risk going.
The whole thing is a farce. Should have been running years ago and we could be in the same position as France, a clean energy exporter.
Even now, the French are funding 80% of this plan… Madness, we won’t even bloody own it or earn much off of it.
Absolutely solid choice. Nuclear is desperately needed to ward off the worst of climate change, and to distance ourselves from these despotic regimes in Russia and the Middle East The NIMBY’s will ensure that it costs 5 times as much and 5 times as long to get built as though. However, the point pf nuclear would be to provide a large amount of cheap electricity, saving bills for millions, by hocking out to a French firm i guess EDF will be able to charge what they like? IE a huge premium.
I wish we’d put more research into Thorium though, I think there’s potential there.
Why conserve energy when you can make a bigger killing generating more?
A rare good decision.
>Negotiations with the government on raising funds for the project are continuing and a a decision on the finances is expected in 2023.
How about we just simply fully fund and own the plant? Then pay someone(same company, why not) to just operate it. Then sell the energy at cost. We seem to fund a big chunk of stuff like this anyway only to get almost no ownership.
Like clearly the government can spend a big chunk of money like that if they want. They accepted HS2 costing £100bn and cancelled it once it started to climb. £100bn is the cost of 5 of these and apparently could cover 40% of our electricity needs. I’d take that deal and would think its a great use of our tax money. With 40% of our electricity coming from publicly owned nuclear plants selling energy at cost we’d have none of this massive price fluctuations that we have now.
Doesn’t have to be nuclear. Maybe pay for 3 of these then the other £40bn on as much solar and wind as we can get for that amount.
Finally, a good decision.
I’d listen to the strong opposition if they offered any real alternative to the UKs energy crisis
Wait a minute… I didn’t think good news was allowed on this sub???
Good. More nuclear power stations is our best option currently for clean energy.
8 years to build excluding the panning phase. When was the probable 2c deadline..? 2030.
The Government’s 20% stake seems low? Who owns the rest of it?
Good start. 10 more plz.
Good, we should have done this 20 years ago but better late than never. But we need the political power to make a long term nuclear waste repository if we’re going deeper on nuclear.
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I mean, we need it anyway, but now we need it even more.
I’d rather live in a world that has tiny parts of it uninhabitable due to nuclear waste, over climate change that could end human existence in its entirety.