Your leader column claims that the "nuclear renaissance" does not make sense on financial grounds (Nuclear power: A bung by any other name, 19 October). However, there is a growing collation of support among the public, politicians of the main parties, industry, scientists and regulators, who recognise nuclear is needed as part of the answer to keep the lights on and tackle climate change.This was demonstrated in the last two weeks alone by reports from organisations as diverse as the Committee on Climate Change, Ofgem and the CBI. Among this coalition there is recognition that new nuclear can play its part without subsidy from taxpayers.As a company looking to develop four new reactors in the UK, we have never sought subsidies. Our plans for this much-needed investment are viable without a penny of taxpayers' money.
Your leader column claims that the "nuclear renaissance" does not make sense on financial grounds (Nuclear power: A bung by any other name, 19 October). However, there is a growing collation of support among the public, politicians of the main parties, industry, scientists and regulators, who recognise nuclear is needed as part of the answer to keep the lights on and tackle climate change.
This was demonstrated in the last two weeks alone by reports from organisations as diverse as the Committee on Climate Change, Ofgem and the CBI. Among this coalition there is recognition that new nuclear can play its part without subsidy from taxpayers.
As a company looking to develop four new reactors in the UK, we have never sought subsidies. Our plans for this much-needed investment are viable without a penny of taxpayers' money.
Give or take a battleship or two...or twelve...or maybe, a deposed democracy here or there.
"...and the coal industry even cheaper power for several centuries."
Give or take slavery in the coal mines (did it officially end before 1900 in Scotland, of after?) and the deaths and destruction that it causes consequential to its use.
But yeah, greater than nukes on the list of horrible solutions, badly implemented. Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.
Frank Delaney ~ Ireland
Did that DCP (delivered cheap power) include the costs of delivered-drums-of-nuclear-waste-to-Siberia-to-eventually-be-refined-but-until-then-just-left-on-a-r ailway-siding-or-in-this-open-unguarded-field?
Snark aside, EDF, or the French establishment and mentality mostly got it right. But nukes are a problem, and they will be bigger problems as water for cooling becomes more scarce, and the reality of 'future solutions to mitigate the waste' gets pushed back further and further.
Further, as time goes on, we constantly see that people will break even the most iron-clad policies and make the entire group suffer. Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.
As i sniffle at my desk, i'm glad i'm not out there.
remember, this is video, so the images change from this post. But it sure looks sunny and sweet. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
