Good article -if worrying- including this possibly telling insight: "tellingly, the RAE has also told the government that it must create a market for nuclear by ensuring the 'long-term stability of electricity prices'. This is shorthand for the nuclear industry's real agenda: a new system of subsidies to ensure it is never again exposed to the chill winds of a free market. The industry even has a name for it: the Security of Supply Obligation."
The thing that really annoys me about all of this is that the government is spending our tax money to prop up the nuke industry -in effect they are subsidising this 'cahrm offensive' by an industry that is determined to get us to cough up more tax to continue to bail out an inefficient and never-going-to-turn-out-a-real-profit industry which is leaving a legacy which we can't clean up ... it just seems immoral to me.
New Statesman - Ideas - The nuclear charm offensive:
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