There is always a time to cut your losses and this issue contrasts well with HS2. That project, as poorly set up as it was and consequently far more expensive than it should have been, had a real benefit to its completion. The argument for nuclear power these days is much less about the waste (and to my mind far more important - the decommissioning costs) and more about the ability to provide carbon-free base load and cost of production. The arguments for nuclear clearly fail on the latter and are increasingly redundant on the former. It's not that nuclear power is no longer needed but the combination of old technology and ridiculous timescales clearly point to this being the wrong contract to pursue. My worry is that all governments are too concerned with the 'optics' and so often unwilling to make the case for necessary - if painful - decisions.
It’s a mad mad, mad mad world
Nuclear power has never made financial sense.
It started as a way to get the materials to make a bomb, and now it's a grift.
I'm astonished that anyone rich enough to afford it would be so stupid as to succumb to that sort of thing - but then I see the AI thing... https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/
There is always a time to cut your losses and this issue contrasts well with HS2. That project, as poorly set up as it was and consequently far more expensive than it should have been, had a real benefit to its completion. The argument for nuclear power these days is much less about the waste (and to my mind far more important - the decommissioning costs) and more about the ability to provide carbon-free base load and cost of production. The arguments for nuclear clearly fail on the latter and are increasingly redundant on the former. It's not that nuclear power is no longer needed but the combination of old technology and ridiculous timescales clearly point to this being the wrong contract to pursue. My worry is that all governments are too concerned with the 'optics' and so often unwilling to make the case for necessary - if painful - decisions.