Questions remain over the UK’s nuclear power plans
by Paul Brown from Environment | The Guardian on (#5RDCX)
No other country taking part in Cop26 is relying on multiple new reactors to get to net zero by 2050
In 2007, Vincent de Rivaz, the then EDF chief executive, said Britain would be cooking our Christmas turkeys" with electricity from Hinkley Point C nuclear station by 2017. Instead the first concrete was poured that year and the turkey is now scheduled for late 2026.
In the race against time to avert dangerous global heating, the UK government has decided to back an untried reactor from Rolls Royce. The first of these could be plugged into the grid by 2031", according to Nuclear Industry Association.
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