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Sizewell C power station to be built as part of UK’s £14bn nuclear investment
(www.theguardian.com)
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And yet Hinkley C was approved in 2010 and is still not finished, current cost is at 3 times the orginal budget and ETA is now 2030 from originally 2023 (and may slip further).
What's worse is they contract in a fixed price for the power generated which is way higher than renewables can generate it for. So we're paying more for our electricity.
Also consider how much renewables that investment could buy; its not just 31billon of today money that will start to see some benefit 20 years after it was started.