Necessity is the mother of energy policy reinvention, and safe, reliable and affordable nuclear is at the heart of it.
In Britain, thanks to its obsession with heavily subsidised and chaotically intermittent wind and solar, power prices are already at astronomical levels. Its political betters are ruing the day they determined to trash their coal-fired power fleet and snub nuclear, altogether.
It wasn’t always thus. Indeed, in 2005, then Labour PM, Tony Blair mocked his Conservative opponent, David Cameron about the need to maintain Britain’s existing nuclear fleet and to build more of the same.
As Judith Sloan details below, power-starved Brits would not be in the disastrous predicament they’re in now, had Blair’s prescient advice been put into action, back then.
A lesson as UK struggles to keep the lights on
The Australian
Judith Sloan
6 September 2022
It was British prime minister Tony Blair who suggested to opposition…
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