Politicians routinely crabwalk away from policy disasters. So it is in Britain where ever-reliable nuclear power has just been declared ‘green’ and essential to Britain’s energy future.
Oversold and overhyped, in Europe, wind power now barely rates a mention amongst anyone serious about serious energy policy. Like that awkward, always-drunk uncle that everyone wants to avoid and forget.
What a difference ever-rocketing power prices and an increasingly chaotic and insufficient weather-driven supply makes to policies driven by ideology rather than engineering.
No longer able to avoid the unavoidable, Britain’s government is backing nuclear power like their entire economic future depends upon it. Which, incidentally, it very much does.
World Nuclear News has the news.
UK to class nuclear as environmentally sustainable
World Nuclear News
Press Release
15 March 2023
The UK’s Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced that nuclear will “subject to consultation, be classed as environmentally sustainable in our green…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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