GREEN groups have condemned the government’s decision to back the “astronomically expensive” Sizewell C nuclear plant.
Business Secretary Grant Shapps, who visited the site in Suffolk on Tuesday, has pledged to invest £700 million of public funding in the power plant, adding the site would generate 10,000 new jobs.
The plant is a joint endeavour with French energy giant EDF and is expected to take a decade to build at the cost of between £20-£30 billion.
In the fourth and final part of our serialisation from LINDA PENTZ GUNTER’S book No to Nuclear, she asks how anyone can see nuclear as value for money given its constantly ballooning costs
In the second of a four-part serialisation from her new book No to Nuclear, LINDA PENTZ GUNTER highlights how the industry is searching for ways to preserve its relevance
The Communist Party of Britain’s Congress last month debated a resolution on ending opposition to all nuclear power in light of technological advances and the climate crisis. RICHARD HEBBERT explains why



