Breaking! First Pictures of UK's Hinkley C Nuclear Power Station

[kristopher]

Why October 21 will become known as International Embarrassment Day
http://safeenergy.org/2015/10/22/why-october-21-will-become-known/#more-13573

[LiberalArkie]

1. We have to get the Chinese to build reactors over here. We can't let the Brits beat us.

This might come down to one of those "It seemed like a good idea at the time" situations.

[kristopher]

2. Might?

The entire effort has been a clusterf*%k for the drive to eliminate carbon.

There was a lot of fanfare by the "We must have nuclear to deal with climate change" folk when a couple of prominent environmental writers get behind the nuclear program in the UK. They were warned what would happen and they dismissed the warnings with delusional responses about people being afraid of radiation. I say delusional because the arguments presented to them were based on easy-to-anticipate outcomes that dividing the climate response effort would have. As the Guardian article below detains, the damage has been done.

China deal means meltdown time for pro-nuclear 'greens'
Pro-nuclear environmentalists have finally admitted Hinkley C is a white elephant that must be scrapped, but with a Chinese deal now imminent the damage to the UK’s low-carbon future has already been done, argues Jonathon Porritt on the Ecologist

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/19/china-deal-means-meltdown-time-for-pro-nuclear-greens

[FBaggins]

3. Slip sliding away

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You know the nearer your destination
the more you're slip sliding away