BBCNEWS BBC News at Ten June 4, 2024 21:17:00
This is construction on a truly breathtaking scale, and that's the problem for some. to its detractors, it's big, it's slow, it can be risky, and at £20 billion plus a pop it's incredibly expensive. but for the government, big nuclear is an always—on, low—carbon, truly domestic, non—imported form of energy, and that's security for the future. offshore wind power has already transformed the uk energy mix and the government aims to quadruple output by the end of the decade. it also wants to revive onshore wind, despite objections from many of its own mps, by offering discounts to those wh...