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“We have the expertise, the supply chains and the teams ready to buildHinkley Point C safely, on time and on budget,” Vincent de Rivaz, thenchief executive of EDF, said in 2016 as the project to build the UK’sfirst nuclear power station since the 1990s got under way. That confidence has proven misplaced. Earlier this week,…
In west Somerset broadband is patchy and childcare is scarce, but there’s always £10bn to spare for a badly run mega-project WILLIAM SITWELL, In west Somerset broadband is patchy and childcare is scarce,but there's always £10bn to spare for a badly run mega-project. Some 10,000 people work on site there (with another 12,000 associated jobs…
COMMENT. This is a fine article about Lise Meitner's achievements. But the author attributes the neglect of Meitner to the fact that she was Jewish. I don't think it had anything to do with anti-semitism. THIS WAS MEITNER's CRIME: when Meitner was invited to work on the Manhattan Project, she responded, “I will have nothing to do…
The Stop Hinkley Campaign has reacted to the news that the cost of HinkleyPoint C has ballooned to £46bn and that the first reactor may not now beopen until 2031. Stop Hinkley Spokesperson Roy Pumfrey said: “TheGovernment will have known for days if not weeks that this announcement wascoming – we certainly heard rumours. You…
Dominic Cummings said amongst other things the MoD has: continued to allowcritical parts of the nuclear weapons infrastructure to rot creatingfurther massive secret budget nightmares as well as extremely seriousphysical dangers (cf. the recent near disaster with a submarine), UK Parliament 24th Jan 2024 https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2024-01-24/debates/1F1CF40C-91E6-4C9B-A9BB-32A7EB43DAC4/NuclearDefenceInfrastructureParliamentaryScrutiny