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2023-03-18 Britain

U.K. ... declares nuclear "environmentally sustainable"

[HotAir] Wowsers. What a difference a cold, dark, expensive winter makes.

HUGE!

Chancellor Hunt unveiling Great British Nuclear during his spring budget statement now: Officially announcing funding of Sizewell C, classification of #nuclear as green in the UK, targeting 25% nuclear for the UK Grid & a new SMR competition w/ gvmt funding! #uranium
— Art Hyde (@JekyllCapital) March 15, 2023

In the culmination of an effort and advocacy begun by former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, U.K. chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced yesterday that nuclear energy was being reclassified as “environmentally sustainable” in Britain. That’s not just semantics, It opens nuclear up to all the financing, incentives and opportunities available to any of the so-called Green/renewable energy strategies they’ve been pursuing for the past decade or so. It’s basically the government’s official blessing to go forth and try to multiply.

In a bald statement of fact that has to be galling to the rabid renewable faction so invested in making their fellow Brits’ lives miserable, Hunt laid out the plain truth – the U.K. must have something reliable to back up all the condition-dependent renewable energy sources. “Condition” meaning something must blow or shine before any power is generated.

They’ve found out repeatedly this winter that is a truism. And it’s not only the weather that takes renewables out (as I’ve posted on before) – their reliability and maintenance issues, especially for wind, are hardly up to par for the bazillions being spent and the lives dependent upon the technology. You can’t keep lugging diesel generators to the highlands to try to keep them warm, or ferrying turbines back and forth from ocean wind farms that haven’t even become operational yet, and are already breaking down.

The country needs something humming along in the background. Unfortunately, they came to that realization a little late in the renewables game after self-righteously planning on shuttering everything.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2023-03-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 Minnesota nuclear power plant leaked 400,000 GALLONS of radioactive water in November... and only now reveals it to the public

Posted by Skidmark 2023-03-18 00:35|| 2023-03-18 00:35|| Front Page Top

#2 You can’t keep lugging diesel generators to the highlands

Federal government ships 3 mega generators to Puerto Rico

Posted by Skidmark 2023-03-18 07:20|| 2023-03-18 07:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Sanity

Posted by Super Hose 2023-03-18 11:18|| 2023-03-18 11:18|| Front Page Top

#4 That isn't sanity. That is creating a crises to present themselves as the cure. It's malevolent.

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-03-18 11:35|| 2023-03-18 11:35|| Front Page Top

#5 And now they have the prices all jacked up, want to produce energy more efficiently, and will jack up the prices more because 'Green'.

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-03-18 11:36|| 2023-03-18 11:36|| Front Page Top

#6 "Those are our nuclear power plants now."

Posted by illiterate rites activist 2023-03-18 22:17|| 2023-03-18 22:17|| Front Page Top

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