Sorry to go off topic… 
But it takes over ten years to build a nuclear power plant Annie, how does that stack up against drilling for oil and gas?
Wouldn’t it have been better to decommission the old coal burning stations once the nuclear plants were up and running?
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Those took 130 months. The UK is building Hinkley Point C – two reactors that started construction in 2018 and 2019. Their projected timeline is to be online in 2027 and 2028, respectively (which is several years later than originally planned).
both could take ages and cost a lot of money. They were talking about smaller nuclear modules instead of one big one. The SMRs LD mentioned. But it doesn’t look as though they are going anywhere soon. I think it’s down to a lack of money, skills and energy (groan)
https://committees.parliament.uk/work/7965/small-modular-reactors-in-the-transition-from-fossil-fuels/news/199872/eac-raises-concerns-that-the-governments-direction-on-nuclear-smrs-needs-clarity/
Successive Governments have known for decades about energy insecurity, particularly with the decommissioning of nuclear plants at their end of life. They kick it down the road for the next government. Apparently we have only 14 more years of Nth sea gas at current consumption levels. That’s the other reason we need nuclear. Fossil fuel volumes used to power nuclear are miniscule vs the energy generated by nuclear itself.
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but check how many are being decommissioned around the same time.
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This was how your power was generated at 10:00am this morning Annie.
The 10% bio mass is Drax, the orange are combined cycle gas turbines, and from France down, we are buying it from various other countries…
From a 2022 report - years of kicking the can down the road
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