Your business leader misses the bigger picture, as indeed do other supporters of renewable energy, such as Greenpeace (“Moorside’s atomic dream was an illusion. After that the energy required to extract fissile material from low-quality ore will exceed the energy produced, at which point the technology becomes unsustainable. The only way to rationalise the UK’s chaotic energy policy is to accept that the nuclear and fracking industries have better lobbyists than the renewable sector. Dr Robin Russell-Jones, chair, Help Rescue the PlanetMarlow, BuckinghamshireYour business leader identified the key problem in the building of new nuclear power stations – that the government meant it to be funded by the private sector. The idea that nuclear power stations can be built in the UK by the Chinese and French governments but not our own is nonsensical.

Source: The Guardian November 18, 2018 06:00 UTC