Listening to NuGen CEO Tom Sansom’s evidence to the Energy & Climate Change Committee last week (23rd March), MP’s might have gone home thinking that all was going swimmingly-well with the consortium’s plans for new-build at Moorside. However – and leaving aside the myths he peddled to the parliamentarians about three reactors being on target for operation at Moorside by the mid 2020’s, and the Westinghouse AP1000 reactors being a ‘proven technology’ (no such reactor has yet been built let alone operated anywhere in the world) – things are not exactly hunky-dory for NuGen who, as Sansom was singing its praises at Westminster, were forced into writing a grovelling apology to some local West Cumbrian residents. How come?
CORE 28th March 2016 read more »