Plans for Sizewell C are doomed to “evaporate” in the wake of insurmountable problems that will prevent its intended forerunner at Hinkley Point ever producing electricity, one of Britain’s leading environmentalists has predicted. The Chinese and French-financed nuclear construction project on the Somerset coast “might get started” as Theresa May’s government tried to “save face” but the £18billion twin-reactor mega-project was destined to become mired in construction difficulties and delays. It would eventually be overtaken by burgeoning renewable energy technologies in which numerous important breakthroughs were being achieved, green heavyweight Sir Jonathon Porritt told a public meeting in Aldeburgh’s Jubilee Hall.
East Anglian Daily Times 23rd Oct 2016 read more »