Antinuclear

Death knell for British nuclear industry, as another new build plan collapses

Climate News Network 21st Jan 2019 , Once hailed as a key part of the energy future of the United Kingdom and several other countries, the high-tech atomic industry is now heading in the opposite direction, towards nuclear sunset. It took another body blow last week when plans to build four new reactors on two sites in the UK were abandoned as too costly by the Japanese company Hitachi. This was even though it had already sunk £2.14 billion (300 bn yen) in the scheme.

Following the decision in November by another Japanese giant, Toshiba, to abandon an equally ambitious scheme to build three reactors at Moorside in the north-west of England, the future of the industry in the UK looks bleak. The latest withdrawal means the end of the Japanese dream of keeping its nuclear industry alive by exporting its technology overseas. With thedomestic market killed by the Fukushima disaster in 2011, overseas sales were to have been its salvation.
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January 24, 2019 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | General News