Britain Must Build Nuclear Power Plants

Britain is one of the most expensive countries in Europe for energy, this not only makes life more expensive for you but it also crushes our economy. In 1956, Britain built the world’s first commercial nuclear power plant in 3 years at a cost of £725m in today’s money. Hinkley Point C, Britain’s latest nuclear power plant under construction was announced in 2010, its cost has ballooned to an estimated £46bn and numerous delays mean it won’t be complete until 2031. We are going backwards, in 1990, a quarter of our energy was provided through nuclear, today it is less than 15% and only falling. Our political class have allowed this to happen, with the recent announcement that Rolls Royce are scaling back their plans to build nuclear factories in Britain due to delays in a design competition that was first announced almost a decade ago, this failure to build will continue. If Britain is to have a prosperous future we must have a cheap, abundant energy supply. The rapid progress of AI makes this a necessity, Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook said that in the near future a single nuclear power plant would be needed to train a new AI model. Energy constraints make Britain poorer. Failing to build nuclear power destines Britain to a darker future, figuratively and literally.