Tbf Will that is technically true but the share is falling. 8 NPS on paper at decade start and all but 1 closes by Q2 '30 on present planning. HPC opens 30 base 31+ if late. HPC/SZB/SZC (late 30s) would still amount to less capacity than in the 2010s.
That’s fair, but to equate the situation in the UK to Germany is very off. Germany shut off nukes for political reasons while the UK is keeping its plants as long as they can.
UK has struggled to build new plants, but not because politicians are ideologically opposed. Just opposed to paying maybe
Ger very diff; high degree of political consensus in GB (except perhaps 97-2003 & 2010-15) but building not so much. Lab didn't get anything close to FID in 13yrs; C's 1 but that pretty much tested the CFD to destruction and now we're about to test RAB 😉
If UK is building more nuclear power plants then this is really great. Because I thought that brits are going the same wrong (go green!) way as Germans do.
Germany and the UK are completely different. The UK is currently building one large new nuclear plant, raising money to build another and extending the life of its existing plants. Nuclear is broadly popular in Britain with politicians and the public
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UK has struggled to build new plants, but not because politicians are ideologically opposed. Just opposed to paying maybe