I think they bought that. Don’t you? Mugs.
By Professor John Robertson
Again, thanks to AR for alerting me to this:
From Bloomberg, yesterday:
French Power Slumps as Surging Renewables Push Out Atomic Plants. Day-ahead prices turn negative, trading at a four-year low. EDF halts three reactors, plans to take three more offline. French electricity prices turned negative as a drop in demand and surging renewables output prompted some nuclear reactors to power down.
Who are EDF? Électricité de France, state-owned.
What is their role in the UK:
EDF manages the UK’s eight nuclear power station sites, five that are generating (Sizewell B, Torness, Heysham 2, Heysham 1, Hartlepool) and three that are defueling (Hunterston B, Hinkley Point B and Dungeness B) and is issuing its annual fleet update on 9 January 2024. We are building two new nuclear reactors at Hinkley Point C in Somerset, the first in a new generation of nuclear power stations in the UK.
Looks like building new nuclear power stations is not such a good idea.
Who still believes in it?
The Scottish Government’s attitude towards nuclear power has been condemned as “short-sighted” and “unambitious” by Anas Sarwar during a visit to Wick. Labour’s Scottish leader insisted nuclear energy had to be seen as part of the mix and said his party is supportive of it.
Sources:
Talking-up Scotland / Facts on NHS, Crime, ferries and everything else you can think of 
Thatcherite Labour want to be ‘business-friendly’ and since building and managing nuclear power stations at public expense generates profits. And senior managers can earn large bonuses – uncapped, of course, unlike child benefit. ‘Scottish’ Labour does what it is tellt as a patriotic two Union jacks BRITISH party. So, even though Scotland is self sufficient and has surplus energy which is exported to England, and even though the Scottish people do not want nuclear power or indeed nuclear weapons, we are getting them because the thuggish GMB Union management want them.
Alasdair Macdonald
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Hinkley Point years over budget. £Billions.
Westminster spending £13Billion a year on decommissioning nuclear, over ten years £130Billion. Increasing all the time.
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Scottish Labour will do as they are told.
If Starmer said we have the wrong type of wind and therefore needed the Great British Reactor to keep the lights on, then that would be the “Scottish Labour” mantra.
Obviously, we could then store the Great British Nuclear Waste as part of the Union dividend.
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Interesting point Stephen,
In 1976 a group of nuclear scientists at Oxford were deciding the best locations to store Nuclear waste. A few areas were considered, even some in England, but the area they finally decided on was ” Deep within Granite rock far from areas of human population. The ideal site is Sutherland”. Apparently the populations of Wick, Thurso etc are not ‘Human’ enough to matter.
Also let’s consider the time scales involved. The 2 fuels used for Nuclear energy production are Uranium 235 and Uranium 238.
Uranium 235 has a half life of 700 million years. That’s the time it takes to reduce in Radioactivity by 50%.
The most common Fuel used is Uranium 238. It has a half life of 4.5 BILLION years.
The whole of of the Highlands would be a waste land and no go area for the remainder of time.
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Looking at the front page of the Sunday Herald today I would say the answer to your question is NO. They seem to betrying to say the FM’s stance on this is anti-science, anti-experts. At least that is the impression given by the headline. Not read the article yet.
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