We've gotta have our nukes

Apparently, and it doesn't matter how much it's gonna cost, or even if it makes any sense. The government is pressing ahead with its plans to build the most expensive nuclear power station ever built, anywhere, the work contracted out to the Chinese and French, with you and me footing the bill, all to have "energy security" that new phrase trotted out by George Osborne et al to justify this project (they use the same spurious argument with fracking). Oh, they say, what if the Russians and Norwegians decide to turn off the stopcock- we'll be screwed, right? Not really. Sure, the Ruskies might do it, though to think the Norwegians would deny themselves the billions and billions we pay them for their gas is a bit of a stretch. Oh, and while we're on the subject of energy security, no one is going to turn off the wind any time soon, or the sun come to that. But such is the missionary zeal of a government which in many ways is just as radical as Corbyn, for some reason  they don't want to encourage sustainable forms of energy production. What is it, do they think it's all a conspiracy by the leftie/hippie faction to take over the world? It doesn't sound likely, but there must be a reason why the government is anxious to pollute and endanger the world rather than nurture it, but I haven't worked it out yet.

They're not the only ones. Yesterday on The Today Programme a former spokesman for Greenpeace actually said that he used to be anti-nuclear, but now what with global warming he's pro. Sure, nukes don't add to carbon emissions (neither does solar power, though that didn't stop this stupid government slapping a carbon tax on it), but they don't represent value for money, and their risks remain the same now as they did in the days of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.

Wales is planning its own new nuke too, at Trawsfynydd on Anglesey. Not long ago the Japanese premier actually visited Wales and made a passionate plea for us to rethink. The Fukushima plant, he reminded us, was well protected against the possibility of a tsunami, but they never anticipated the unprecedented scale of the wave in 2011. His point being that it is impossible to fully protect such dangerous machines as nuclear power stations. Plus the fact that the waste from these plants remains dangerous for centuries, millennia in some cases. But that's a problem for our descendants, not us, right?

In summary, our current energy policy makes no sense to anyone outside a coterie inside the government and the vested interests who stand to make billions. Everyone else is going to suffer.