• Flyberius [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    5 months ago

    They will never get built.

    If they get built they will cost 10x what a reactor should.

    Regardless, a bunch of consultation firms will get tens to hundreds of millions of UK taxpayer money.

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      5 months ago

      I mean, it’s the UK. If we could get anything done that only cost 9x what it ought to that would be a national news story.

    • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 months ago

      Huh. I wonder if all of the verbatim identical pro-nuclear posts I see on every social media platform that all read like they were copied and pasted from the same template are astroturfing by the nuclear consultation firms.

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        5 months ago

        Huh. I wonder if all of the verbatim identical anti-nuclear posts I see on every social media platform that all read like they were copied and pasted from the same template are astroturfing by the natural gas firms.