Do we want/need another nuclear power station?

One that is to be built by a company that is 85% owned by the state - of another country.

Or should the money be invested in better/safer green energy, like wind farms and solar panels?

Hinkley Point nuclear station to be built in Somerset. On the coast. Part owned by France, part owned by China.
More info: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36897180

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We need the power station, but built by British firms.

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We need to scrap HS2, for that cash we could build three power stations. Building these vitally important public utilities on "tick", then allowing the constructors to make vast profits over two generations defies comprehension. Just another PFI project really, and look what all those are doing for schools and hospitals.
Completely inane.

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I believe that HS2 may well be shelved Barry, as May has stated that its being looked into.

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Hope so Nom, if there ever was a political vanity project than HS2 is it.

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The two plants EDF are building at the moment are years behind delivery and many times over budget, an independent french spokesman on radio 4 this morning expressed great concern at EDFs ability to deliver this project.

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Do they have any with experience building nuclear power stations? That might be the problem.

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The power supply industry can't win whatever it does. The anti-nuclear lobby say we should have wind power instead, and just when you think this makes sense up pops the anti-windpower lobby complaining that windfarms are unsightly and that the low background hum of the generators causes headaches.

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We need more nuclear power yes, it should be built by us but if we haven't the expertise to do it then others should but we should buy them from them before we start using them.

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Its all very well building new nuclear power stations but no-one seems to have had any thought to what to do with the 'waste'??? Sellafield is rapidly filling up with nuclear waste and can't take much more. So where else will the waste be stored??? There was huge debate about this during John Major's premiership when they were looking to store it in vast pits underground and both the geologists and the local residents protested against it because the ground was unstable.