Nuclear power is the thing. A big thing. A powerful thing. Unquestionably the thing of the future. Coal runs out and makes a mess. Gas runs out, eventually, and is carbon-unfriendly. The sun don’t shine enough to be viable and windfarms are all well and good but simply don’t produce sufficient power for half time during the the FA cup final when 26 million kettles get turned on simultaneously.

The best way to conserve electricity is to stop people filling up their cars with the stuff. Its a waste. All those hybrids getting plugged in to avoid paying the congestion charge takes power away from all those machines in hospitals the keep people alive!!! (Its very ‘of the moment’ to indicate any benefit against its impact to the NHS or health. OMG!!! people think, if I charge my stupid Renault Leaf someone in St Thomas’s loses his respirator!!! I’m going out to buy a new car that runs on… petrol, which won’t be murdering sick patients).

So we’ll go nuclear. The good things: its relatively cheap; a few pounds of radioactive stuff will last for 37 million years. The sun is a nuclear power plant and that hasn’t run out yet. Its clean; you’re not burning anything. Its very efficient, if done properly.

Bad things: people are inherently scared of anything involving the words ‘nuclear’ or ‘radioactive’, with pretty good reason. ‘Accidents’ on a nuclear scale tend to be a bit more catastrophic than in conventional power plants. Like the destruction of 150 square miles of neighbouring everything plus the added bonus of nuclear fallout. Chernobyl, Sellafield, hmmmm… And its rather costly to set up a nuclear plant. Particularly if the French are involved.

So Hinckley Point. Our ‘nuclear plant of the future!’ As it was hailed 9 years ago when the plan was conceived. Nine fucking years of French bureaucracy-bollocks waiting for an offer so financially punitive for us (but only for the first TEN YEARS) that it will be probably cheaper and more efficient just to burn migrants for our power. I’m just sayin’.

Furthermore, the technology for Hinckley is completely untested anywhere in the world. You really wouldn’t wanna be in that part of England for the ‘snagging’ process.

There is new nuclear technology used in Japan that is neater, safer, more proven. Didn’t exist when Hinckley started. So why use something immediately outdated? And if getting ‘into bed’ with the French isn’t bad enough (and it really is bad enough all by itself) then why not add the Chinese into the mix too? Let them take a third share and grab what little financial opportunities may present themselves in decades to come.

The plan is flawed. The French are even more flawed. Theresa May is right to bale us out. I hope.

Happy saturday

A xxxx