The U.K.’s last coal-fired power plant was to close permanently on Monday — bringing an end to 140 years of reliance on the fossil fuel to generate electricity in Britain. The move will make the U.K. the first major global economy to completely phase out coal as an energy source. The Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station, located...
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The undersea nuclear graveyard now more costly than HS2
Steve Thomas, emeritus professor of energy policy at Greenwich University, an expert in nuclear economics and policy, points out that we have built lots of rail lines and power stations – but never a giant nuclear waste site thousands of feet below the sea. “The volume of the GDF would be equivalent to Wembley Stadium...