UK is also a good place for nuclear power with an almost complete absence of risk factors, though with the price of renewables it’s too late to exploit it to the level France has done.
I suspect the arrival of North Sea oil and gas eased the energy concerns in the 1980s.
> Instead we have the Chinese taking 30 years to build our new reactor.
It's still owned by the same company that operates all the French nuclear reactors, EDF, and I suspect that most of the people doing the actual work on site are British. China can certainly build new reactors in China. I wonder if it's same the general disease of Western project management which causes high speed rail to get more and more expensive and less feasible.
* would need a gaurenteed strike price around something like 2005 electricity prices.
They would have been online by now as they were going to be the same type as the one that opened in finland
there hasn't been a ban since 2021:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/biggest-ever-renewable-en...
Onshore wind was technically allowed but in practice the rules were so restrictive that it was very difficult to get any projects approved. So yes technically not a ban, but it was a de facto ban. https://fullfact.org/live/2024/jul/onshore-wind-ban/