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Nuclear power can’t compete with solar power: former IEA boss and nuclear advocate Nobuaki Tanaka

This is a guest post by Jeremy Leggett. Views are the author's own and do not necessarily represent the opinions or positions of MyGridGB or Dr Andrew Crossland.

Nuclear is “ridiculously expensive”, “utterly uncompetitive”: $9bn now to build one reactor. So reports Asahi Shimbun.

And around the world, right now, how many civil servants will be flogging away at the dying horse, under kamikaze instructions from energy-incumbency masters? In the UK, they certainly occupy a good few rows of desks in the Department of BEIS.

Image: Phys.org