Posted on 09/25/2021 7:44:09 PM PDT by blueplum
Ministers are closing in on a deal that could kick China off a project to build a £20bn nuclear power station on the Suffolk coast and pump in tens of millions of pounds of taxpayer cash instead – a move that would heighten geopolitical tensions.
The government could announce plans to take a stake in Sizewell C power station, alongside the French state-backed power giant EDF, as early as next month, ahead of the Cop26 climate summit.
That would be likely to result in China General Nuclear (CGN), which currently has a 20% stake in Sizewell, being removed from the project.
It risks inflaming political tensions, which are running high after Britain’s decision to join the Aukus nuclear submarine pact....
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Good. Try to punish China however you can.
Why would anyone want China building them a nuclear power station.
Russia once built an embassy for the US. It was worthless as it was infested with bugs, and not the live insect kind.
I wish somebody would build a Nuke in the United States.
With only 20% they don’t have a controlling interest and they can’t take it home with them.
Take note that the Chinese are buying up farmland in the US. Also note that a Chinese company bought Smithfield the largest pork processor in the US.
Having Chinese control our food supply is not exactly smart.
“£20bn nuclear power station”
It seems expensive.
Maybe Fauci has a twin brother mixed up in the deal.
That’s about his speed.
Hinckley C, the other new UK nuclear plant now under construction, is costing £23bn.
#4 I remember that. They attached listening devices to the steel girders and would pick conversations.
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