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The Sizewell C Project
Representation by Alistair Gordon-Brown
- Date submitted
- 28 September 2020
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
The EPR project by EDF has proven to be impossible to complete economically. The Finish experience should ,as a pilot project, be scrutinised during the planning process. Starting in 2005 it is not projected to be operational until 2023 at the earliest. There is no insurance that Sizewell will not overrun by this sort of time period. The nuclear industry in France is on it's knees and cannot complete Sizewell without the massive support of taxpayers who will be subsiding a nationalised EU company by paying a huge tariff on electricity prices. Compare this to the rapidly falling prices of electricity generated by renewables with proven technology and there can be no justification for continuing with the Sizewell Whi