FISSION EXPEDITION
“ THIS is the solution to Britain’s energy
security problems – Sizewell C will stand as a great engineering achievement,” trumpeted the
Telegraph
on 21 August, in a piece that read like propaganda from the nuclear industry.
Oh, hang on – it was! The blatantly self-aggrandising puff piece was actually penned by the managing director of the Sizewell C project, and as such it reinforced decades of dishonest claims by its French developer EDF (writes Old Sparky).