There is a push in the UK to design small nuclear power reactors to build in addition to a few misguided large ones. Here is an article that grasps at straws to justify the plan.

It may be faster to build 24GW of nuclear generation using small reactors than using big reactors, but it will still be slower than the renewable alternatives.

Many smaller nuclear power reactors might be cheaper to build than a few large ones, but probably not cheaper than solar or wind.

Also, they do not cure the other problems of nuclear power.

These include the pollution from the mining and refining of uranium. the problems from the waste, and the danger of having a pre-exploded nuclear weapon inside a building on your territory.

Is the real issue that the UK doesn't build its own wind turbines? I am sure it would be cheaper and easier to change that, than to build any sort of nuclear reactors.

* The head of Britain’s biggest police force has said he is frustrated with the Home Office for its slow progress at reviewing "perverse" rules that prevent him from being able to sack his own officers.*

In many countries, women are forbidden to leave home without permission of a husband or male guardian.

*In Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar and [Salafi] Arabia, women can be arrested, [jailed] or forced to return if male guardians report that they are absent from their homes. [In] Israel … religious courts have jurisdiction over marriage and divorce &mash; mean women can lose their right to maintenance from their husbands for leaving the marital home, working or traveling without their husband’s consent.*

Of course, Iran and Afghanistan are even worse. But this injustice exists to some extent in a broader region, including all the Arab countries in the Middle East, and Egypt.

People in a town in England want to build an offshore wind farm planned locally and owned locally.

This approach could be very good for dissolving opposition.

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