I am perfectly happy to see nuclear development, provided it is cost effective, which is yet to be proved here.

Meanwhile, recent extremely cold temperatures, records in many places, are showing that CO2 has little if any effect on temperatures, so perhaps we should use our natural advantage, & burn our coal.

In fact that we import our diesel makes our railways extremely vulnerable if any serious hostilities should occur. Our main transport is via trucks & rail, no diesel means no food in the super markets. We should see what coal powered steam trains could do using todays technology, & develop a modern steam fleet. There would be a ready market elsewhere for such if supercritical technology was used.

The worry about nuclear waste is largely out of date.
If we had any brains at all we would have a complete nuclear cycle
processing system.
We did up the ore, we refine it to fuel metal, we sell some on the
international market, we take back other peoples waste, we process the
waste by feeding it to another reactor and extract more energy out of
the waste; This can be done three times I was told;
Then the much lower active waste can be buried in the desert for
some hundreds of years and we charge the owners of the waste a nice
big sum of money for storage.

What a Racket ! Where is the King of the Cross when we need him ?

Hi Bezza,
Maybe China has the brains and will to make it happen.

China’s ‘Particle Beam Cannon’ Is a Nuclear-Power Breakthrough
http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2022/06/chinas-particle-beam-cannon-nuclear-power-breakthrough/368082/
"It promises to recycle spent nuclear fuel, making it cheaper and less dangerous—and moving Beijing toward energy independence."