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1. 

   @Darth_Revan25

   January 27, 2024 at 9:30 pm

   Typical stuck up racism from that English woman. I get her points about the government spending billions on something that's going to take far too long to deliver any benefits when we need those benefits now, but the fact it's not "British"? Who the fuck cares? Implying there's a bigger UK nuclear company who are planning to build new reactors here. Answer: there aren't! At least EDF are actually doing something about it. What, she doesn't trust foreign companies? 😂 My god.

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2. 

   @redcalx9568

   January 27, 2024 at 9:30 pm

   Bring iT x

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3. 

   @beezknees4339

   January 27, 2024 at 9:30 pm

   God will destroy those that destroy earth

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   @thomaswykes3647

   January 27, 2024 at 9:30 pm

   We want jobs, not snobs

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5. 

   @lukemitchell1975

   January 27, 2024 at 9:30 pm

   NICE ONE

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6. 

   @glennmoreland6457

   January 27, 2024 at 9:30 pm

   As long as the likes of EDF or China aren't involved in it
   🇬🇧😐

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   @nickbutler7935

   January 27, 2024 at 9:30 pm

   Should be built by a British company, using British Labour and materials. Not a Foreign outfit with questionable links to Hostile Countries.

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   @ericboxer3053

   January 27, 2024 at 9:30 pm

   Lol it'll take 20 years and probably never get built..coal is the answer but the wokeists will do everything they can to destroy cheap effective energy

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   @nickerrison-davey9099

   January 27, 2024 at 9:30 pm

   👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

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    @garagenigel

    January 27, 2024 at 9:30 pm

    Be ready in 50 years then……can't wait for my £10k a week gas bill to go down! 🤦🙄

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    @tammime

    January 27, 2024 at 9:30 pm

    It takes years to build… In the meantime, we need coal for UK energy independence.

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12. 

    @archiebald4717

    January 27, 2024 at 9:30 pm

    Good news.

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13. 

    @williamstucke5445

    January 27, 2024 at 9:30 pm

    "All the Uranium comes from Russia"

    It's amazing how wrong people can be. Russia is only the 6th largest exporter of Uranium, at 2,635 tonnes U. Compare this with
    Kazakhstan: 21,819 tonnes U
    
    Namibia: 5,753 tonnes U
    
    Canada: 4,693 tonnes U
    
    Australia: 4,192 tonnes U

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14. 

    @TrevsTravelsByNarrowboat

    January 27, 2024 at 9:30 pm

    A step in the right direction. Let the green keep warm this winter gathering around windmills that catch fire. "really green hahahahahaha"

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15. 

    @between-paradise-and-hell

    January 27, 2024 at 9:30 pm

    now build 7 more

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16. 

    @susiewickham9990

    January 27, 2024 at 9:30 pm

    Happy days

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17. 

    @Planet-Bertie

    January 27, 2024 at 9:30 pm

    Typical, give foreigners the profits. Even our new passports are printed in France ffs!

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18. 

    @johnl5316

    January 27, 2024 at 9:30 pm

    wind mills kill tons of birds and bats and leave tons and tons of material that must be buried

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19. 

    @iaincathro3373

    January 27, 2024 at 9:30 pm

    Better ditch IR35 or no one will be working on it……

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20. 

    @unclem7816

    January 27, 2024 at 9:30 pm

    About time. Need 5 more and fracking. And get the coal out of the ground and sell it abroad.

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21. 

    @uingaeoc3905

    January 27, 2024 at 9:30 pm

    These giant generators – whatever the fuel – are a leftover from the Bigger and Fewer is Better adopted by the old National Electricity Generating Board. Let's Go Rolls Royce Mini Nukes.

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22. 

    @alanedge1159

    January 27, 2024 at 9:30 pm

    Brilliant

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23. 

    @MikeHarrison3266

    January 27, 2024 at 9:30 pm

    About bloody time, we can not rely on big fans and sunshine, especially as they are a recycling nightmare and we have to rely on China to supply so much of it equally we should not be having a French company or any other country anywhere near our power supply it should be British paying back into Britain. The climate emergency is the biggest con and scam ever, possibly second to covid. We need to be self-sufficient in as many ways as possible and we should also consider what we personally need to do to ensure the freedom of each person and as a nation.

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24. 

    @1justpara

    January 27, 2024 at 9:30 pm

    FOREIGN OWNED. Hahahahah Couldn't make this stuff up. Our WATER is already at least 70% foreign owned. CHY-NAH rules the world already

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25. 

    @sheldonhollies2997

    January 27, 2024 at 9:30 pm

    If it is built ?.

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26. 

    @callum5088

    January 27, 2024 at 9:30 pm

    Why build a Nuclear Power plant it'll just be an easy target for the Russians

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27. 

    @sandman8993

    January 27, 2024 at 9:30 pm

    Yes! Will it be ready for the winter…….

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28. 

    @martinnewall5319

    January 27, 2024 at 9:30 pm

    What a ridiculous statement
    " Britains GOING Nuclear "!!
    Going???? We were the 1st ffs!!!!!!!

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    @charlesoleary3066

    January 27, 2024 at 9:30 pm

    You’ll need more than that but it’s a step in the right direction

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30. 

    @patricka.crawley6572

    January 27, 2024 at 9:30 pm

    By the time it's built the U.K. population will have increased by 7,000,000.
    It'll just be keeping pace with the current disastrous mess that the U.K. is in.

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    @mikefloyde8433

    January 27, 2024 at 9:30 pm

    Not before time, lets hope they don’t sell this one off to, they got us in the position now they can get us out of it 😖😖😖😖

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    @johnbutt6912

    January 27, 2024 at 9:30 pm

    Rolls Royce do mini reactors. Why not small and less trouble if there is a problem. Why pay the French and Chinese? Haven't we learned anything???

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    @truthjunkie2325

    January 27, 2024 at 9:30 pm

    EDF? WTF? Why are we not constructing it ourselves? YThis is disgusting…

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34. 

    @lumpyfishgravy

    January 27, 2024 at 9:30 pm

    Starting to question? We've been howling into the wind for years! Not that anyone listened … until the sound of pigeons roosting became deafening!

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    @studio12archive60

    January 27, 2024 at 9:30 pm

    Good. Wind and solar are a scam

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36. 

    @googlesucks925

    January 27, 2024 at 9:30 pm

    If my tax money goes to 10 of these, I'm not complaining. The reason these haven't been built before is the same reason nikola tesla had his nose put out. Cheap/free energy.

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37. 

    @andyq752

    January 27, 2024 at 9:30 pm

    At last. A sensible, practical energy decision.

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38. 

    @charlestoast4051

    January 27, 2024 at 9:30 pm

    If just one of these power stations goes pop, like Fukushima or Chernobyl, a sizeable part of this tiny island will be rendered uninhabitable. Nuclear power has never been economically viable, it has relied on huge government subsidies, and the nuclear industry has no solution for disposal of waste products which remain hazardous for thousands of years, with some remaining radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years. Nuclear has always been the most expensive way to generate electricity, bar none. By far the cheapest now, without any subsidies, is onshore wind. The recent development of sand batteries makes it possible to have low cost grid-scale storage.

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    @Vandal_Savage

    January 27, 2024 at 9:30 pm

    Another Chernobyl waiting to happen.

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    @JonDingle

    January 27, 2024 at 9:30 pm

    So in the next ten to fifteen years we go short because our dumb politicians have shutdown coal and gas fired power stations and also shutdown much of renewable energy industries.
    Whether we like it or not, we need a mix of energy sources.

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    @andrewwhite1065

    January 27, 2024 at 9:30 pm

    Enrich uranium in the UK and buy the resourse from down under.

    Rolls Royce and their 'compact' reactor outputs around 440 MWe, but no mention in the segment of what the very large Sizewell C plant output will be, only how many homes it can power.

    Good move nevertheless, because you really can't find a cleaner, safe and more reliable energy source right now…..
    and fussion could still be another 20 years before it's perfected and commercialised, or something else comes along.

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42. 

    @oldshiny3012

    January 27, 2024 at 9:30 pm

    a decision that should have been made 20yrs ago

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43. 

    @YUDNSAY

    January 27, 2024 at 9:30 pm

    Get back to coal, exploit the energy, use the filters developed at Drax, and improve them, its possible, if we can afford to splurge billions on the unnecessary fighting of a cold, on the unnecessary HS2, on funding a war that has nothing to do with us, we can spend money on our non-dependent important infrastructure. We need time Until they crack fusion energy. They often complain about China, alongside its vast renewables programme, using coal-fired power stations, It would appear a necessary strategy given the energy needs of 1.5billion consumers, it is also the necessary strategy for a population of 65 million, as, if anyone cares to check, having the largest renewable policy bar none in the world, still isn't enough. The UK has a population of 65+ million, and produces roughly 1% of the worlds pollution emissions, China @ 225 times the population, produces 25-28%, which could suggest that they have more control over their emissions than the UK, which given that China produces a huge swathe of the global supply chain, and has civil engineering projects on a biblical scale, where the UK has very little now, could also suggest they are more on top of it, than simple data would represent.

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