Do good Hinckley C: nuclear power station? | John Vidal

Hinkley to central nuclear, now because of low control room. Photography: Martin Argles the Guardian

This week company to State French EDF received permission to start the preconstruction "hinkley C", the third nuclear power station in Somerset in the Bristol Channel coast and is expected to be the first nuclear power station to be built in Britain in more than 20 years. This will involve the removal of more than 400 hectares of land and dig more soil and rock that was excavated for the Olympic Games in London.

Nuclear is considered by the Government to be a source of electricity, totally safe, cheap and predictable, ideal for working with less predictable wind energy to provide 80 per cent of electricity of low carbon Britain should generate by 2050 to meet its ambitious targets legal climate.

Hinckley is one of the eight sites now for a new generation of nuclear power plants. All are located next to the existing stations, which means that there is an available workforce and less opposition from local communities who have come to rely on nuclear power for the employment and income.

Hinckley (c) and a station of twins at Sizewell in Suffolk, if they must provide each around 1, 600MW of power of third-generation, twin-unit European pressurized reactor (EPR). Prototypes of these stations are under construction at Olkiluoto in Finland and Flammanville in France.

Both the French and Finnish prototype stations have doubled its price to around ￡ 6,000 each and are taking twice as much: six years: to build than expected. Hinckley c would be generating electricity 2018, but is now considered unlikely. No commercial nuclear power plant never has built in Great Britain in time or in its expenditure and city analysts do not think that EDF will be able to build cheaper nuclear power plants in Britain than in other places.

Nuclear critics argue that climate goals may be met with renewable energy sources and that of the nuclear costs have been distorted because the companies do not have to pay for insurance, or storage of the waste for thousands of years. In addition, they say that costs may increase even more due to the disaster of Fukushima Prefecture in Japan, which raises issues of safety in all nuclear power stations.

Nuclear advocates say that only nuclear can now provide the amount of energy needed for the next 40 years. But critics point to Germany, Italy, Switzerland and Japan, that have turned back at the source of much-disputed food.

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