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UK fails to fix energy crisis

Montel Weekly

English - April 21, 2022 19:00 - 27 minutes - 19 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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In early April the UK announced ambitious plans to wean itself off non-domestic energy sources. Are plans to install 17 GW of nuclear capacity over the coming decades realistic? Who will build a new fleet of reactors, and more importantly, where will the cash come from? Listen to a discussion about why the government’s policy will fail to fix an energy crisis that threatens to plunge huge swathes of the country into energy poverty.


 Host: Richard Sverrisson, Editor-in-Chief, Montel
 Guest: Antony Froggatt, Senior Research Fellow, Chatham House