This week I'm joined by nuclear whizz Adam Bell of Stonehaven to discuss last week's UK Spending Review which invested a lot of money and political capital to rejuvenate the UK's fast dwindling fleet of nuclear power stations. We discuss the following:

• Why did the building of nuclear reactors (almost) grief to a halt in 1989?

• The risks of China and Russia dominating the nuclear industry

• Why the construction Hinkley C is running over budget and behind schedule

• Small modular reactor technology and use cases

• The role of nuclear in meeting the Government's clean power objectives

• Renewables today or nuclear next decade? Opportunity cost tensions

• The changing role of GB Energy

• Is the nuclear announcement intended to provide the Government with political cover for Net Zero?

• Public opinion of nuclear energy

• Fuel availability and waste disposal

Phew! The density of information and insight packed into this episode could power a small grid by itself.

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