Letter Alan Debenham: As much as many local organisations have been lured by French government-owned EDF into collaborating with and welcoming its construction of Hinkley C new nuclear power station, the extremely chequered life of this enormous project since its approval in 2008 could well now have reached a downturn too far. Apart from unique controversial storage of high-level radioactive waste on site, it’s complex financial status now hovers between being too costly to cancel and too hopeless a deal for both electricity consumers and Tory government to continue with: nearly all experts and industrial commentators describing it as an epic financial disaster.
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