Commenting on the announcement of the Government will step in to underwrite insurance costs for new nuclear reactors, Ben Ayliffe of Greenpeace said:
“These proposals fly in the face of Energy Secretary Chris Huhne’s assurances that the coalition won’t subsidise new nuclear reactors. The planned revisions to nuclear insurance laws announced today amount to ministers conceding they need to provide a huge new public subsidy for an industry that has never been able to stand on its own feet.”
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