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The article says THORP "Generated revenues of £9bn", and cost £1.8bn to build (1994 pounds?).

Decommissioning is forecast to cost £4bn. Presumably at least £4bn, given the rest of the project's costs.

Subtract operating costs, which I can't find, and I wonder what the overall loss to British taxpayers is.

It looks like nuclear didn't grow as much as they were hoping. So Sellafield's parent company could take their earnings and dump the tax payer with the clean up cost. I won't be surprised if they put Sellafield into liquidation before they finish clean up.

It seems quite suspect to me.

Sellafield's owner is the NDA. Liquidating Sellafield would likely only end up with it being handed to... the NDA.

I'd love to be proven wrong but I believe that all nuclear plants have been loss making, even without taking decommissioning into account.

The use of nuclear isnt or wasn't always about 'cheap dnergy' but about energy security. Don't forget that we often don't think of tbe huge geopolitical costs of our continued reliance on oil.

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