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Nice to see new nuclear generation go online. Given that it'll be quite a long time (if ever) that we can completely run off renewables + battery storage, I think nuclear is a great fit to fill that gap. It's just a shame that most of the US and Europe (and others?) are so hell-bent against nuclear power.

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Cheap access to plentiful energy has been one of the main drivers of innovation for all of human history.

It is very surprising in that context that Governments haven't pushed harder to secure their energy security more aggressively.

Agreed; the mess with Russia has revealed how negligent many European countries have been in ensuring the stability of their energy sources.

> It is very surprising in that context that Governments haven't pushed harder to secure their energy security more aggressively.

Some governments have, to the tune of millions of dead people in the middle east. Sometimes aggression is misdirected.

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