Costs Continue To Rise For Hinkley Point Nuclear Megaproject

For close to a decade, Great Britain’s Hinkley Point C nuclear power project has served as the go-to punching bag for anti-nuclear activists. Sure enough, the gift that keeps giving has furnished still another reason to be chary of big nuclear projects. Background for those not in the know. The current Hinkley Point nuclear project was the brainchild of British energy planners in the early 2000s.

Their goal was to build another big nuclear plant at an existing site. Several actually. French state-controlled EDF took on the task with big British…