I'd rather we threw whatever guaranteeing stake the UK government owes into supporting Hinkcley instead to the likes of Rolls Royce and modular small-scale nucl

I'd rather we threw whatever guaranteeing stake the UK government owes into supporting Hinkcley instead to the likes of Rolls Royce and modular small-scale nuclear, which seems to me a better use of fission nuclear in the [hopeful] interim between now and fusion hopefully becoming A Thing in a decade (or five). Heck, given how much money the current administration's spunked, we could just add some more zeroes to the deficit and double up... . But yes, you're not wrong :) - ed - the loss of the British Nuclear industry's one of the last generation's stupidest mess-ups.