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Nuclear Industry

When upgrading reactors, even Canadian projects have come in massively over budget. So even there, in one of my favourite countries, such things are not always done well. My response to the hon. Gentleman’s argument is that the industry also has a sorry record of receiving hidden subsidies. The market is rigged in favour of the nuclear industry. Billions of pounds of public money have gone into research and development for nuclear energy, compared with tiny amounts that have gone into research for other forms of energy. If we include fusion research, even now nuclear research takes up more than half of publicly funded energy research. That is one hidden subsidy. The hon. Gentleman is shaking his head. I shall show him the graph that I received from the UK Energy Research Centre later.