Saturday 9 April 2022

Nuclear Reactor Coming To A Town Near You

It has become obvious that Britain needs to generate more of its own power and on a windswept island surrounded by sea which would make it perfect for wind or wave generation, the Prime Minister has decided instead to build a nuclear reactor each year which will lead to: 'greater energy self-sufficiency with cheaper bills'.
They have already had a hell of a time finding sites for the nuclear reactors we already have as the locals protest about having a reactor near them not helped by a number of reports which concluded that there is an association between proximity of reactors and cancer risk and then despite all sorts of financial incentives, no council was willing to host the millions of tonnes of toxic radioactive waste from nuclear power stations which remains deadly to humans for hundreds of thousands of years.
Like most of our problems, the lack of energy problems go back to Margaret Thatcher and her right wing zeal to privatise the energy market and records show that since 1996, the furthest the records i could find go back, the average electricity bill has gone up by a third while the gas bill has gone up by just over a half but the real story is when we look at the average profit margins of the big six energy suppliers.
In 1996, the profits they made was just under 1% but in 2017 it was as much as 8.5% as a look at your gas and electric bill this year proves that when we were told that energy privitisation would 'Benefit British consumers and the competition would reduce prices and improve service quality' as Thatcher said hasn't turned out to be true.
The privatisation experiment has blatantly failed as it is obvious that it increase costs and lowers the quality of services because it is impossible for the private sector to deliver the same service for less and still make a profit and making a profit is the bottom line for businesses, the bloated increase in the profit margin of the big six shows who is benefiting and it isn't us but that's privatisation for you. Crap 'innit but still, you may get a shiny new nuclear reactor in your town, i just hope that the constant ticking of the Geiger counter doesn't keep you awake at night.

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