(ANSA) – LONDON, APRIL 07 – “Nuclear power goes home”. From football to energy, the slogan of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson does not change in the video message released to formalize the highly announced “new energy strategy” of the United Kingdom – so far postponed due to the disagreements in the Council of Ministers on how to finance it – of facing the high bills triggered by the worldwide rise in the prices of gas and other sources. Dear bills that the consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine further aggravated in recent weeks under the sign of sanctions.
Johnson linked the “surge” in the cost of hydrocarbons primarily to the effects of “Vladimir Putin’s aggression”, reaffirming the British Tory government’s commitment to an immediate £ 9 billion subsidy plan to relieve families. less well-off is the increase in the bills for electricity and gas imposed (a figure considered insufficient by the Labor opposition). While at a strategic level it confirmed not only the desire to revive the use in this transition phase of the residual national hydrocarbon reserves in the North Sea, but above all to return to expand the network of civil nuclear plants on the island: passing from the limit indicated so far of “a new reactor every 10 years to a new reactor per year”. In total, the Kingdom plans to have 7 more power plants by 2050. For the prime minister, this is a “homecoming” of nuclear power in the country that “was the first to split the atom”. A tradition that previous governments (starting with the latest led by Labor) had “set aside” at the urging of environmental movements, BoJo said; but that “this government” is determined to re-propose to “guarantee clean and safe energy for the British population and for future generations”. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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