Scale down nuclear programme and do us all a favour

The government has justified keeping the public in the dark about the cost of its project to build eight nuclear reactors on two grounds: Doing so would jeopardise the procurement process, and that it is still negotiating the price. Such justifications are absurd in a democracy.Citizens, who will be asked to foot the bill for the purchase of 9600MW of nuclear energy through the construction of eight atomic reactors, surely deserve to at least be given a ballpark figure, given that the procuremen...