I can think of few areas more divorced from reality than people who are still convinced nuclear energy has a big role in our future. All of the evidence in front of our eyes seems to overwhelmingly point in the opposite direction. Hinkley Point C seems to perfectly illustrate this.
It's being built by the world's premier nuclear energy nation, France. If they can't get it right, who can? Yet some people in British politics are still blithely talking about nuclear power having a large part in Britain's future. How is this supposed to happen? British government spending is vastly over-stretched as it is. Where are taxpayers going to find the 100s of billions (if not trillions at these costs) to support this? Who is going to build it? There's no indigenous nuclear industry, and outside of French companies, the only other options are China or Russia. Undesirable for obvious reasons.
It's usually at this point that nuclear supporters turn to hopium and talk of small nuclear reactors, a technology that is still 'in development' after half a century.