EDF to tell UK school children how "positive" new nuclear will be

EDF, the embattled French nuclear utility, will soon initiate a series of "exhibitions in schools and colleges in the East of England, "to talk about the positive impact the project" a proposed new reactor at the Sizewell site would have "on skills in the region." A 12-week public consultation phase will begin on January 4, 2019. "Your views are important to us as we take proposals for Sizewell C forward. Please engage with the project team and come along to your local exhibition," says a company statement. It is to be hoped that plenty will mobilize to "engage" EDF on how detrimental Sizewell C will be. The site is on the beach (pictured left) on a coastline that has shifted dramatically over the centuries -- leaving earlier human settlements now submerged out at sea -- a landscape is likely to change far faster under climate change. Despite massive delays at the EDF reactor projects in France and Finland, and slow progress at its Hinkley C site in the west of England, EDF boasts it expects to begin construction at Sizewell in 2021.