Hinkley Point C in the U.K.: $50 billion radioactive white elephant stopped dead in its tracks?!

Illustration [artist's rendition] of Hinkley Point C nuclear station. Photograph: EDF Energy/PA An article by Graham Ruddick in the Guardian, entitled "From feast to farce: how the big Hinkley Point C party was put on ice," reported that "the UK government was meant to be celebrating, but delays and second thoughts have left the project stalled."

The two new reactors at Hinkley Point C in Somerset, southwest England, would each be 1,600 Megawatt-electric French Areva European Pressurized Reactors (EPRs). More.