If the new nuclear powers are built there will have to be hundreds of miles of pylons built to carry the nuclear generated electricity across the countryside of England and Wales. This is because the new nuclear power stations will typically be 1.6GW, compared with around 1 GW of power that an existing typcial nuclear power [...]
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