Official view on Hinkley Point C? Nuclear power scheme is risky and expensive

Audit office’s 80-page report concludes that Britons have been sold a white elephant - and a badly costed one at thatThe National Audit Office does not use excitable phrases like “utter shambles.” But the spending watchdog’s verdict on Hinkley Point C, the nuclear power plant in Somerset that is supposedly inevitable, amounts to the same thing. The government “has locked consumers into a risky and expensive project with uncertain strategic and economic benefits&rdqu