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Proof of the gravity of the hiatus is that EDF has recently cut its dedicated nuclear workforce by 20% or 150 people, and stopped recruiting, because - in the words of an EDF source - the company felt it could no longer "burn money" (no jokes please about how that might be cheaper than more conventional fuel).
BBC: Why Treasury may reject nuclear option
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It results from the 1.6 billion people that do not have any access to electricity whatsoever, the 2.4 billion that have almost no access to electricity and still burn wood and manure as their main source of energy, and the 3 billion new people that will be born by mid-century who will need electricity.
FORBES: What Is Our Energy Future?
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As such, anyone who's had to burn the midnight oil verifying a flaw has that much more reason to contribute at the source link.
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