POWER FAILURE

NUCLEAR PLANT PLAN WARNING

- BY DAN VEVERS Chief Reporter

LABOUR'S costly "fixation" with new nuclear power will do nothing to lower Scots' bills or hit climate targets, experts have warned.

It comes after Keir Starmer's goverment last week announced a "golden age" of nuclear energy with a £14.2billion investment to finally build the delayed Sizewell C plant in Suffolk which it claimed will create 10,000 jobs.

Ministers say the move is vital to prevent future blackouts and to help the shift to a low carbon economy.

Now campaigners and academics have warned "inevitable cost overruns will add a "nuclear tax" to bills.