The most notorious example – or the most confected, depending on your point of view – is the £50 million (€56 million) “fish disco” at a nuclear plant in Somerset. The Hinkley project’s system will suck in 12 million cubic metres of water a day from the Bristol Channel. This is where the fish disco comes in. Former Tory cabinet member and now Spectator editor Michael Gove coined the “fish disco” moniker in exasperation at the project’s cost and complexity. “[Britain] is now the most expensive place in the world to build nuclear projects,” Fingleton wrote.

Source: The Irish Times December 03, 2025 17:03 UTC