France pulled off the greatest expansion of nuclear power ever, decarbonising their grid in two decades and opening 40 nuclear reactors in ten years. One key feature was making locals benefit. Localities hosting plants got huge shares of business taxes.

This report from the Manchester Evening News three days ago at the inquest is more comprehensive and detailed.

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People gravitate to opinions they understand themselves to be expected to have. In politics, legal changes create credible common knowledge of the accepted view, which filters down. Before Ireland's 2004 indoor smoking ban, 13% of Irish smokers said they favoured it. After, 46%.

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A DM from a police officer who asked to remain anonymous.

The evidence destruction worked. After six years, they've given up on finding out who did it (and who destroyed the evidence). 'All possible lines of inquiry had been examined and exhausted.'.

Lying there dying for 48 hours.

- A woman raped to death recovering from a stroke on an NHS ward.- Expected to make full recovery.- Nobody reported or noticed any of the massive blood loss in her bed after the rape (for 48 hours).- She died from blood loss.- All the evidence destroyed.

To avoid a ‘run on dependency benefits’, where young people leave a country to avoid carrying the burden of pension/social care, countries could conditionalise pension benefits on helping with grandchildren (or if they have none, the grandchildren of others). Crazy idea?.

About three quarters of the energy used to heat British homes, power industry, generate electricity, and fuel cars comes from fossil fuels. France was already below that fraction by 1985. Today less than half of French energy use is fossil. The reason for that is nuclear power.

France has the fourth greenest energy of any country in the EU – Sweden and Finland are also heavily nuclear, but have lots of lakes and low population density so can use more hydro to go slightly ahead. It is the greenest big country in the world (and has been for ages).

How France pulled off the world's greatest nuclear buildout, and one of the greatest buildouts of any kind, ever.

Noted winemakers Chinon admired their nuclear power plant so much that they put it on the label of some of their wine bottles.

Regulations did not pile up in France as elsewhere, in part because there weren't so many motivated groups willing to support anything that cut nuclear power. And while costs rose over time, their most expensive plant was a quarter of the cost of Hinkley Point C.

Nuclear municipalities charged lower property tax than neighbors. Fessenheim residents paid 9% a year, versus 13 percent for neighbors. Residents of Avoine, near the Chinon nuclear power station, paid 0.1 percent versus a 12 percent regional average.

In 2012, local councils in France paid an average of €35 in subsidies or benefits per local resident. In the 19 areas that hosted nuclear power, the average was €450 (mapped).

Avoine wasn’t the only mini-emirate. Chooz (mapped below) has offered its residents free high-speed internet and a 120-channel TV subscription since 1999.

Avoine, the commune that hosted the first EDF reactors, became known by locals as the Kuwait of Indre-et-Loire, after annual revenues there jumped from the tens of thousands of Francs to the MILLIONS in one year.