Leaping UK carbon emissions deliver two red-hot lessons

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1. So turning off a reactor causes increased carbon emissions...

...unless you turn it off for good. Then we we must reject any claim that emissions will rise as a result. We'll even try to deceive others into thinking they actually went down.

Quite a gig if you can get it.

The comparison puts the lie to the sceptics charge that wind power is "unreliable"....

Not really. It's obvious that both nuclear and wind/solar are "unreliable" when they break. The concern with excess penetration of wind/solar is that they're unreliable even when there's nothing wrong with them.