How safe is nuclear power?
Laura Miller talks to the Scot in charge of the first nuclear power station to be built in the UK since 1991.
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Nicola Fauvel (pictured) is the station director of Somerset’s Hinkley Point C, the first nuclear power station to be built in the UK since 1991.
She talks to us about starting her career at Torness in East Lothian - and the prospect of a repeat of the disasters at Chernobyl and Fukushima.
Scotcast is the BBC’s Scottish news podcast. This episode is hosted by Laura Miller.
Get in touch: scotcast@ bbc.co.uk
Picture credit: EDF UK
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