The UK Prime Minister met with representatives of the nuclear industry this week to re-assure them that they were part of the solution to the UK’s energy problems, promising companies like EDF, GE Hitachi, Rolls Royce, NuScale, and Westinghouse that the UK would get 25% of its electricity from nuclear through to 2050. The only problem is that Boris Johnson used the expression “cost effective” in the meeting, he said he wanted to support “a thriving pipeline of future nuclear projects in the UK in a cost-effective way.” This is basically “blather.” It’s like saying you’d like to feed everyone on caviar in a “cost effective” way. It just can’t be done. What virtually every observer failed to notice was…