New nuclear power stations in Wales would have a big impact on our constitutional future - so why the lack of debate?

He is right. This merits discussion.

There is no debate because hosting such an oversized (for our purposes) nuclear power station would make it harder for us to divorce ourselves from the Empire in future. They would say we have to pay for something too large for our needs. There is no debate because both main parties in the Empire are OneNation zealots. If we want to free ourselves, we need to oppose this ourselves because politicians won’t

Can't see there's much to discuss, Starmer has come out in favour, the tories are having orgasms over the thought of nuclear along with fracking, Lib Dems will go along with the tories, That leaves Plaid to fight our corner once again, I would say unless there is some serious direct action taken, nuclear power stations are a forgone conclusion.

The choice for Plaid Cymru must be: You can either support Great British Nuclear's power stations or independence - but not both.

For those who envisage independence as slightly more devolution and perhaps slightly less overlordship from our neighbours, new nuclear capacity will just be seen as helpful cooperation.  Carwyn Jones may be correct in assessing this to be the majority view at the present time.  But Mr Jones might recognise this to be a dynamic situation.  As more people have become supportive of devolution with closer acquaintance, so too more will come to recognise the benefits of real independence, and the case for the latter will eventually prevail.  Ifan Morgan Jones is right to draw attention to the pre-emptive nature of nuclear energy.  It is a clear and present danger to the sustainable, stable and peaceful Cymru that we all seek.   While strategically and technically undesirable for many reasons, new nuclear would undermine our (real) independence in at least three ways.  We would be… 1.     … drawn again into reliance on the UK nuclear infrastructure for operational and other assistance 2.     … forced to continue UK-style security restrictions on our freedoms to ensure the integrity of the facilities 3.     … required to adopt the lack of transparency and accountability in the accompanying business structures that are characteristic of both civilian and nuclear industries globally. Over successive generations and governments, energy planning in the UK has been blinded by the ‘white heat of technology’ (Wilson).  It appears even that any form of planning is contrary to the free market principles so warmly espoused by Conservative governments.  One manifestation of this is a willingness to turn Cymru into an energy colony, generating three times the energy we will need.  Another is the apparent willingness to trash our environment to achieve that aim. In the corruption of language that has accompanied the corruption of governance in the UK, ‘resilience’ is now claimed to require more nuclear.  Alas, it is precisely the opposite.  We need to use much less energy much more efficiently.  The lack of understanding in the Welsh Government, not of course standard bearers for independence, about energy and finance, to identify just two sectors, plays into the hands of the egregious machinations of Whitehall and Westminster.  There is no future in nuclear, and supporters of real independence should resist those who would sell us out.

The article does hit upon a very serious point. I think it is very likely we will be independent within the next 10 years, certainly 20, so do we really want an albatross around our neck with a nuclear power plant in Ynys Mon, tying us to England? Especially, with the potential of so much green clean energy to be had in Cymru.

The cost of decommissioning sellafield to the uk govt was a massive £70 billion. There's no question the cleanup costs of decommissioning any future nuclear plant at wylfa would bankrupt a future welsh govt and so put the kybosh on hopes for an independent Wales - and maybe that's why the british state is so keen to plonk a new nuclear power stations in Wales. Everyone who wants to see an independent Wales must oppose UK Govt plans for new nuclear power stations in Wales. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-26124803

The so-called discussion will be one-sided by the Conservatives I feel, namely. Wales you will take our Nuclear plants whether you like it or not. What England wants it usually gets because Unionist in Wales collapse like a row of dominoes out of blind deference.

"One little remarked upon motive for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was that the latter has four nuclear power plants, all built while part of the Soviet Union, that feed Russia’s electricity grid." Do you have a source for that?

nuclear power - stone age answer to the problem. Anything Johnson and Co. suggests should be thrown out rather than discussed. And anybody thinking of voting tory in the upcoming elections, would do well to remember the photo of Felix Aubel standing beside his vote leave banner altered to vote beaver! Didn't he have to emigrate in the end?! The tories and their ideas are a complete laughing stock!

Estonia, population under 2 million, and a country to which Wexit proponents suggest we should emulate, is planning nuclear power in order to transition from carbon-heavy oil shale. If they can do it, why can’t we? Perhaps what Ifan is saying by this article is that actually, Wales is too poor to become independent and sustain even the same standard of living it currently endures.

If they build new nuclear plants on Ynys Mon and in Traws they will in effect have defeated North West Wales for they will have to garrison them if only on paper... The Senedd should audit just exactly who owns what in Wales. The way things are going what has not crossed the border has gone south... So maybe it would be better if Gwynedd were to do its own stock take and see what remains in local ownership. They could start with Zip World...