Connell Locke
@LockeConnell
Medic, software engineer, entrepreneur. CTPO @ KareHero. Prev Co-founder Elephant Healthcare. Passionate about science, technology, product and teams.
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Taking a cue from my friend Bruno Tavares, I've written a professional 'readme'. It outlines how I think, some of the important things I've learned, and what kind of people manager and leader I'm trying to be. medium.com/@ConnellLocke/…
NEW: Hinkley Point C will be the most expensive nuclear power station ever built. More than £700m will be spent on 'fish protection measures' due to inflexible envrionmental rules. The Nuclear Regulatory Taskforce, last year, put forward a plan to change those regulations to cut…
Last week's Govt response to the Nuclear Taskforce was concerningly non-committal. But at last, a gold-standard commitment from the PM, even hinting at similar changes in other sectors. Genuinely historic, and by far the best planning announcement from this Govt so far.
The Prime Minister spoke about the Taskforce on Nuclear Energy today: "Exactly a week ago, John Fingleton reported on our nuclear industry. He found that pointless gold plating, unnecessary red tape, well intentioned but fundamentally misguided environmental regulations, and, I…
Chancellor promised to respond to @JohnFingleton1 Nuclear Review at the Budget. Instead she's bottled it. NO commitments at all. Nothing! High energy costs are CRUSHING British industry and living standards. It is URGENT that ALL recommendations MUST be implemented ASAP.
Over 50 leading CEOs, entrepreneurs and experts are demanding the Government ACCEPT ALL the Nuclear Review recommendations. As the Budget approaches, this is how the PM and Chancellor can cut the cost of living and save British industry. Sign and share our letter 👇
The Chancellor has completely bottled the Nuclear Taskforce response. No commitment to accept any of it at all: they'll come back with their plans in *three months*!! Pathetic.
The stakes have been raised pretty high now. Accept the Taskforce report in full, and a sizeable group of people who are otherwise very unhappy will have something to cheer. Fudge it, and it will look like the govt is incapable of doing basically anything positive on growth.
Over 50 leading CEOs, entrepreneurs and experts are demanding the Government ACCEPT ALL the Nuclear Review recommendations. As the Budget approaches, this is how the PM and Chancellor can cut the cost of living and save British industry. Sign and share our letter 👇
Britain needs nuclear power. Our nuclear projects are the most expensive in the world and among the slowest. Regulators and industry are paralysed by risk aversion. This can change. For Britain to prosper, it must. Earlier this year, the Prime Minister appointed me to lead a…
It’s been a while since I wrote anything longer than a Slack message, so I tried an autobiography. ChatGPT assures me it’s Pulitzer material. You can judge - just remember, even terrible people are the heroes in their own story. open.substack.com/pub/connellloc…
NEW at WORKS IN PROGRESS ☢️⚡️🔋 France built forty nuclear reactors in ten years across the 1970s and 1980s, for a fraction of today's prices. For the first time in English, we tell the story of how they did it — and what the rest of the world needs to learn to do the same.
new from me for @worksinprogmag: how France achieved the world’s fastest nuclear buildout I tell the story of how France defied the global backlash against nuclear power by aligning local incentives, embracing standardisation and abandoning a failed domestic design. 🧵
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. worksinprogress.co/issue/liberte-…
This is so bad. How are they so weak? What was a mediocre bill is being watered down to be a completely pointless one.
NEW: Government accept changes to the planning bill put forward by MP Chris Hinchliff, after they suspended him on Wednesday Hinchliff had spearheaded a rebellion against the planning bill - with his amendment also supported by the three other suspended MPs 1/3
First-time buyers will be supported to get on the housing ladder, with the Bank of England allowing more lending at over 4.5x a buyer’s income. This reform could help 36,000 more people buy a home over its first year. Find out more about the reforms below.
It’s been one year and Labour’s newest, radical move to revive Britain, and reinvigorate its economic life, is to…inflate house prices through easing access to credit. Nobody has tried this before!
First-time buyers will be supported to get on the housing ladder, with the Bank of England allowing more lending at over 4.5x a buyer’s income. This reform could help 36,000 more people buy a home over its first year. Find out more about the reforms below.
About 35,000 hectares of Japanese urban land, or a third of the total, was replanned and upzoned by supermajority vote. This is how Japan builds urban roads, and builds support for upzoning (eg around train stations to fund transit). worksinprogress.co/issue/how-to-r…
At long last, the British government has decided to fund Sizewell B (two EPR reactors) and selected Rolls-Royce as the winner of the Small Modular Reactor competition for an SMR new build fleet (squee!) So now's a great time for a thread on how to make nuclear builds cheaper...
Great to approve Sizewell C & get behind SMRs. Big steps. I do fear that funding Sizewell C directly, esp before getting final sign-off on a design, will make HS2-like cost overruns much more likely. There’s no real incentive to keep costs down when taxpayers pay directly.
We are backing nuclear with the biggest building programme in a generation. 🔧£14.2bn for Sizewell C 👷10,000 jobs & 1,500 apprenticeships ⚛️ Small Modular Reactor programme Clean, homegrown power will boost the UK’s energy security, protect billpayers & drive economic growth.
The NHS often rejects improvement philosophies like "lean thinking" because it sounds like cost cutting. In reality it is about designing processes that waste far less and achieve better results: hsj.co.uk/daily-insight/…
Is a small daily dose of radiation over a lifetime as bad as getting the same dose all at once? Same Q: is drinking 365 beers over a year as bad as drinking 365 beers on your stag night? In almost every country in the world, nuclear regulation says: YES worksinprogress.co/issue/the-bad-…
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