Expensive energy is baked into Britain’s future
It’s not cheap being green
AT NOON ON January 7th the twin nuclear reactors at Hunterston B power station, on the Firth of Clyde on Scotland’s west coast, were shut down for the final time. The plant was once the future. Part of a fleet of high-tech British reactors designed—unsuccessfully—for export, it was connected to the grid in 1976, just after the great oil-price shock of 1973.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “It’s not cheap being green”
Britain January 15th 2022
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- Expensive energy is baked into Britain’s future
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