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The Hinkley Point disaster

Britain’s new nuclear power plant, if it happens, is guaranteed to produce some of the most expesnive energy in the world

24 October 2015

9:00 AM

24 October 2015

9:00 AM

How easy it would be to scorn the environmentalists who are up in arms about George Osborne’s new pet project, the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station. You can understand their anxiety: subsidies for green energy are being slashed, yet the Chancellor will do anything — and pay anything — to get this project up and running.

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