Mai 2012 / Power eng

Hollande effect has left Britain facing prospect of nuclear meltdown ; Government waits on EDF before inviting foreign bids for new power plants, writes Oliver Wright

Six years ago today Tony Blair stood up at a dinner of leading industrialists and figuratively pushed Britain’s nuclear button.

Pre-empting the outcome of his own review into the country’s future energy needs, he announced that to ’keep the lights on’ and prevent global warming the Government was backing the creation of the first new generation of nuclear power stations in a decade. "If we don’t do this now," he said, "we will be committing a serious dereliction of our duty to the future (…)

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