A politician with such a long and mixed track record as energy secretary Ed Miliband should perhaps have been more wary of declaring that nuclear power will “deliver a golden age of clean energy abundance”, and that it is “the only way to protect family finances, take back control of our energy, and tackle the climate crisis”.
Such things may yet prove to be so – and indeed investment in a new generation of nuclear power may well be inevitable. However, it is equally the case that the history of nuclear power in Britain, spanning some seven decades, has been far from an unalloyed success.
