Hinkley Pointless
Britain should cancel its nuclear white elephant and spend the billions on making renewables work
THE “golden decade” of co-operation between Britain and China, launched last year as Xi Jinping banqueted at Buckingham Palace, seems to have lasted all of nine months. The centrepiece of the new partnership was a deal in which China would invest £6 billion ($8 billion) in a new French-built nuclear power station at Hinkley Point in south-west England, before building one of its own in the south-east (see page 21). Yet on July 28th, as the Hinkley project was due to receive final approval, Britain’s new government announced ominously that it was under review.
This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline "Hinkley Pointless"
More from Leaders
Volodymyr Zelensky’s presidential term expires on May 20th
What does that mean for his country?
Canada’s law to help news outlets is harming them instead
Funding journalism with cash from big tech has become a fiasco
Xi Jinping is subtler than Vladimir Putin—yet equally disruptive
How to deal with Chinese actions that lie between war and peace