Energy

Small nuclear reactors can help close the UK’s energy gap

And revitalise its industry

By Duncan Weldon

April 19, 2017

General view of Hinkley Point B Nuclear power station © Andrew Matthews/PA Archive/PA Images

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Duncan Weldon is Britain economics correspondent at the Economist. His book, “Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through,” is out with Little, Brown in August