Britain Remade

Hinkley Point C might be delayed again.

Why? Because Natural England say the £700 million spent on fish protection at Britain's next nuclear power station is not enough.

We can't go on like this.

Droughts aren’t just about how much rain falls, they’re driven by a shortage of places to store the rain that does.

We haven’t built a new reservoir in 34 years. The Government advises the public to stockpile food, but we need new reservoirs to stockpile enough water.

Unless something changes, Scotland's nuclear energy industry dies in 2030.

Annan Athletic FC is on the doorstep of Scotland's oldest nuclear power station.

This is the story of what banning nuclear means for Scotland's power grid, and for communities like Annan.

The choice is not between gas and no gas, but between gas produced in British waters and gas shipped in from abroad at higher cost, with higher emissions.

While we should use what we have, the north sea is a declining basin, and we need to transition to homegrown clean power. Britain’s always-on electricity should come from new clean nuclear energy, both gigawatt-scale reactors and small modular reactors that can be sited in far more places than their bigger cousins.

Right now Britain is the most expensive place in the world to build new nuclear. Ministers should urgently implement the Fingleton Review in full in order to drive costs down.

70 years ago this month, Britain opened the world's first full-scale nuclear power plant, Calder Hall.

By 1966 we were generating more electricity from nuclear than the rest of the world combined.

But in 2026, we haven't completed a new station for 31 years.