LONDON — When Queen Elizabeth II opened the U.K.’s first domestic nuclear power plant in the 1950s, the world came to watch.
Scientists and statesmen attended from nearly 40 countries. It was, said Richard Butler, Lord Privy Seal, an “epoch-making” moment.
By the 1990s — the sector’s peak — the U.K.’s nuclear fleet supplied over a quarter of the country’s electricity capacity.
Yet by 2028, the country will be down to its one last, lonely nuke.