Why British nuclear flopped

This article appeared in Issue 23 of Works in Progress magazine, which print subscribers received over the past two weeks. Not yet a subscriber? You can sign up for the magazine here.On 17th October 1956, Queen Elizabeth II pressed the switch that activated Calder Hall, the world’s first grid-scale nuclear power station. As the country attempted to reassert world leadership after the trauma of World War II, The Times’s correspondent excitedly recalled that:Today, with a boisterous wind to displa...