This is the second installment of a two-part opinion column on nuclear power in Plymouth. How soon we forget. Or maybe we didn’t know much to begin with. Those two thoughts pop into my head when I hear people – especially politicians – speak in glowing terms about the prospect of building a new nuclear […]
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Re-examining Plymouth’s fraught relationship with nuclear energy
This is the first of a two-part column on nuclear power in Plymouth. The 1972 opening of the Pilgrim nuclear power plant might have been the worst thing to happen in Plymouth’s long history. It ushered in an era of fool’s gold prosperity that, over time, exacted a steep price on what was a quintessential […]