Nuclear power: in the UK, the extension of EDF’s old power stations is being debated

On the banks of the Bristol Channel, EDF’s Hinkley Point power station has been supplying the equivalent of 1.7 million British homes since 1976. On the banks of the Bristol Channel, EDF’s Hinkley Point power station has been supplying the equivalent of 1.7 million British homes since 1976. At the end of July, its two reactors, each with a capacity of around 470 megawatts, will be shut down at the end of a long dismantling process. The operation is controversial in the UK, while the war in Ukraine has heightened the issue of energy security. How can the UK do without two nuclear reactors when the country has an ambitious carbon neutrality agenda and wants to move away from gas and Russian coal by the end of the year?

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