Hitachi failed its nuclear test. If only it had the vanity of HS2 | Simon Jenkins

It seems there’s cash only for the trophy projects that feed politicians’ egos, no matter how wasteful they are

Poor Wylfa. The nuclear power station nestles in a landscape of bliss in north Wales, but it was never glamorous enough for Westminster. This week the Japanese firm Hitachi failed to get sufficient government subsidy for its rebuilding, and pulled out. Wylfa lacks the political magnetism of the only other spearhead into Britain’s new nuclear age, Hinkley Point.

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