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Nick Butler

Nick Butler, a visiting professor at King’s College London, is founding chair of the Kings Policy Institute and chair of Promus Associates

An employee works in a corridor during a media tour of the Flamanville 3 reactor at the Evolutionary Power Reactor (EPR) nuclear power plant, operated by Electricite de France SA (EDF), in Flamanville, France, on Tuesday, June 14, 2022. Despite the delays at Flamanville, President Emmanuel Macron has insisted France needs new reactors to replace some of EDF’s aging units and cope with an expected boom in clean-energy demand. Photographer: Benjamin Girette/Bloomberg via Getty Images
BORIS JOHNSON

Can nuclear energy come back from the grave?

Because of the lead times involved, nuclear cannot offer an instant solution to today’s challenges. Within a decade, however, nuclear, alongside wind and solar, could undermine…

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