It's the mid 1960s and Britain is trying to pick the technology to use for her next generation of nuclear power stations. Under government pressure the CEGB picked the Advanced Gas Cooled Reactor and then spent the next 18 years trying to make the damned thing work.
What if the government had listened to the doubts of the CEGB chief Christopher Hinton and gone for a less ambitious reactor design but the same ambitious building programme? What is the effect on 1970s politics of having viable nuclear power plants in place and operational instead of the historic cost over-runs and delays?
What if the government had listened to the doubts of the CEGB chief Christopher Hinton and gone for a less ambitious reactor design but the same ambitious building programme? What is the effect on 1970s politics of having viable nuclear power plants in place and operational instead of the historic cost over-runs and delays?