It’s a good sign that nuclear power has returned to Anglesey

On the Isle of Anglesey in North Wales sits Wylfa nuclear power station. For 44 years, until its final reactor closed in December 2015, it provided over a thousand well-paid jobs and clean, reliable energy. At its peak, it generated almost half the electricity in Wales.

If there’s one thing the locals want more than a third Menai Crossing – the nearest A&E is on the mainland and only accessible via two beautiful, but fundamentally not fit for purpose, bridges built in the first half of the 19th century – it is for nuclear generation to return to the island. It’s not hard to see why: after the last reactor at Wylfa shut down, median full-time pay on the island fell by 14 per cent in just three years.

If the government is serious about kickstarting a new ‘golden age of nuclear’, they urgen