This move risks forfeiting British leadership in a strategic sector for no obvious benefit at all.
The project is both a gift to the anti-nuclear brigade and testament to the industry’s failure to embrace cutting-edge technology.
With generation-two fusion reactors, we would potentially have enough fuel to last until the end of mankind.
Decades of haphazard policy have left Britain with a patchwork reactor system which is expensive to run and proving tricky to replace.