The huge marquee for VIP nuclear guests was already erected at the Hinkley site; champagne was already on ice; VIPs were en route to Somerset to party at the final breakthrough, when hundreds of thousands of contractual pages were due to be authorised with co-signatures of the contracting parties. Suddenly, everything was off. So what really happened asks DAVID LOWRY
The UK government is planning 75GW of new nuclear power, Jamie Doward reports - equivalent to 50 1.5GW reactors, or 25 dual-reactor Hinkley C's - enough to supply 86% of the UK's energy demand.