Does Hitachi decision mean the end of UK's nuclear ambitions?

Despite recent scrapping of three plants, experts still feel the energy has stake in future

• Hitachi scraps 16 nuclear power station
• The role of nuclear power in UK and the alternatives

Ever since Tony Blair rebooted support for nuclear power 13 years ago, British governments have been committed to a new generation of reactors to secure supplies and cut carbon emissions.

However, those ambitions have yielded only one project under construction, Hinkley Point C in Somerset, south-west England.