Hinkley Point C: rising costs and long delays at vast new power station

The UK's first nuclear plant to be built since 1995 is expected to cost more than 20bn

• Revealed: mental health crisis at Hinkley Point C construction site

The Hinkley Point nuclear site, on the Somerset coast, should have begun powering around 6m homes well over a year ago.

Instead, the 160-hectare (400-acre) sprawl is still the UK's largest construction site more than a decade after the plan for Britain's nuclear renaissance first emerged.