So it's yes to Hinkley C after all

When in the summer Theresa May called whoa to the signing of the deal to have the French and Chinese to build a nuke at Hinkley Point I thought, good for her, this bodes well for her leadership.
But then the Chinese had a word in her shell-like at the recent G8 summit and now we're going for it. What did they say? It isn't hard to imagine. Something like: "You frustrate us now at your peril. I don't think you want the ire of the world's second biggest economy falling on you. There's too much at stake, not for us very much, but for you a whole lot..." And she buckled.

Now we're going for Brexit, she has doubtless argued behind the scenes, we can't afford to alienate one of our biggest trading partners. We'd be fucked. But would we? They talk about "energy security" all the time these days, but tell me, what is more secure than the knowledge that the wind will blow and the tide will go in and out twice a day? That's where we should be concentrating our efforts, not in an extremely expensive, potentially catastrophic method of creating electricity.

Not long ago the Japanese premier visited Wales, where we are considering replacing the ageing Wylfa nuclear power plant with a new one. He reminded us what happened at Fukushima, where, despite sophisticated defence barriers, a massive tsunami overtopped it with ease and flooded the place. OK, you might say, tsunamis aren't very common in Wales, although some people say there was one in 1607 (though others say it was a massive, storm driven tidal surge) which flooded huge areas of Wales and the West Country. What I'm saying is that it's actually impossible to predict what might happen next (as I discovered for myself this summer), especially in the brave new world of climate change, when all over the world, weather events not seen for hundreds of years seem to be becoming almost commonplace. We live in an uncertain world. Why don't we play safe?