Lynemouth closure ends long aberration

摘要

RioTinto Alcan's closure of its Lynemouth smelter in England marks the end of a chapterthat began more than kO years ago. The scene is set by the following quote from my book, Comer. "Two furtherspecificfactors concerning the UKwere part of the picture. Thefirst was the desire fora 'white hot technological revolution' of the late1960s government of Harold Wilson. "He invented some wholly unrealistic electricity pricing formulae, based on optimistic estimates of power generation costs that should in duecourse be possible from atomic power.