When Tony Blair launched a review of energy needs last autumn, his support for nuclear power was never in doubt. The big question was how, after rejecting nuclear energy as uneconomic three years ago, the government could justify investment in a new generation of plants and make it a reality.
In an interview yesterday with the Financial Times, Alistair Darling, trade and industry secretary, explained that soaring oil and gas prices and the need to tackle climate change had tilted the argument in nuclear power's favour.
