The UK government finds itself in a tangle over energy policy. That reflects the Conservative party's own agenda in dealing with the coal and nuclear industries since it came to power in 1979.
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Parker, M., Surrey, J. The genesis of the UK coal crisis. Nature 361, 677–680 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1038/361677a0
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