Interview: Convincing Europe to embrace nuclear power
Tim Yeo faces an uphill struggle in trying to persuade Europeans to think nuclear
In 2014, Tim Yeo founded New Nuclear Watch Europe (NNWE), an industry-financed and London-based lobby group. Forty-six years earlier, he had graduated in history from Cambridge University. I was curious to know how the path from the study of history had led him to a public role in the promotion of nuclear energy. As a young graduate, Yeo worked in the financial sector in the City of London. But not for very long. He felt the lure of politics and in 1983 was elected a member of parliament for the Conservative Party. He later became a cabinet minister with responsibility for health under the premiership of John Major. Then, out of the blue, his course changed. "I set off in the morning as heal
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