The decommissioned Wylfa nuclear site beyond Cemlyn Bay.
Photographer: Francesca Jones/Bloomberg
Brexit Britain’s Nuclear Future May Lie on a Welsh Island
Anglesey is where the government’s new energy strategy and its economic vision meet, but some locals are skeptical.
The complex of grey and beige rectangular blocks on the horizon have an unusual security deployment. Four cows stand guard at an iron gate at the field that leads up to what’s now a defunct nuclear power plant.
The site on Anglesey is a relic of more industrious times for the island off Wales’s northwest coast. The reactors began decommissioning seven years ago, not long after an aluminum plant shut a few miles away. Hundreds of jobs disappeared and Anglesey was left to rely on tourism, its port and agriculture, including cattle rearing.