Actually, I did wonder whether there might have been a backlash against the crazy under-engineered Windscale air cooled reactors and the near disaster of the reactor fire there:
So Windscale might have been the Tay Bridge to the Forth Bridge of the AGRs.
[Edit: The description of the fire in that Wikipedia page is pretty alarming - fancy sticking a scaffolding pole into an on-fire nuclear reactor and bringing it out dripping in liquid irradiated uranium!]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire
So Windscale might have been the Tay Bridge to the Forth Bridge of the AGRs.
[Edit: The description of the fire in that Wikipedia page is pretty alarming - fancy sticking a scaffolding pole into an on-fire nuclear reactor and bringing it out dripping in liquid irradiated uranium!]