{"id":306845,"date":"2025-07-31T15:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T15:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/306845\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T15:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T15:00:15","slug":"lessons-from-the-last-nuclear-power-plant-in-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/306845\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons from the last nuclear power plant in Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">The boxy metal shell surrounding Torness nuclear power station is painted to blend in with the surrounding sky. Bowing to the dour weather of Scotland\u2019s coast, the designers picked a tepid grey-blue. Construction began in the early Thatcher years and power started flowing in 1988. That still makes it the second-newest (after Sizewell B in Suffolk) of Britain\u2019s working nuclear sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The boxy metal shell surrounding Torness nuclear power station is painted to blend in with the surrounding sky.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5009],"tags":[748,35,4884,712,16,15,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-306845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scotland","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-energy","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114948448216770469","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}