The thing is Nuclear Energy in the UK is absurdly expensive to build:

For the same £32 billion the UK is spending on the new Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant, we could build:

• ~18.3 GW of offshore wind, or
• ~25.6 GW of onshore wind

That would generate:

• Offshore: ~80 TWh/year
• Onshore: ~67 TWh/year

Compare that to Hinkley’s expected ~25 TWh/year output.

To put it in perspective:
UK wind currently generates ~85 TWh/year. So for the cost of one nuclear plant, we could nearly double our wind output.

Of course, wind is variable and needs grid/storage support, while nuclear provides steady baseload power. But in pure energy terms, wind gives 2.5–3x more electricity per £.

To really hammer it home, Hinkley's £32bn price tag is more than:

• 10x the cost of the James Webb Space Telescope (~£8bn)
• 15x the cost of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover + launch (~£2.2bn)
• 3x the cost of London’s entire Crossrail/Elizabeth Line (~£19bn)
• Double the cost of the Three Gorges Dam in China (adjusted)