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United Kingdom: Nuclear power station at Hinkley gets go-ahead as coalition signs off EDF deal

2013-10-20 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Britain is to embark on building the first nuclear power station for two decades on Monday as the coalition hands a multibillion subsidy to France's EDF with help from a state-owned Chinese firm. The two planned pressurised water reactors at Hinkley Point C, Somerset, are the first to start construction in Europe since Japan's Fukushima disaster and the first in the UK since the Sizewell B power station came online in 1995. The new reactors, which will cost 14bn, are due to start operating...

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