Wednesday, October 3, 2012

United Kingdom: British nuclear plans suffer blow as Chinese investors pull out

Guardian: The government's nuclear energy plans were in trouble on Wednesday with Chinese investors withdrawing interest in two projects and local councils postponing a decision on hosting atomic waste storage. Areva, the French nuclear engineering group, confirmed that it had pulled out of the running to buy a stake in Horizon Nuclear Power, the enterprise planning to construct new reactors at Wylfa in Wales and Oldbury in Gloucestershire. Areva said its partner, the state-owned China Guangdong Nuclear...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/oct/03/british-nuclear-china-investors-pull-out
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