The UK government is close to giving the green light to plans for two new Generation III EPR units at the Sizewell C nuclear site in Suffolk, southeast England.
The BBC said it had learned that talks with the Sizewell contractor, France’s sate-controlled utility and nuclear operator EDF, have “intensified” in recent weeks.
The BBC said the details of how new reactors at Sizewell C will be paid for are still being discussed, but government officials are insisting that it remains committed to new nuclear.
This commitment to new nuclear may be included as part of a 10-point government plan to be published in the coming weeks. That plan is expected ahead of a detailed government white paper in late November which will attempt to set out the course of UK energy policy for decades to come.
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