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EDF Says Time Has Run Out for UK Nuclear Power Station Government Wanted to Keep

May 31, 2022
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EDF Energy, which is 85 percent owned by France, says it is too late to stop the shutdown of the Hinkley Point B nuclear power station in Somerset despite suggestions the British government wanted to keep it going for a few more years. The site is next door to the £25 billion Hinkley Point C…

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UK to Allow Hinkley Reactors Where Cracks Found to Restart

March 17, 2021
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Britain will allow two nuclear reactors at Hinkley Point where cracks were found to resume limited operations ahead of their scheduled closure in 2022, the sector’s regulator said on Wednesday. Operated by France’s EDF, the two reactors at Hinkley Point B power station in Somerset, southwest England, will each be allowed to operate for two…

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