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...The 965MW Hinkley Point B plant in Somerset is due to enter decommissioning from July this year....
...“Further advances in technology will deliver even greater reductions in future auctions,” predicted Keith Anderson, chief corporate officer at ScottishPower....
...“The credibility of independent reviews rests on the government making a decision on the back of Hendry,” said Keith Clarke, chairman of Tidal Lagoon Power, the company behind the Swansea scheme....
...The government needs British contractors to help deliver key infrastructure projects such as London’s new super sewer and Hinkley Point....
...Green Party MEP Keith Taylor said the move “looks like an act of climate sabotage” while Friends of the Earth described it as “shocking”....
...Point break The FT’s Neil Collins wants the new UK prime minister to stop faffing with “vanity projects” like the proposed Hinkley Point power station....
...While the government threw the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station project open to the markets, it then had to guarantee above-market prices for 35 years in order to convince the French state-owned EDF...
...It was supposed to be the first of a new fleet of PWRs, to be followed by Hinkley Point C in Somerset, and Sizewell C....
...“The challenge you’ve got is there are already existing supply chains for these designs,” says Keith Cochrane, chief executive of Weir Group, which supplies various types of valves to civil nuclear installations...
...Keith Taylor, the Green MEP for south-east England, thinks the government was right to exclude Dungeness, adding: “We don’t think that nuclear power is the answer to our energy needs.”...
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