Nuclear renaissance under threat

Centrica, the only British company in the running to build a new generation of atomic power plants, has threatened to pull out in April 2012 due to uncertainty over the UK government’s energy policy – a move that could imperil the country’s nuclear renaissance.

Centrica joined a growing number of energy companies that were cooling on nuclear power, a process that accelerated after the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan. A few weeks earlier, two German utilities, Eon and RWE, had announced they were selling their joint venture to build atomic power plants in Britain.

ESO: Background information: Setback for UK nuclear power plans http://www.europeansources.info/record/setback-for-uk-nuclear-power-plans/

World Nuclear Association: Nuclear Power in the United Kingdom http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf84.html

Wikipedia: Nuclear power in the United Kingdom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_the_United_Kingdom

BBC News: Fueling the future http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/guides/456900/456932/html/nn1page1.stm

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