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Planned Hinkley Point nuclear power station under fire from energy industry

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  • Nils Pratley and Sean Farrell, the Guardian
  • 10 August 2015
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Energy analyst says that for same price as Hinkley Point C, providing 3,200MW of capacity, almost 50,000MW of gas-fired power capacity could be built

Hinkley Point, the planned £24.5bn nuclear power station in Somerset, is under intensifying criticism from the energy industry and the City, even as the government prepares to give the final go-ahead for...

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