Legal challenge threatens UK's new nuclear plans

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Campaign group highlights nuclear industry subsidies it believes are in breach of EU rules

The European Commission could prevent new nuclear plants being built in the UK if it upholds a complaint over alleged unfair subsidies submitted to Brussels by a pro-renewables campaign group. The Energy...

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