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Davey: New nuclear will learn from mistakes of the past

02 March 2012 •

Government reaffirms commitment to nuclear build programme as MacKerron report highlights scale of nuclear liabilities

Ed Davey has vowed the costs of the UK's new nuclear build programme will not be passed on to future taxpayers, after a government-backed report highlighted the huge scale of the country's current nuclear...

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