Reports: EDF delays Hinkley Point plant to 2021

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Building contracts expected this week may not be awarded until 2013, pushing back new nuclear plant by up to four years

EDF has reportedly put on hold a £1.2bn civil engineering contract for a new nuclear station at Hinkley Point in Somerset, heaping more problems on the government's plans for a fleet of new reactors...

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