MPs: UK needs "plan B" if new nuclear plans falter

Jessica Shankleman
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Energy and Climate Change Committee finds delivering 16GW of new nuclear capacity by 2025 is at best ambitious and at worst unrealistic

The government must stop "crossing its fingers" that a new fleet of nuclear power stations will be built over the next decade, and create a plan B to ensure it will be able to meet its climate change targets...

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