Secret government papers show taxpayers will pick up costs of Hinkley nuclear waste storage

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Documents show steps Whitehall took to reassure French energy firm EDF and Chinese investors

Taxpayers will pick up the bill should the cost of storing radioactive waste produced by Britain's newest nuclear power station soar, according to confidential documents which the government has battled...

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