Adam Sage, Paris
December 9 2016, 12:01am, The Times
The company that designed Britain’s proposed �18 billion nuclear plant is facing a criminal investigation on suspicion of aggravated fraud, forgery and endangering life.
Prosecutors in Paris have opened an inquiry into allegations that a factory owned by Areva, the French nuclear group, has been falsifying safety tests for decades.
The factory has already made one key component for the reactors planned at Hinkley (...)