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.
Two building consortiums were expecting to hear the outcome last week, but now do not think the contract will be awarded until 2013, according to trade magazine Construction News. The move comes just weeks after major earthworks to prepare the ground for the new station were delayed and could (…)
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