Juin 2010 / Guardian.co.uk

EDF ran secret lobbying campaign to reduce nuclear waste disposal levy

Reactors builder won big concessions on key issues

Rethink on costs is in effect a subsidy, says Greenpeace

The nuclear industry is being offered what campaigners claim is a taxpayer subsidy on the disposal costs of waste from new reactors following a secret lobbying campaign, the Guardian has learned.

The revelation will put further scrutiny on the new government’s promise that there will be no subsidy for nuclear power. Liberal Democrat Chris Huhne, the new energy and climate (...)