11th March 2016
The French state auditor has raised fresh doubts about plans to build the world's most expensive nuclear power plant in Somerset by urging EDF, the energy company, to ask "serious questions" before going ahead. The Cour des Comptes rang alarm bells over the complexity of both funding and carrying out the 18 billion project at Hinkley Point. It urged Paris and EDF, which is 85 per cent owned by the French state, to think hard about whether it should proceed, (…)