Septembre 2010 / Financial Times

GDF Suez pulls out of key nuclear power station

By Peggy Hollinger in Paris

The future for France’s new-generation nuclear technology has been thrown into doubt after it emerged that GDF Suez, the country’s second-biggest utility, is to pull out of the latest European Pressurised Reactor project.

Gérard Mestrallet, GDF Suez chief executive, has written to prime minister François Fillon to inform the government the company would not take part in the 1600MW EPR project at Penly in north-west France.

The move, first reported in Les (…)