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 Point (…)