Hitachi energises UK nuclear future

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The UK's stuttering nuclear renaissance has received a huge boost, with Japanese engineering giant Hitachi taking over plans to build two power plants in a £700 million deal which will create thousands of jobs.


The firm is buying Horizon Nuclear Power - which has the rights to build reactors at Wylfa on Anglesey, North Wales, and Oldbury in Gloucestershire - from its German owners E.ON and RWE npower.
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