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CGN interested in Toshiba's NuGen (UK) stake

China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN) is interested in an equity stake in the NuGen site at Moorside in Cumbria (UK).

read more... 21/09/2017

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UK National Grid puts on hold development consent for Moorside nuclear project power line

National Grid suspended the development approval for a proposed electricity line connecting Britain’s transmission network to the Moorside nuclear project in northwest England.

read more... 17/05/2017

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UK’s Moorside nuclear plant worth £10bn thrown into crisis after losing investors

The Moorside power station in Cumbria – considered to be in the nearest future the largest nuclear plant in Britain is thrown into crisis once the French investors left the £10 billion project.

read more... 05/04/2017

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Toshiba to quit its leading role in UK’S Moorside nuclear station

The UK’s plan to build Europe’s largest nuclear power plant could be scrapped after Japan's Toshiba Corp, which is developing the project with France's Engie, admitted it would have to take billions of pounds' worth of write-downs in its nuclear business and said it would scale back its overseas ambitions.

read more... 15/02/2017

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NuGen to defer the Moorside nuclear plant to 2025

The first reactor at the Moorside nuclear plant which NuGen is planning to build in Cumbria, in Great Britain will be delayed until “the end of 2025” and not in 2024 as previously expected.

read more... 20/05/2016

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