| EDF buys land next to Hinkley |
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| Monday, 09 June 2008 | |
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EDF Energy has purchased large tracts of land next to its Hinkley nuclear power station in Somerset. The company says it is too early to comment on whether the land could host the first of the next generation of reactors in the UK. The existing plant, near Bridgwater in Somerset, is expected to close in 2016 - but EDF has earmarked land near the site as a possible site to build one of four new reactors it hopes to develop in the UK, between 2017 and 2025. EDF Energy's parent company, EDF, already operates 19 nuclear sites in France. |
