The Grauniad wrote:Hitachi buys right to build next generation of British nuclear plants
Hitachi signs £700m deal to buy Horizon project from German owners, paving the way for four to six new nuclear stations
... Japanese buying up Britain's nuclear industry from the Germans... I suspect it's all part of a cunning British plan to harvest low-carbon energy from the WW2 veterans spinning in their graves...
The future of low-carbon energy in the UK became a little clearer on Tuesday when a new player entered the nuclear race and the government published a shortlist of four potential carbon capture and storage projects that will compete for funding.
The Japanese industrial company Hitachi has agreed to buy the nuclear consortium Horizon, a former project of the German utilities RWE and E.ON, which they put up for sale when they decided to bow out of UK nuclear energy in March.
Hitachi, which faces a nuclear shutdown in its home market after the Fukushima incident last year, will pay £700m and hopes to construct up to four nuclear reactors across the country. Horizon plans new reactors at Wylfa on Anglesey, north Wales, and Oldbury in Gloucestershire.
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