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Talks with EDF could lead to energy customers to be charged for construction costs as the Sizewell reactors are being built
(NucNet) The UK government has reignited a contentious debate over over the country’s nuclear energy ambitions by agreeing to restart talks with EDF over plans to build a reactor at Sizewell C in Suffolk.
For years successive conservative governments have lived in a fantasy world that hugely expensive nuclear power stations can be completely financed by the private sector with zero public support including rate guarantees.