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John on May 22nd, 2012

Bridgwater College in Somerset has received £2 million from EDF Energy to help students and local people secure new skills, training and jobs for Hinkley Point C and to create a legacy of engineering excellence across the South West. 

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John on May 17th, 2012

Horizon will hold its next Open Surgery at Llangefni’s Communities First Centre on Monday 21 May, at which local people can ask questions about plans for a new nuclear power station at Wylfa.

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NuGen today warmly welcomed news that National Grid has launched a consultation on initial proposals for connecting new, nationally-important energy sources like its Moorside project in West Cumbria.

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John on April 23rd, 2012

NuGen owner GDF Suez warns current policy framework is not enough to drive nuclear investment.

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John on April 17th, 2012

Russia’s state-owned nuclear energy enterprise Rosatom has said it would propose building the Generation III+ PWR 1200-MWe NPP 2006 in the UK.

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John on March 22nd, 2012

NuGen has been granted a Generation Licence by OfGem, marking another step in the company’s development plans to bring a new nuclear power station to West Cumbria.

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John on February 24th, 2012

Horizon Nuclear Power’s first ‘public information surgery’ on plans for a new nuclear power station at Wylfa, Anglesey, UK, could hardly have been better timed.

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John on February 17th, 2012

 EDF has today demonstrated further progress towards plans to build up to four new nuclear plants in the UK, through signing new agreements at the Franco-British Summit in Paris.

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John on February 1st, 2012

The company has signed an agreement with West Somerset Council and a local landowner which will see the energy company providing £30 million to mitigate the impacts of the works to prepare the site for the proposed Hinkley Point C nuclear power station.

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John on January 31st, 2012

Horizon has today announced that it has completed the purchase of land which is key to the development of its proposed new nuclear power station near Oldbury-on-Severn in South Gloucestershire.

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