The government has signed the £18bn contract with French energy giant EDF for the new Hinkley Point C nuclear power station.
The deal was finalised at a low-key ceremony in London yesterday with officials from the UK, France and China present.
The project has been stop and start over the last few months but was finally given a government go-ahead a few weeks ago. The plant will power nearly six million homes and be the UK’s first new nuclear plant in a generation.
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