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Protesters picketed the entrance of the nuclear new build forum at Whitehall in London on April 20th: https://southwestagainstnuclear.wordpress.com/2016/04/20/energy-minister-and-delegates-challenged-at-nuclear-new-build-conference-in-london/

While a legal opinion warns that the French Government Plan to “Subsidise EDF” could be illegal, as discussed further below, state-owned EDF’s existence outside of France is unfair and should be illegal. No one appears to be addressing the obvious that the very existence of AREVA, EDF, Rosatom and China General Nuclear Power Corporation and their subsidiairies – all state owned nuclear behemoths which act as international corporations – comprises unfair trade and business practices. If France wants to have state-owned utilities within France, Russia within Russia, and China within China, then that should be their right, and it can be under their parliamentary control, responsive to their taxpayers. However, to let AREVA, EDF, Rosatom, and now China General Nuclear Power to prance around the world pretending to be corporations when they…