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NUclear Free Local Authorities media release – for immediate release, 4th April 2017
As Engie becomes the seventh international energy utility to give up on UK
new nuclear build, NFLA say now is the time to move towards a
decentralised, renewable energy alternative policy

The Nuclear Free Local Authorities (NFLA) notes with little surprise
today’s decision by the French energy utility Engie to pull out of the
proposed Sellafield Moorside new nuclear development. This follows
Toshiba’s nuclear subsidiary Westinghouse going into bankruptcy protection
in the United States and its decision that it will not fund new nuclear
reactors at the Moorside site. (1)

Engie follows on from the previous decisions over the past decade of E-on
(Wylfa), RWE Npower (Wylfa), Iberdrola (Moorside), SSE (Moorside),
Centrica (Hinkley Point) and seemingly Toshiba as well (Moorside) who have
pulled out of developing new nuclear reactors in the UK.

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