Britain's flagship nuclear plant could face years of delays because of demands to protect fish
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Britain's flagship £35billion nuclear power plant could face years of delays in an ongoing row over fish.
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Construction on Hinkley Point C, the UK's first new nuclear power station in more than three decades, began in 2018, but its start date has been repeatedly pushed back.The plant, being built by energy giant EDF, is now embroiled in a row with government quango Natural England over safeguards for fish in the Severn Estuary, from where it would draw water to cool its reactors.
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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say But this would delay the Somerset project by around five years, it is understood.
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Because nuclear power is vital for Net Zero it would throw the nation's carbon reduction targets off course.
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