US nuclear company Westinghouse has confirmed its parent company Toshiba has agreed to buy a 60 percent share in the NuGen Moorside project in Cumbria.
The move signals the company’s intent to move forward with the AP1000 new-build project, which could create thousands of new jobs at the site and in the centre’s UK manufacturing supply chain. The agreement provides that three Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear reactors with a combined capacity of 3.4 GW will be built in the UK, with…
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