Huhne backs new nuclear by 2018

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Payment will have to come from private pockets

Energy Secretary Chris Huhne backed an aggressively timetabled nuclear building programme yesterday for the first time. Although mention of nuclear power is conspicuously absent from DECC’s draft structural...

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