Hitachi abandons UK nuclear power station projects

Horizon Nuclear Ability will quit building two British isles projects pursuing a determination by Hitachi to pull out of the plan.

The decision to abandon creating new ability stations at Wylfa Newydd on Anglesey and at Oldbury on Severn, in South Gloucestershire, promotions a large blow to the nuclear sector and hopes of creating hundreds of new positions.

Hitachi announced it will conclusion business functions on the nuclear ability plant design undertaking at Wylfa, which was suspended in January 2019.

The Japanese firm stated: “Hitachi made this determination offered that twenty months have passed because the suspension, and the investment environment has become increasingly critical due to the affect of Covid-19.”

Horizon chief executive Duncan Hawthorne stated: “I realize this announcement will be disappointing for our many supporters who had hoped to see our undertaking as a result of to completion. Wylfa Newydd on Anglesey and Oldbury on Severn are hugely desirable sites for new nuclear develop. We will do our utmost to aid the prospective customers for growth.”

Tom Greatrex, chief executive of the Nuclear Industry Association, stated: “Wylfa is possibly the very best web-site in the British isles for new nuclear ability, and has potent neighborhood and stakeholder aid.

“It is imperative that a way ahead is identified for the web-site, to supply hundreds of positions, hundreds of apprenticeships and tens of millions of lbs of investment into an economic improve for the area although providing secure, trusted and very low-carbon ability to underpin the UK’s transition to web zero.”