EDF board member calls for Hinkley Point C project to be postponed
by Terry Macalister and Julia Kollewe from Environment | The Guardian on (#18RKW)
Union-backed director says plans are 'not credible' in new blow to troubled Somerset nuclear power station development
An EDF board member has called for the 18bn Hinkley Point C nuclear power station to be postponed, in the latest sign of discord at the top of the French energy company over the troubled project.
Christian Taxil said a raft of changes to the Somerset reactor scheme agreed over the past three years significantly raised the risk for EDF, while a promise to commission the plant within 72 months of concrete being poured was "not credible".
