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Alan Cumming, deputy director of construction and procurement for EDF Energy, told the UK Nuclear Industry Association's annual Energy
Choices conference in London that around 400 engineers and technicians would be recruited for the centre within the next five years.
Mr Cumming added that the company expected to submit a planning
application to build a new nuclear power plant using the EPR design at
Hinkley Point in the UK in the summer of next year. The application
will be submitted to the country's new Infrastructure Planning
Commission. Mr Cumming said the formal opening of the proposed
construction site was also scheduled for the summer of 2010.
Hinkley Point is one of 10 selected sites proposed for nuclear new
build in a National Policy Statement on nuclear announced by the
government last month.
- by John Shepherd
>>Related reports in the NucNet database (available to subscribers)
Sales Process Starts For Land Adjacent To UK Nuclear Sites (World
Nuclear Review No. 46, 28 November 2008)
EDF Completes Purchase Of British Energy (World Nuclear Review No. 2,
9 January 2009)
UK Names 10 Sites As ‘Potentially Suitable’ For New Nuclear By 2025
(News No. 83, 9 November 2009)
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