{"id":49833,"date":"2025-04-25T16:37:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T16:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/49833\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T16:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T16:37:18","slug":"uk-in-talks-to-buy-back-nuclear-sites-from-french-firm-edf-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/49833\/","title":{"rendered":"UK in talks to buy back nuclear sites from French firm EDF \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe need nuclear, we need wind, we need solar, we need batteries \u2026 we need hydrogen, we need carbon capture. And nuclear has a particular role to play in finding clean, stable and reliable power,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018obvious\u2019 sites<\/p>\n<p>All three sites are owned by French firm EDF, a company in which the French state is the sole shareholder, handed over in a deal struck in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>An EDF spokesperson declined to comment on any discussions but said: \u201cEDF would welcome developments that enable ongoing employment opportunities at our sites, once existing stations close. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-1369541374-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6519159\"  \/>Heysham and Hartlepool both include operating nuclear power plants, which are set for decommissioning in stages across 2027 and 2030 respectively. | Ian Forsyth\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our sites have numerous benefits, including a skilled workforce, grid connections and supportive communities that are used to nuclear power and the economic benefits the existing stations bring.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The U.K. has not built a new nuclear power plant since Sizewell B was opened in 1995. The much-delayed Hinkley Point C is at risk of not being completed until 2031, and the government is still weighing up a final investment decision for sister plant Sizewell C.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Great British Nuclear (GBN), the arms-length body set up under the last Conservative government, is overseeing the final stages of the late-running competition to build mini-nukes in the U.K., known as small modular reactors (SMRs).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe need nuclear, we need wind, we need solar, we need batteries \u2026 we need hydrogen, we need&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,2813,1313,1395,2437,1442,17790,5398,3374,35,3975,393,4884,1309,806,1197,2827,6716,809,3739,1144,1303,712,811,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-49833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-carbon","12":"tag-carbon-capture","13":"tag-china","14":"tag-companies","15":"tag-competition","16":"tag-ed-miliband","17":"tag-emissions","18":"tag-employment","19":"tag-energy","20":"tag-energy-security","21":"tag-england","22":"tag-great-britain","23":"tag-hydrogen","24":"tag-industry","25":"tag-investment","26":"tag-jeremy-hunt","27":"tag-marc-ferracci","28":"tag-negotiations","29":"tag-net-zero","30":"tag-northern-ireland","31":"tag-nuclear-power","32":"tag-scotland","33":"tag-security","34":"tag-uk","35":"tag-united-kingdom","36":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114399585513470099","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}