EDF's own engineers oppose Hinkley Point nuclear project

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Plans by French energy giant EDF to build two European Pressurised Reactors (EPRs) at the Hinkley Point nuclear power plant in south-west England have already triggered the resignation of the company's finance director, led to opposition from unions and raised doubts from France's financial watchdog. Now, Mediapart can reveal, in an unprecedented move a number of EDF's own engineers have also expressed their deep misgivings about the multi-billion euro project and called for it to be delayed. As Martine Orange reports, the engineers fear the Hinkley Point construction could threaten the group's plans to renew France's own nuclear power stations in the near future.

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France's minister of the economy Emmanuel Macron has stood shoulder-to-shoulder with EDF president Jean-Bernard Lévy over the French energy giant's plans to build two European Pressurised Reactors (EPRs) in Britain. But opposition to the project at the Hinkley Point nuclear power plant in south-west England continues to attract more and more opposition.

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