EDF calls on UK to declare nuclear need / EDF reveals strategy for UK nuclear expansion

Report of a FT interview with Pierre Gadonneix, EDF Chief Executive. He said that the United Kingdom government must declare a national need for new nuclear power stations by the end of 2009 if EDF is to launch its first new generation reactor in the UK by 2017, following its takeover of British Energy

ESO: Background information: EU to rule on EDF’s British Energy takeover http://www.europeansources.info/record/eu-to-rule-on-edfs-british-energy-takeover/

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