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GDF Suez, Toshiba to go ahead with Europe's biggest nuclear power project in UK
LONDON: Japan's Toshiba and France's GDF Suez will go ahead with plans to develop Europe's largest nuclear power project in northwest England, after completing the deal, their joint venture said on Monday.
The 3.4 gigawatt project will provide nearly 7 per cent of Britain's projected electricity needs and create up to 21,000 jobs, NuGeneration Ltd (NuGen), the joint venture, said.
It plans to start operating its first new nuclear reactor at the Moorside site near Sellafield in west Cumbria, England in 2024.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/business/gdf-suez-toshiba-to-go-ahead-with-europes-biggest-nuclear-power-project-in-uk/articleshow/37521419.cms
The 3.4 gigawatt project will provide nearly 7 per cent of Britain's projected electricity needs and create up to 21,000 jobs, NuGeneration Ltd (NuGen), the joint venture, said.
It plans to start operating its first new nuclear reactor at the Moorside site near Sellafield in west Cumbria, England in 2024.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/business/gdf-suez-toshiba-to-go-ahead-with-europes-biggest-nuclear-power-project-in-uk/articleshow/37521419.cms
nearly 7 per cent of Britain's projected electricity needs
Put another way... that's more generation from that one plant than all of the UK's wind-powered generation last year combined.
