Hitachi to abandon £20bn UK nuclear project

Plans for a £20bn nuclear power station at Wyfla in Wales are likely to be scrapped with Hitachi, the Japanese giant bankrolling the programme, set to pull out. At the start of the year Hitachi put the programme on ice because of worries about spiralling costs and the company failing to strike a deal over its funding with the UK Government. The Isle of Anglesey Council, which covers the area where the two-reactor plant was due to be built, is understood to have received written confirmatio