Hinkley nuclear project not impacted by Brexit - minister

A project to build two new nuclear reactors at EDF Energy's Hinkley Point site in Britain will not be influenced by the outcome of Britain's vote last week to leave the European Union, energy minister Andrea Leadsom told lawmakers on Wednesday. "I don't believe the Austrian challenge to Hinkley has any merit ... and I do not believe (the project) will be influenced by the results of the referendum," Leadsom told an energy and climate change committee hearing. Austria has launched legal action ag