Energy consortium buys land at Sellafield

Plans to build a new nuclear power station at Sellafield were advanced today after a consortium of energy firms bought land earmarked for the development.

Scottish & Southern Energy (SSE), along with French firm GDF Suez and Scottish Power’s Spanish owner Iberdrola, will pay at least £70m (€78m) for the new site, according to Britain's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA).