Électricité de France (EDF) is confident of British political support to build nuclear reactors in southwest England regardless of who wins a May 7 general election.

A European prize for excellence awarded to a division of the Rehab Group was signed by the group’s former CEO, who denies any conflict of interest.

The progress of the British government’s nuclear power expansion plans was dealt a blow today after experts raised a raft of safety concerns about two proposed reactors.

France has chosen a Normandy coastal town as the site for the first in a new generation of nuclear power plants.