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Engineering teams use the world’s largest crane – Big Carl – to lift a 245-tonne steel dome onto Hinkley Point C’s first reactor building, at the nuclear power station construction site in Bridgwater, Somerset on December 15, 2023. (Photo by Ben Birchall/PA Images via Getty Images)

UK unveils plans for ‘biggest nuclear power expansion in 70 years’

The government says it is committed to the 2050 net zero target but announced last summer it will issue ‘hundreds’ of new oil and gas licences in the North Sea

  • Des Erasmus
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