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Government backing for Sizewell C plan comes under fire

GREEN groups have condemned the government’s decision to back the “astronomically expensive” Sizewell C nuclear plant.

Business Secretary Grant Shapps, who visited the site in Suffolk on Tuesday, has pledged to invest £700 million of public funding in the power plant, adding the site would generate 10,000 new jobs.  

The plant is a joint endeavour with French energy giant EDF and is expected to take a decade to build at the cost of between £20-£30 billion.

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