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At present, after a long period in which the Labour government set its face against nuclear, they have now said that a number of new units should be built, in view of the declining North Sea gas production which means the UK will have to import liquefied natural gas. The gas cooled reactor design has been abandoned and new ones will be PWR (or possibly BWR). Only one PWR was built at Sizewell, and the teams that built this have dispersed mostly, with the breaking up of the CEGB (the previous nationalised generating body). The most likely outfit to build new PWR's is the French company EDF with their reactor supplier Areva. However their bid to purchase British Energy, which owns some of the likely sites, has not been finalised. This has government support and probably will go through though not certain. Other suppliers may also join in the bidding, so nothing is certain yet. Talk is of about 8 new units total.
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