UK pays £100m over nuclear clean-up 'debacle'

New tender process to be launched after regulator cancels existing £6.1bn contract nine years early

Business Secretary Greg Clark
Business Secretary Greg Clark
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The government has paid out nearly £100m in compensation over a nuclear "decommissioning debacle" that will bring an existing £6.1bn clean-up project to an early end, reports The Guardian.

In turn, that means the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority now faces "the daunting task of starting a new tendering process" for 12 nuclear power stations that are being cleaned up and closed down.

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