Officials of the European Union are soon to probe the legality of U.K. government guarantees to the private-sector developer of Britain's first nuclear powerplant since the mid-1990s.
While the EU investigates whether the guarantees comply with its state aid rules, the French-led developer of the three-reactor, 3,300-MW Hinkley Point C plant already has cleared its 180-hectare site in west England and spent hundreds of million of dollars on associated infrastructure.