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Keir wins £100m nuclear contract
British construction group Kier has won a £100m contract from France’s EDF to prepare the ground for construction of a new nuclear power station in the west of England.
Kier said in a statement on Monday that the contract to carry out site works for the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station, which is due to provide 6 percent of Britain’s energy needs, would create 350 jobs.
France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy and Prime Minister David Cameron last week used a summit in Paris to unveil contracts worth £500m that will see EDF, Areva and Rolls-Royce toco-operate in developing new nuclear power plants in Britain.