LONDON: The Welsh administration has approached Japan’s Hitachi Ltd about acquiring the Horizon nuclear power project in Anglesey and its staff, The Sunday Times reported.
The Labour-led government is understood to have approached the Japanese industrial conglomerate to keep the project alive in a caretaker role until a developer can be found, according to the report.
The Welsh government did not immediately reply to a Reuters request for comment outside of business hours, while a Hitachi spokesman said he could not yet comment on the report.
In September last year, Hitachi said it was scrapping plans to build a nuclear power plant in Britain, after its UK unit Horizon Nuclear Power failed to find private investors or secure sufficient government support for the stalled Wylfa project in Anglesey, Wales.