24 Jun (NucNet): Austria is to officially file a legal complaint in Brussels against state subsidies for the UK’s planned new Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant, the government in Vienna said, according to press reports. “We cannot accept that a technology such as this being portrayed through subsidies as being modern, sustainable and future-oriented,” Chancellor Werner Faymann said after a cabinet meeting. The complaint, which Vienna had already threatened in September, will be filed on Monday, 29 June, the chancellor said. In April 2015, EDF Energy, the UK subsidiary of France’s EDF, said it would reduce the number of staff at the Hinkley Point C site after having completed the preparatory work and awaiting a final investment decision. In February 2015, EDF said it was working hard with the UK government to finalise all agreements on Hinkley Point C and was making “significant progress”.
