The UK Government is being urged to check the possibility of extending the lives of power stations after warnings closing seven sites by 2028 will “significantly reduce” output with no immediate replacement except relying on imports. Scotland currently has only one nuclear power station, the Torness plant in East Lothian, after the Hunterston B site in North Ayrshire closed in January. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said decommissioning dates of power stations were clear decades ago. It said in a report that the terms of the 2009 sale of seven nuclear power stations to EDF Energy “placed a disproportionate amount of risk for meeting future decommissioning costs on the taxpayer.”
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