The UK government is expected to make a number of nuclear sites currently up for auction more attractive to buyers by including assets owned by British Energy.

The move would help to ally fears that the eventual buyer of BE will have total control of the country’s nuclear power industry, which has been revitalized after the government sanctioned the building of a new fleet of stations.

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), which owns 18 sites, including two with operational reactors, announced last month its assets were now up for sale.

Posted: 04|14|08 at 9:04 am. Filed under: UK News.