France and Britain announced plans to strengthen bilateral cooperation in nuclear safety and welcomed a growing partnership between France's Areva and Britain's Rolls Royce to develop nuclear plants in the UK and elsewhere.
Areva on Friday signed a £100m (€120m) deal with Rolls Royce to order equipment and engineering services for the construction of Britain's next new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point in Somerset, spearheaded by Areva partner EDF. The contract could extend to £400m (€480m) if EDF plans to go ahead with its proposed four new nuclear reactors in Britain.
A project that has been announce is to increase the electricity transmission between the two countries via a new cable of up to 4,000 MW, compared with a capacity of 2,000 MW on the existing one. The project would link up with a tidal-powered energy project located in waters off the Channel Islands.
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