Brussels, 11/01/2008 (Agence Europe) - After lengthy public debate, on Thursday 10 January, the British government officially approved the construction of a new generation of nuclear power plants in the United Kingdom, which has the West's oldest nuclear installations and where less than 20% of electricity is produced by nuclear plants (compared with almost 80% in France). Announcing the decision to the House of Commons, Secretary of State for Enterprise John Hutton pointed out that this...