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British plans for a nuclear renaissance centred on a nuclear reactor in Somerset achieved a breakthrough when a nine-month European Union state aid investigation ended with a call for Brussels to approve the project.

If built, Hinkley would be the first British nuclear reactor since Sizewell B in 1995.

Production at the Arak heavy-water reactor ceases and Iran depletes much of its stockpile of medium-enriched uranium.

However in 1994, the US and North Korea signed an agreement in which Kim Jong-il – the current leader's father – agreed to cease plutonium production, an important by-product in the working of a nuclear reactor.

A commission investigation declared itself "unsure" whether the reactor would resolve the UK's security of supply issues, and was unconvinced that 'diversification' of supplies, on its own, would justify the monies involved.

There was daily wage work to be had at the nearby Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), where a new reactor was being constructed.

Previously, he had worked at the Anglo-Canadian nuclear research team at Chalk River, Ontario, focusing on the world's first nuclear reactor using heavy water as a neutron moderator.

The design assessment of the new European pressurised reactor (EPR) developed by EDF and its nuclear specialist Areva is important, because it is key to determining whether the public accepts the safety of Hinkley.

Hungary has signed a €10bn loan agreement with Russia, under which Russia's state company Rosatom will build two additional reactor blocks at the Hungarian nuclear energy plant in Paks.

In fact the water reactor fuel rods could be salvaged for uranium enrichment purposes, and sure enough, not long after signing the US discovered that the DPRK was doing just that.

A senior inspector at the Finnish nuclear regulator STUK, which has been struggling for much longer to assess an EPR reactor for a domestic plant, says pointedly: "I don't know how they (the ONR) did it so fast".