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Topic: Times Article
Posted by: Claire Moran
Date/Time: 16/10/15 17:11:00

As much as they will let me copy and paste from the online edition and I don't have time to key in the whole article from the print edition:-

Nuclear deal with China is threat to UK security

Sean O’Neill, Deborah Haynes and Robin Pagnamenta
Last updated at 12:01AM, October 16 2015

Senior military and intelligence figures have warned ministers that plans to give China a big stake in Britain’s nuclear power industry pose a threat to national security, The Times has learnt.

George Osborne, the chancellor, hopes to mark President Xi Jinping’s visit to Britain next week by finalising multi¬billion-pound deals for Chinese state-owned companies to help to build two nuclear power plants. If agreed, China could then design and build a reactor using its own technology at Bradwell on the Essex coast.

Giving China such influence within national infrastructure is causing alarm in security circles. Senior figures have accused the

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