Plans for a new nuclear power station at Wylfa Newydd in Anglesey, north Wales, may still be viable, with developer Horizon Nuclear Power sending two letters to a government minister stating talks with “third parties” are continuing.

Japanese multinational Hitachi announced last year that it was scrapping plans to build two UK Advanced Boiling Water Reactors at the site, blaming the lack of a viable financing structure in an “increasingly severe” post-Covid investment environment.

But Hitachi’s British nuclear subsidiary Horizon has sent two letters to the UK government's business secretary Alok Sharma stating talks with “third parties” are continuing.