Hitachi to suspend all work on UK nuclear plant

Funding deadlock looks set to sink Japan's last overseas nuclear project

20190111 HItachi British nuclear plant

Hitachi's board is expected to suspend all work on new nuclear reactors on the Welsh island of Anglesey, where this Wylfa power station is located. (Getty Images)

Nikkei staff writers

TOKYO -- Hitachi plans to put a U.K. nuclear power project on hold as negotiations with the British government over funding hit an impasse, all but closing the book on Tokyo's vision for nuclear infrastructure exports.

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