TOKYO -- Hitachi is having difficulty persuading Japanese companies to share the burden of building a nuclear power plant in the U.K., raising the specter of a withdrawal from the project worth more than 3 trillion yen ($26.5 billion).
Clouds hang over $26bn project as Tepco and others reluctant to chip in

Hitachi group workers inside a Japanese nuclear plant. The company solicited Japanese power companies to support building a U.K. nuclear plant, but has yet to raise the funding needed.
TOKYO -- Hitachi is having difficulty persuading Japanese companies to share the burden of building a nuclear power plant in the U.K., raising the specter of a withdrawal from the project worth more than 3 trillion yen ($26.5 billion).