A failure to build new nuclear power plants could make it difficult to meet goals to cut carbon emissions, MPs have warned.
The Government seemed to be "crossing its fingers" that private firms would deliver reactors on time and budget, despite delays and cost overruns in other countries, the Energy and Climate Change Committee chairman Tim Yeo said.
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