The Electricity Supply Board (ESB) is awarded a contract for work on a nuclear plant at Sizewell in England. The Minister for Energy Ray Burke says no Irish state agency should be a party to developing the British nuclear industry.

Report show a scale model of Sizewell Nuclear Plant, England.

Electricity Supply Board (ESB) offices on Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin.

Photograph of Ray Burke, Minister for Energy, who has ordered an investigation into ESB activities in nuclear energy.

Report shows the Sizewell plant.

The reporter is Una O’Hagan.

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