The deal, signed with the British group National Grid, calls for the eventual connection of a new nuclear reactor that could be built next to a reactor already in service in Oldbury, near Gloucester in western England.

"We clearly want to build new nuclear power stations in the UK; we have a shortlist of sites that we're looking at at the moment and this is kind of dotting the i's and crossing the t's" if we decided to build a station at Oldbury, a spokesman for EON UK told AFP.

"But it doesn't mean that we have an application for a new nuclear station at Oldbury," he added.

The British government decided at the start of the year to build new reactors to replace the country's ageing nuclear power facilities in a bid to bolster national energy security.

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