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PARIS/LONDON (Reuters) - France's EDF (EDF.PA) remains in the hunt for a partner to build four nuclear reactors in Britain after talks were halted with China's Guangdong Nuclear Power Corporation Holding (CGNPC) GDNCP.UL, sources close to the talks said on Friday.
"They have talked. EDF and CGNPC have a relationship going back many years," one source said. But two other sources close to the discussions confirmed negotiations regarding a British partnership are no longer ongoing.
The Wall Street Journal newspaper reported on Friday that the talks had focused on the state-owned Chinese firm taking over a 20 percent stake in EDF's nuclear new build programme owned by UK firm Centrica (CNA.L).
A spokesman for Centrica said the company continued to be involved in the project.
EDF declined to comment and CGNPC was not available for immediate comment.
CGNPC and EDF along with French reactor maker Areva (AREVA.PA) signed an agreement in November to jointly develop a new type of reactor.
The French government later said it had opened an investigation into a partnership deal which EDF had signed with a Chinese nuclear utility in order to verify whether France's strategic interests were respected.
(Reporting by Dominique Vidalon in Paris, Karolin Schaps, Sophie Sassard and Sarah Young in London, additional reporting by David Standway in Beijing; editing by Jason Neely)
Source: http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/UKBusinessNews/~3/iiEyXVHxMkg/uk-edf-china-idUKBRE90A0Y320130111
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