On 17 January 2019, the Japanese company Hitachi announced it was suspending work on Oldbury in Gloucestershire as well as Wylfa Newydd on Anglesey. There is more on Hitachi’s suspension of Wylfa and Oldbury in nuClear News No.114
On 16th September 2020, Hitachi confirmed that it will “end business operations on the nuclear power plant construction project in the United Kingdom“.
Construction was not expected to begin until the late 2020s or early 2030s.