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Any company would be pleased to see its share price jump 20% in a day. Managing this feat while stockmarket indices plummet and sober economists talk earnestly of meltdown is even more impressive. Most noteworthy is that the firm causing the excitement is British Energy, whose eight nuclear power stations (and one coal-fired plant) produce around a sixth of Britain's electricity. On Monday it announced that it was pondering collaboration with other companies-through joint ventures, or perhaps even a takeover-after a weekend of rumours that potential buyers had approached the government about its 35.2% interest in the firm.