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Sir Keir Starmer will announce on Thursday changes in the planning system intended to accelerate the delivery of new nuclear power plants in the UK.
The British Prime Minister will claim that the planning reforms will “clean the path” to introduce small modular reactors, which are faster to build than existing major reactors.
The earthquake will include the abolition of the list of eight favored places for larger nuclear schemes, which gives developers greater flexibility in which they can build.
Ministers will remove the expiration date on the rules of nuclear planning, so projects are no longer “time”.
They will also publish plans for establishing a new nuclear regulatory working group to monitor the improvement of regulations to help larger companies under the construction of nuclear projects in the UK.
“This country has not built a nuclear power plant for decades, we have failed and left behind,” Starmer said.
“I interrupt it, changing rules to support the builders of this nation.”
Just one new nuclear power plant, Hinkley Point c In Somemerset, it is currently being built in the UK, developed by Edf France. But it is postponed for years and through the budget for billions of pounds.
The project should start to generate in 2029 and cost up to £ 46 billion. This is compared to the initial forecasts from 2016 that it will begin at the end of 2025 and cost £ 18 billion.
Meanwhile, the EDF -and British Government’s plans to build another project in Suffolk in Sizewell They are also behind the schedule because they try to convince institutional investors to commit billions of pounds of private financing.
The government has so far been at their disposal whether they want to be built a third project on Wylfa in Anglesey, despite Last Government Tory buying a site from Japanese developer Hitachi Early last year.
Ministers are already overseeing competition with private companies to obtain state support for the development of small modular reactors in the UK, and they will now get involved in planning rules for the first time.
Despite the overhaul of planning, ministers will insist that they will support British nuclear safety standards.
In September, the Government selected four taxpayers’ support companies for their technology: Rolls-Royce, British FTSE 100 engineer, along with US-owned rivals Holtec Britain and Ge Hitachi and Canadian Westinghouse Electric.
