New Nuclear Power

Part of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy – in the House of Commons at on 11 January 2022.

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Photo of John Spellar John Spellar Labour, Warley

I was disappointed that, in his reply, the Minister did not refer to small modular nuclear reactors, which surely are the future in this sector. Can we take the lesson from the vaccine taskforce that rigorous scientific methods can be combined with speeding up the process and cutting out dead time? Can he convey that message to the regulators so that this world-beating technology can be built in Britain to the benefit of British industry and British workers?