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Sir Keir Starrer will announce changes to the planning system on Thursday to speed up the provision of new nuclear power plants in Great Britain.
The British Prime Minister will claim that the planning reforms are a way for the introduction of small modular reactors that are faster than existing larger reactors, “make one way”.
The shower includes the scrap of a list of eight preferred locations for larger atomic schemes that give developers more flexibility where they can build.
The ministers remove the expiry date of the nuclear planning rules, so that projects are no longer “defined”.
You will also announce plans to set up a new task force for nuclear regulation in order to monitor the improvements of the regulations to build more companies in Great Britain Nuclear projects.
“This country has not built nuclear power plant for decades, we were disappointed and left behind,” Starrer says.
“I use this and change the rules to support the builders of this nation.”
Just a new nuclear power plant, Hinkley Point C In Somerset, there is currently being built in Great Britain and developed by Edf from France. But it is delayed by years and by the budget by billions of pounds.
The project is scheduled to start in 2029 at the earliest and cost up to 46 billion GBP. This corresponds to the first forecasts from 2016 that it would start at the end of 2025 and cost 18 billion GBP.
In the meantime, the plans of EDF and the British government to build a second project in Suffolk Size are also behind the schedule when you try to convince institutional investors to commit billions of pounds of private means.
So far, the government has significantly faced whether a third project despite the Last Tory government buys the location from the Japanese developer Hitachi At the beginning of last year.
The ministers already monitor a competition for private companies to gain government support in order to develop small modular reactors in Great Britain and are now being included in the planning rules for the first time.
Despite the planning overhaul, the ministers will insist on maintaining the nuclear security standards of the UK.
In September, the government selected four companies to besides the British engineer of Rolls-Royce, the FTSE 100-engineer, in addition to competitors Holtec Britain and GE Hitachi in the USA and in Canadian Westinghouse Electric.
