Keir Starmer waves his magic wand over obvious realities – over rocketing cost, infinite dangers and slow delivery for Small Nuclear Reactors.
by Antinuclear.net on 9th February 2o25 via thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-FZB Telegram https://t.me/thefreeonline/2216
The world gasps at the US Americans swallowing lie after lie from the superb dissimulator Donald Trump, but it might not notice Britain’s “worthy, virtuous, man of the working people”, Keir Starmer, also proclaiming a set of lies.
Starmer has got into a super-confident sort of Trumpian mode as he pronounces ‘Build baby build’.
Yes, Sir Keir is “taking on the blockers” to bring the UK back to a leadership position on building nuclear power. The “blockers” are safety and environmental regulators. A new Nuclear Regulatory Taskforce will be established to speed up and streamline the approval of new reactors. This will report directly to the PM.
For the first time, mini-nuclear power stations will be included in planning rules. Nuclear sites could now be built anywhere across England and Wales, as a list restricting the sites for new reactors will be scrapped. The expiry date on planning rules will be scrapped. A specialist taskforce will lead on making sure nuclear regulation incentivises investment, to deliver new projects more quickly. It will all apply to both the civil and the military nuclear industry.
This has been greeted with joy by X-Energy, EDF, Microsoft, Great British NUclear, the Nuclear Industry Association, Prospect, the Institute of Directors, Laing O’Rourke, Nuclear EMEA at AtkinsRéali, GCHQ, tech UK, newcleo – indeed, all the people who hope to make a financial killing from the UK tax-payer.
Others are less enthused.
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