Keir Starmer unveils plan for large nuclear expansion across England and Wales | Nuclear power
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/06/keir-starmer-unveils-plan-for-large-nuclear-expansion-across-england-and-wales
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Keir Starmer unveils plan for large nuclear expansion across England and Wales | Nuclear power
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/06/keir-starmer-unveils-plan-for-large-nuclear-expansion-across-england-and-wales
Posted by ieya404
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Here’s hoping this goes through as promised – more action and less dicking around.
Thing about any plan that’ll take longer than 5 years to implement is that it runs the risk of a future government simply cancelling it…
That will be nuclear reactors run be French firms not British, he is actively undermining our independence.
I.
Support.
This.
The one thing this government does I agree with.
Great news really, nuclear with a mix of solar / wind / battery storage is the way to go.
I misread the title as Nuclear Explosion and got excited.
Oh well, back to work tomorrow..
It takes up to 8 years to build a Nuclear Power station. A couple more years for organisation and other logistical things. So, say in 12 years time… We might have more Nuclear power and be less reliant on Europe for our power. This is a good thing if they can stick to this.
Oh my god it feels so, SO good to finally have some in charge who sees past the timewasting NIMBY crap. Hopefully we keep up building other clean energy sources. Built by 2032 is an insanely quick turnaround and the technology has come so far this is probably some of the best news I’ve heard in British politics in 14 years.
great news. genuinely needed and if it does anything to get a handle on energy prices it’ll be great.
realistically even chernobyl wasn’t as dangerous as even some hydro accidents. considering that type of a reactor is an inherently cheap design with numerous safety flaws and near identical plants are still running safely to this day. nuclear plants with the 60 odd years of development they’ve seen are perfectly safe and do not need the level of restrictions they have.
considering coal plants in western europe kick out more radiation than nuclear plants there’s no way this is a bad move
NO! What about wind, solar, hydroelectric?!? Why use something as disgusting as Nuclear.. Please someone come and tell me I am wrong about the cost of Nuclear and also how ‘clean’ it is and then also explain how we are doing so well about dealing with nuclear waste from precious nuclear projects..
So there’s three American contenders to build SMRs. Given the pathetic throwing around of American diplomatic weight this week we would be insane to partially entrust our energy future to a US firm.
RR should he awarded a contract on grounds of national security and let the niceties of procurement law be damned.
However, given this government is currently giving away, sorry PAYING a foreign nation to take British strategic territory because human rights lawyers told them my hope aren’t high.
Starmer doing something useful for once. Now let’s make sure that UK business gets the opportunity to develop skills and technology in the building of this infrastructure.
However I have a nagging fear it’s all going to get bogged down in planning nimby nonsense. There are people that will fight tooth and nail to stop an electricity pylon being built, let alone power generation.
What’s the betting there are going to be a lot of surprisingly common discoveries of colonies of rare bats and newts in the next few years?
He’s getting a lot of shit, and I understand people’s frustrations but this is really good news.