UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on Nuclear Energy Report Net-Zero-Needs-Nuclear A-Roadmap-to-2024 published

Posted: 6th July 2021

The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Nuclear Energy (the guilty listed here: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmallparty/210602/nuclear-energy.htm )   just published their Report “Net-Zero-Needs-Nuclear A-Roadmap-to-2024”  completed in May 2021).

·         Commence legislation for a new financing model for new nuclear projects (by end of 2021).

·         Confirm policy for new UK reactors to utilise fuel manufactured in the UK (end 2021).

·         Agree five-year funding and approach for delivery of an AMR demonstrator (end 2021).

·         National Policy Statement on siting of new build projects, including SMRs and AMRs (early 2022).

·         Establish the policy and legislative framework to enable the UK deployment of fleet of SMRs by the early 2030s (early 2022).

·         Support final investment decision for Sizewell C (autumn 2022).

·         Commit to the next tranche of UKAEA’s STEP fusion programme, including site selection (end 2023).

·         Enact regulatory changes to allow integration of modular reactors with urban and industrial systems, to allow the use of alternative fuels and coolants, and to support fusion energy (March 2024).

·         Commitment to at least one additional gigawatt-scale nuclear power plant, and to enable further Gigawatt-scale development (mid 2024).

Here are some news reports:-

Unite: Ministers need to accelerate plans to invest in UK nuclear sites