UK government sets out plans for 'biggest nuclear power expansion in 70 years' | Nuclear power
Ministers hope to build fleet of reactors to meet quarter of electricity demand by 2050 but critics highlight long delays and rising costs
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Ministers hope to build fleet of reactors to meet quarter of electricity demand by 2050 but critics highlight long delays and rising costs
Chris Stark has served as a top Government climate adviser for six years
Explore the key parts of theUK's new Civil Nuclear Roadmap which feeds in to plans to achieve net-zero by 2050 with a quadrupling of nuclear generation capacity planned.
Ministers have launched plans for the biggest expansion of nuclear power in 70 years, including a new power station as big as Hinkley C and Sizewell C.
The Civil Nuclear Roadmap, published on Thursday, includes plans to build a new nuclear plant on the same scale as Hinkley Point and Sizewell C