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UK / New Energy Minister Underlines ‘Absolute Support’ For SMRs, But Less Certain On Wylfa Plans

By David Dalton
26 July 2024

Ed Miliband suggests he wants to keep to small modular reactor deployment timetable set by last government’

New Energy Minister Underlines ‘Absolute Support’ For SMRs, But Less Certain On Wylfa Plans
Ed Miliband said the Labour Party’s manifesto made it clear that the party supports new nuclear.
The new UK Labour minister in charge of energy has underlined his “absolute support” for the small modular reactor (SMR) programme set in motion by the previous government, but expressed less certainty on plans for new build at Wylfa, saying only it is “something that we will certainly be looking at”.

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