Nuclear Politics

UK To Ease Planning Rules For Nuclear Power Plants In Bid To Put Country ‘Back In Global Race’

By David Dalton
6 February 2025

Gov’t says investors want to build reactors and promises no more ‘delay and obstruction’

UK To Ease Planning Rules For Nuclear Power Plants In Bid To Put Country ‘Back In Global Race’
The two-unit Hinkley Point C is the only nuclear power station under construction in the UK. Courtesy EDF Energy.
The UK is set to ease the rules around where nuclear power plants can be built in a bid to revitalise the sector and put Britain back in the global race for nuclear energy.

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