Wylfa named as site for UK's first small modular reactors

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Anglesey site set to host the UK's first SMRs, delivering an estimated 3,000 new jobs to the region

The site of a former nuclear power station on the coast of Anglesey in North Wales has been selected to deliver the UK's first small modular reactor (SMR) nuclear power plant. The Department for Energy...

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