Reports: Ministers considering relaxing planning rules to accelerate small modular reactor rollout

Stuart Stone
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Government set to ease restrictions on where new nuclear plants can be built to enable faster roll out of small reactors, reports claim

Ministers are poised to relax planning rules in an attempt to make it easier to build mini nuclear power plants - known as small modular reactors (SMR) - in support of the government's ambitious clean...

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