New Energy
UK’s First New Nuclear Site Since the 1970s Begins Licensing
- Last Energy plans to build microreactors in south Wales
- Site seen generating power for 244,000 homes once online
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The UK’s first new location for a commercial nuclear power plant since the 1970s is undergoing licensing from the country’s regulator, at a time when the government is making it easier to approve new projects.
Last Energy Inc.’s microreactors are set to be built at a site of a former coal plant in south Wales. That would mark the first new site for a commercial reactor to begin licensing since 1978, as all projects since then have been built at locations on or next to sites that have had a plant there, the firm said.