ER Editor: Nuclear‘s back 100%. Now the UK. Our most recent offering on this —
Nuclear Making A Comeback In US, Europe
Secretary of State for Energy Security, Ed Miliband (2.0 by now), has done something sensible after sounding and acting like a complete idiot within the same portfolio since getting elected in 2024. Popcorn time.
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UK Announces $19.3 Billion Funding For New Nuclear Power Project
Weeks after Germany decided to reverse course and ‘re-embrace’ nuclear power following their supreme idiocy on the matter, the UK government announced on Tuesday that it would invest 14.2 billion pounds (US$19.3 billion) to build a new nuclear plant in the southeast of England.
The move was revealed by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero as part of its broader spending review, which will lay out priorities for the next four years.
The new plant, named Sizewell C, will be located in Suffolk county, and is predicted to create around 10,000 jobs during construction, according to a government statement. Once operational, it will create enough electricity to power roughly 6 million homes.
“We need new nuclear to deliver a golden age of clean energy abundance, because that is the only way to protect family finances, take back control of our energy, and tackle the climate crisis,” said Energy Minister Ed Miliband. “This is the government’s clean energy mission in action, investing in lower bills and good jobs for energy security.”
As the Epoch Times notes further, the UK has also been tapping up new investors to fund the construction of Sizewell C, but no new partners were mentioned in the announcement.
Neither the total cost of construction nor a date for expected completion has been announced.
Sizewell C was originally an EDF Energy project but is now majority-owned by the British government, with EDF Energy a minority shareholder.
EDF Energy is the British arm of Électricité de France (EDF), which is wholly owned by the French state.
The UK government’s stake was 83.8 percent and EDF’s stake was 16.2 percent at the end of December, EDF’s financial results showed in February.
Sizewell C would be just the second new nuclear plant built in Britain in more than 20 years, after another EDF project, Hinkley Point C, which was first announced in 2010.
Hinkley Point C, based in Somerset, southwest England, has been beleaguered by delays and budget overruns and is currently expected to come online in 2029.
Sizewell C would be the third power station built on the site after Sizewell A and Sizewell B, both of which are currently in the process of being decommissioned.
The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero also announced that it had picked Rolls-Royce SMR to build Britain’s first small modular reactors (SMRs).
About 2.5 billion pounds ($3.4 billion) of government funds will be dedicated to the SMR program over the next four years, in a bid to get one of Europe’s first small-scale nuclear industries going.
SMRs are usually around the size of two football fields and composed of parts that can be assembled in a factory, making them quicker and cheaper to build than conventional plants.
The moves by Britain come amid a renewed interest in nuclear power across Europe, sparked by spiraling energy costs due to the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, which is hampering the continent’s supply of natural gas.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in a keynote speech in August 2024 that the European Union needed more nuclear power. (ER: WHAT???? More popcorn.)
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