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UK Election / Conservatives Promise To Approve ‘Two New Fleets’ Of Small Modular Reactors Within 100 Days

By David Dalton
11 June 2024

Party, lagging to Labour in polls, would also halve time for new nuclear approvals

Conservatives Promise To Approve ‘Two New Fleets’ Of Small Modular Reactors Within 100 Days
Conservative Party leader and prime minister Rishi Sunak has promised to approve the UK’s first small modular reactors.
The British Conservative Party, trailing the opposition Labour Party in polls as the country prepares for a general election on 4 July, has promised to approve two new fleets of small modular reactors within 100 days of the next parliament, if it is re-elected.

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