The incoming Dutch government will back plans for the construction of four new large-scale nuclear power reactors in the Netherlands and will more than triple the government funds earmarked for the new build programme from €4.5bn to €14bn ($4.9bn to $15.2 bn), reports have said.

Silvio Erkens, a member of the centre-right VVD that will be part of the new government, said a tender is already being planned by the caretaker government to choose the technology for the first two large nuclear plants.

The incoming coalition government has an agreement to expand on nuclear new build plans out in place by the outgoing government, which is ruling in a caretaker capacity.