UK prime minister Rishi Sunak has given his strongest hint yet that Wylfa, on the island of Anglesey in north Wales, will be named one of the preferred sites for a new nuclear power station within months.

He called Wylfa a “fantastic site” that could accommodate both small modular reactors (SMRs) and a larger nuclear plant. Sunak said SMRs are “the nuclear technology of the future”.

He said “Wylfa is somewhere that could do both” and the preferred sites would be announced later this year.