Nuclear Power Stations

(asked on 3rd March 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what progress she has made on the type approval of modular nuclear reactors.


Answered by
Andrea Leadsom Portrait
Andrea Leadsom
This question was answered on 9th March 2016

Any nuclear reactor or facility proposed for deployment in the UK will be subject to robust and independent regulatory scrutiny.

Therefore, any small modular reactor design proposed for construction would undergo safety, security and environmental design assessment. A reactor design would only be allowed to progress if the independent regulator was satisfied it was compliant with the UK’s stringent safety standards.

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