Nuclear Power: Environment Protection

(asked on 7th September 2021) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to encourage green investment in nuclear energy.


Answered by
Anne-Marie Trevelyan Portrait
Anne-Marie Trevelyan
Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 10th September 2021

Nuclear power is a proven technology which currently represents the UK’s second largest provider of low-carbon electricity.

On 9 November 2020, we announced we would develop a UK Green Taxonomy, which will define those economic activities that can be considered to be environmentally sustainable.

We will be discussing the evidence supporting nuclear energy’s inclusion in the UK’s Green Taxonomy with the newly established Energy Working Group, and the Working Group’s feedback will help inform our decision on including nuclear in the taxonomy.

The government will then consult on draft Technical Screening Criteria in the Green Taxonomy ahead of finalising the Taxonomy.

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