Sir Kerr Starmer pledged to “build children”, as he announced plans to facilitate the construction of miniature nuclear power plants in England and Wales.
Prime Minister BBC told that the government will work “on blockers” and change planning rules so that new reactors can be built in more parts of the country.
Sir Kerr said that he wants the country to return to being a “world leaders on nuclear weapons”, which helps to create thousands of high skilled functions and increase economic growth.
The unions and business groups welcomed this step, but some environmental advocates criticized the government, saying that it “swallowed the full nuclear industry.”
Currently, nuclear power plants can be slow to build in the UK – the transition from planning to “energy” can take nearly 20 years.
Speaking on a visit to the National Nuclear Laboratory in the United Kingdom in Lancashire, Sir Kerr said that the process was very long and that the changes announced by the government would accelerate it.
Chris Masson was asked from the BBC whether “building a brown child” is his slogan like “drilling exercises” for US President Donald Trump, Sir Kerr said: “I say build the child. I say we will face blockers so that we can build.”
He said that the government had already changed the rules to allow wild wind farms, and was now working to ensure “we can quickly advance nuclear weapons.”
The Prime Minister said whether people living near nuclear infrastructure could get money from their electricity bills, while this was not part of the announcement that the government already supported the idea of the benefits of local communities that host energy infrastructure.
In the nineties, nuclear energy was born about 25 % of electricity in the UK, but this number decreased to about 15 %, with no new power plants since then and many of the aging reactors in the country that were stopped over the next decade.
Small nuclear power plants – or small standard reactors (SMRS) – smaller and cheaper than traditional nuclear power plants, produces much lower energy.
However, while there are about 80 different designs under development worldwide, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency, this concept has not yet been proven commercial.
The plans announced on Thursday will be included in the first time that SMRS is inserted into the planning rules. A list of the only places that can be built a nuclear reactor – consisting of only eight sites – will also be created.
Sir Kerr said that the plans will improve the country’s energy security by increasing the saving of clean local energy.
He added that Britain was “held hostage” by Russian President Vladimir Putin for “a very long”, which led to the high energy prices in his whims.
The process of choosing to reduce the rules began around the location of the construction of nuclear reactors under the governorate of Rishi Sonak, with a consultation in January 2024.
The ministers said that Britain is considered one of the most expensive countries in the world to build nuclear energy, and a new nuclear organizational business squad will be created to accelerate the approval of the new reactor designs and the match line how developers deal with the organizers.
Conservative Energy Minister Andrew Boy said that the Labor Party “in a timely manner” has followed the progress of his party in realizing the benefits of “stable, reliable and impossible nuclear force.”
But Doug Bar, the director of politics at Greenpeace UK, claimed that the government was not applied “as much as the cash audit or a request to spray evidence.”
“He swallowed the work government [the] He said that the nuclear industry is all revolving, “adding:” It is presented as real things that are just an optimistic guess of the cost of the small nuclear reactor, and the speed of delivery and safety. “
While the total cost of nuclear energy is comparable to other forms of energy, nuclear plants are very expensive.
The president of the Nuclear Industry Association, Tom Grerarik, said that the changes will give investors certainty and enable them to continue building new factories.
Gary Smith, the Secretary -General of GMB, said that the union has repeatedly said, “There can be no zero net without a new nuclear mistake.”
The previous conservative government gave the green light to a new nuclear reactor on the coast of Suffolk – Sezuel C – in 2022.
The new Labor Party government has adhered to an additional 2.7 billion pounds of the project in October, but the final decision on its future is not to come until the spending review later this year.
Two new nuclear reactors are also built in Hinkley Point C in Sumrest, which is scheduled to open in 2030.