It is great news that the Government has today announced the biggest expansion of nuclear power for 70 years to create jobs, reduce bills and strengthen Britain’s energy security.
The new roadmap sets out how UK will increase nuclear generation by up to 4 times to 24GW by 2050.
Of course nuclear is also much kinder on land use, with a small modular reactor needing just two football pitches of land to produce enough power for a million homes, whilst inefficient solar needs 2,000 acres of land to power just 50,000 homes - bringing with it the destruction of our countryside and taking away valuable agricultural land damaging our domestic food security. A point Greg Smith MP put to the Minister. Greg will continue to fight for common sense and solutions like nuclear over solar land grabs.
Read more about the Civil Nuclear Roadmap here.
