Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the article Location, location, location: finding sites for nuclear power plants by Professor Adrian Bull, published by the University of Manchester on 13 March 2023, if his Department will work with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority to adapt their clean-up mission of nuclear decommissioning sites to take account of the need for substantial new nuclear capability.

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has already been providing support to nuclear power developers who are interested in the potential for using the NDA land estate to deploy new nuclear reactors and has signed memorandums of understanding with Rolls Royce and Cwmni Egino in relation to this. They also work with other sectors interested in their land. This work is consistent with NDA’s mission to clean up the UK’s nuclear legacy sites safely, securely and cost-effectively, in order to release sites for other uses.