Nuclear Power Stations: Construction
(asked on 14th December 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask Her Majesty's Government which of the planned new generation of UK nuclear power stations will be the first to become operational; when this will be; and when the remaining planned nuclear power stations are expected to become operational.
This question was answered on 2nd January 2019
In September 2016, this Government agreed to the first new nuclear power station in a generation at Hinkley Point C. The developer is forecasting that Commercial Operations will commence at Hinkley in 2025. Industry has brought forward proposals for a number of other projects and it is for the developers to set out their timescales.