Prime minister Kier Starmer says he is ripping up the rule book to get Britain building mini nuclear power plants.
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The Rolls-Royce SMR will have the capacity to generate up to 470MWe of energy, equivalent to more than 150 onshore wind turbines and enough to power a million homes for 60 yearsReforms to planning are expected to open the way for the construction of a series of small modular reactors (SMRs) to be built across the country.
The government says that it is scrapping the current set list of eight potential sites for SMRs that it inherited from the previous government, meaning that they could potentially be built anywhere in England and Wales.
