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ANALYSIS: UK nuclear ambitions wavering amid deepening policy paralysis
Publication date: 03 May 2017
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London’s insistence that the UK must quit the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) upon exiting the EU has brought into sharp relief the escalating challenge of realising a new generation of large-scale nuclear reactors in the 2020s – raising the prospect of alternative sources filling the void.
Two influential reports released this week – one from the House of Lords, the other from the Commons Committee on Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) – highlight the widening gulf between the UK’s nuclear aspirations and the reality of maintaining atomic energy at the heart of the power mix.