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Nuclear Power Stations: Gloucestershire

Commons · Question 34010 · Tabled 26 Feb 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero · Official record

Answered 5 Mar 2025

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Asked by Simon Opher

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he will visit the decommissioning power stations at (a) Oldbury and (b) Berkeley (Severn Edge); and if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of (i) deploying Small Modula

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Answered by Michael Shanks, 5 Mar 2025

Great British Nuclear is driving forward its Small Modular Reactor competition and has separately acquired the site at Oldbury-on-Severn. No decisions have yet been taken on deployment of technologies at specific sites but the merits of any projects would...