The government has announced plans to make it easier to build mini nuclear power stations in England and Wales. Energy Minister Michael Shanks said the plans aim to "remove as much red tape and regulation as possible in the nuclear sector". Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Well what we're announcing today is part of our plan for change to deliver the energy future that
00:04we need as a country and we're announcing a whole change to trying to remove as much red tape and
00:10regulation as possible in the nuclear sector to build the next generation of nuclear technology
00:16because of course Britain used to lead the world in nuclear projects but in the last few decades
00:21we've fallen way behind and not built any new nuclear power stations in this country. The next
00:26set of modular reactors are much smaller and can be placed at different places around the UK and
00:32what we're doing today is saying instead of the government designating only eight places in the
00:36country where nuclear can be built that actually we want this to be a developer-led approach where
00:40people look at the demand needs for example around AI and data centres and comes to us with where we
00:46could build these new reactors in the future and that delivers on our energy security on our clean
00:51power objectives but also helps us build the economic growth that we need in the future.