Sir Keir Starmer has revealed plans to make it easier to build small nuclear power plants in England and Wales in an effort to boost economic growth. The prime minister described the plans as "long overdue" as he revealed the plan will create thousands of highly skilled jobs. 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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00:00We in the UK used to be leaders when it came to nuclear, the first, in 1956, the first nuclear power station.
00:09And then, if you can believe it, 21 reactors in less than 10 years.
00:14That is an incredible part of our history as a nuclear nation.
00:20My frustration, and possibly yours, is that that all then slowed down in the last 15 years or so.
00:26It's ground almost to a halt with this sense that nuclear isn't even part of the mix for the future.
00:32And I think we've lost opportunities there. I think it's cost us as a nation.
00:36And that's what we're turning around.
00:38You, I hope, will have seen some of the material we're putting out today, the statement we're making today.
00:43A really important statement, the first national statement since 2011.
00:47Seems to me it's long overdue, but really ambitious.
00:51Which means that we're going for innovation, technology, small modular, which I think will be a huge part of the future that you will all be working on.
01:01And, of course, making it more available in different places.
01:05As you know, there's only eight sites at the moment where we could develop from today onwards.
01:10Many other sites could come forward, but the potential for that is huge.