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UK overturns planning advice and approves Sizewell C nuclear plant. The Government’s independent Planning Inspectorate advised against approving the project, citing concerns about water supplies for the plant and its impact on local habitats. The business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has …

Suffolk County Council says it is “disappointed” that a number of key issues have not been fully resolved before the go-ahead was given today for the Sizewell C nuclear power station. Whilst the council says it has been successful in …

Letter, notifying parties of the Secretary of State’s decision to grant a Development Consent Order for the Sizewell C Project.

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Electronic copies of the decision documentation, including the Secretary of State’s …

A decision on whether to approve the building of a new £20bn nuclear power plant is due later. The government was expected to make an announcement about the application for Sizewell C in Suffolk two weeks ago. Business minister Paul …

Campaigners are calling for further delays to a final decision on whether to give the go ahead for the new Sizewell C nuclear power station until a new Prime Minister is in place. The Government has until July 20 to …

The Nuclear Fuel Fund aims to preserve the UK front-end nuclear fuel cycle capability, to support our ambition to increase civil nuclear deployment to up to 24GW by 2050. The Nuclear Fuel Fund will provide up to £75 million in …

UK’s nuclear regulator has said the licence application for the proposed Sizewell C nuclear power station in Suffolk has met almost all requirements. Giving more details on the application, the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has admitted that it has …

Two issues remain to be resolved before the UK’s Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) can issue a nuclear site licence for the proposed Sizewell C nuclear power plant in Suffolk, England. The first relates to the current ownership of the …

Varrie Blowers unpacks the impacts of the Nuclear Industry (Financing) Act 2022 in BANNG’s Regional Life column for June 2022. Heard the fantasy about constructing an airport in the Thames estuary? And the one about constructing a bridge from Scotland …

The UK Environment Agency (EA) has begun a 12-week public consultation on three environmental permits for the operation of the proposed GBP20 billion ($23.8bn) Sizewell C nuclear power station in Suffolk. In May 2020, NNB Generation Company (SZC) Limited applied …