The Nuclear Industry Association (NIA) welcomes the opportunity to respond to Department for Energy Security and Net Zero’s ‘National Policy Statement for Nuclear Energy Generation (EN-7)’ consultation.
The NIA is the trade association and representative body for the civil nuclear industry in the UK. We represent more than 300 companies operating across all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle, including the current and prospective operators of nuclear power stations, international designers, and vendors of nuclear power stations, and those engaged in decommissioning, waste management and nuclear liabilities management. Members also include nuclear equipment suppliers, engineering and construction firms, nuclear research organisations, and legal, financial and consultancy companies. Due to the diversity of our membership, our views in this submission will cover high-level, industrywide matters. Our members may choose to make their own detailed submissions.
Executive summary
We strongly welcome the inclusion of Small Modular Reactors and Advanced Modular Reactors in the National Policy Statement for Nuclear Energy Generation, the implementation of a criteria-based approach to siting, and the removal of deployment deadlines from the planning framework for new nuclear. We encourage Government to further review the siting criteria of EN-7 to ensure that the opportunities associated with advanced nuclear technologies (ANTs) can be accommodated and leveraged to support the net zero energy transition.
Please click here to view our response.
Further Information
The NIA is happy to provide more context, or any clarifications desired on the content of our response and to ask our members where appropriate for additional information that may be useful.
Please contact Elisabeth Roden, Policy Analyst for the Nuclear Industry Association, at [email protected] to do this.
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