If the Government’s promise of a new golden age for nuclear power is to have any weight, they should accept all 47 of the Taskforce’s recommendations at the Budget on Wednesday.

Anything less would show the government is not serious about growth or getting bills down. 4/4

This is indefensible. These types of modifications have added years in construction and billions in costs, costs that ultimately get passed onto consumers in higher bills. 3/4

At a time when Britain's electricity bills are among the world's highest, our regulatory system forced EDF to spend nearly £280,000 per fish protected by the now infamous 'acoustic deterrent'. 2/4

9/ The choice is stark: continue with world-beating costs and stalled projects- or reform boldly, cut through the red tape, and power Britain's future with abundant clean nuclear.

www.britainremade.co.uk/cheapernuclear

8/ Some will call this “lowering standards”.
It isn’t. It’s taking a science-led approach to risk.

Nuclear is safe, clean & reliable. In other countries, it’s affordable too.

Britain can make nuclear cheaper if we change how we regulate, plan & finance.

7/ How do we fix this?

1️⃣ Restore proportionality to regulation
2️⃣ Streamline planning & permits
3️⃣ Unlock private investment in SMRs, especially for AI demand

Our plan, developed with experts at the Universities of Cambridge and Liverpool, has 33 recommendations to fix this

6/ The average Brit gets ~2 mSv of background radiation a year (in Cornwall it’s ~7).

Living near Hinkley Point B adds just 0.02 mSv- equivalent to a weekend in Cornwall or a handful of Brazil nuts.

Modern designs are ultra-safe. Chasing tinier cuts adds cost without benefit.

5/ Regulation is a problem.

Nuclear is already one of the safest forms of energy.

Britain regulates nuclear to ALARP, or “as low as reasonably practicable”. It sounds sensible, but in practice means countless design changes to address tiny, theoretical risks.

4/ So why are we so expensive?

Four big reasons:

1️⃣Planning & permitting
2️⃣Gold-plating
3️⃣Stop-start building
4️⃣No standardisation

3/ Britain is the most expensive place in the world to build nuclear power stations.

Hinkley Point C is expected to cost £46 billion- 6x more per megawatt than equivalent plants in South Korea.

France and Finland have been able to build the same design for around half the cost.

2/ The good news is firms want to build new nuclear plants here.

But turning interest into shovels in the ground and data centres online means making Britain a lower-cost, faster-to-build place.

1/ Britain can’t end gas dependency with renewables alone.

Wind & solar are essential, but scaling them up brings rising intermittency costs: balancing the grid, backup, curtailment.

AI will massively raise baseload demand. We need firm power.

We need nuclear.

Read the full analysis in our latest substack: www.samdumitriu.com/p/labours-15...

What does this planning application data tell us?

The Government are set to be 480,000 homes short of the 1.5 million target by the end of this parliament.

There’s been no meaningful uptick in planning applications since Labour’s election last July: