Commercial interest in the UK’s baby-nuclear plant programme will wane unless ministers announces the initial results of a long-awaited competition to find the best type of reactor, a committee of peers has warned. The House of Lords science and technology select committee in a report on nuclear research, published yesterday (2 May), expresses disappointment that the government has not kept to its stated timetable for the small modular reactor (SMR) competition.
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