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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Nuclear Power Stations (17 March 2016)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential of small modular reactors as a heat source.

Asked by:
Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru)

Answer

The techno-economic assessment of small modular reactors, which is due to conclude at the end of March at the earliest, will consider applications for SMRs in the UK context including how they could operate within the energy system.


Answered by:
Andrea Leadsom (Conservative)
22 March 2016

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