What are the barriers and enablers for new nuclear project delivery?
At the Frazer-Nash Consultancy workshop on this topic, held in November 2024, we invited experts from the policy, planning and programme delivery areas to lead interactive discussions with our workshop attendees, which comprised of representatives from government, regulation, supply chain, research institutes, and end users.
Our delegates considered these key opportunities and challenges for the industry:
- The current new nuclear landscape, and a future filled with potential
- Government policy and its impact on new nuclear success - how can the public sector best support the industry to realise its aspirations?
- The role of planning and Development Consent Orders
- To what extent can project and programme delivery impact deployment?
- How do we get there?
If we don’t get the current projects right in the next five years, we will struggle to get public backing for nuclear power projects in the future – this might be our last chance of a true renaissance and for industry to deliver on its potential. We need to persevere within our respective roles and contribute to our shared goal of wanting to see nuclear happen: making it happen, instead of passively assuming that it will.
It was clear that everyone participating in the workshop had the energy and desire to deliver new nuclear, whether it was from the perspective of seeing innovation come to fruition or to power their data centres. As an industry, we often speak about the benefits of nuclear, but there will be no benefits if we do not deliver. We must harness this collective energy, and each do our part to ensure we deliver nuclear successfully, together.
The discussions shone a light on the challenges we are currently facing as an industry, and the strong desire held across the nuclear sector to work together and ensure that new nuclear can succeed and thrive.
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