Committees

Delivering nuclear power

Inquiry

Due to rising fuel prices, securing the UK’s energy supply is currently a top priority for the Government and is of great interest to the public. The Government’s Energy Security Strategy, published in April 2022, emphasised that nuclear power would play a key part in supplying the UK with baseload electricity, however there is currently great uncertainty about how quickly new nuclear power plants can be built, when fusion technologies might be available and what the costs of these large infrastructure projects will be.

The Committee will examine the Government’s approach to developing new nuclear power.

This inquiry is no longer accepting evidence

The deadline for submissions was 11:59pm on 30 September 2022.

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Past events

Wednesday 18 January 2023
9:20am Private
9:30am Public
Delivering nuclear power - Oral evidence 18 January 2023
9:30am
  • Simon Bowen (Industry Adviser at Great British Nuclear)
10:00am
  • Mark Foy (Chief Executive & Chief Nuclear Inspector at Office for Nuclear Regulation)
10:30am
  • David Peattie (Chief Executive Officer at Nuclear Decommissioning Authority)
11:00am
  • Rt Hon Graham Stuart MP (Minister for Energy and Climate at Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy)
  • Declan Burke (Director, Nuclear Projects & Development at Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy)
The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House
Wednesday 14 December 2022
9:00am Private
9:30am Public
Delivering nuclear power - Oral evidence 14 December 2022
9:30am
  • Dr Robin Taylor (Senior Research Fellow at National Nuclear Laboratory)
  • Professor Claire Corkhill (Member at Committee on Radioactive Waste Management)
  • Professor Katherine Morris (Lead for Nuclear Environment and Waste Theme at Dalton Nuclear Institute)
10:30am
  • Claes Thegerström (Former President at Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Co)
  • Janne Mokka (President and CEO at Posiva Oy)
11:00am
  • Clive Nixon (Group Chief Nuclear Strategy Officer at Nuclear Decommissioning Authority)
  • Corhyn Parr (Chief Executive Officer at Nuclear Waste Services)
Room 6, Palace of Westminster
Wednesday 7 December 2022
9:20am Private
9:30am Public
Oral evidence session 7 December 2022
R&D Statistics - Oral evidence
9:30am
  • Mike Keoghan (Deputy National Statistician for Economic, Social and Environmental Statistics at Office for National Statistics)
  • Darren Morgan (Director of Economic Statistics Production and Analysis at Office for National Statistics)
10:15am
  • Chris McDonald (Policy Chair for Innovation and Enterprise at Federation of Small Businesses)
  • Stian Westlake (Chief Executive at Royal Statistical Society)
Delivering nuclear power - Oral evidence
11:00am
  • Josh Buckland (Partner at Flint Global)
  • Dr Fiona Rayment OBE (Chief Scientific Officer at National Nuclear Laboratory)
Room 6, Palace of Westminster
Wednesday 23 November 2022
9:20am Private
9:30am Public
Delivering nuclear power - Oral evidence 23 November 2022
9:30am
  • Gethin Jenkins (Head of Safety and Licensing at Last Energy)
  • Tom Samson (CEO at Rolls-Royce SMR)
10:15am
  • John Eldridge (Principal Engineer at U-Battery)
  • Dr Fiona Rayment OBE (Chief Scientific Officer at National Nuclear Laboratory)
  • Dr Ian Scott (Chief Scientist at MoltexFLEX Limited)
11:00am
  • Tim Abram (Westinghouse Chair in Nuclear Fuel Technology at University of Manchester)
  • Laurent Odeh (Chief Commercial Officer at Urenco)
Room 6, Palace of Westminster

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