The UK Is Betting Big on Nuclear Power

The U.K. is once again backing nuclear power, with plans to develop new large-scale nuclear plants as well as alternative small modular reactors (SMRs) in the coming decades. This is part of a Labour government plan to accelerate the country’s green transition by expanding its clean energy capacity and shifting away from a reliance on fossil fuels.

For decades, the U.K. stopped developing its nuclear energy capacity, due to poor public perception of the energy source, the high costs involved with developing new projects, and a focus on other…