Wylfa Newydd

The company behind the suspended proposals to develop a nuclear power project on Anglesey involving two Hitachi-GE reactors has poured cold water on media speculation that its Wylfa Newydd site is in the running to host a Rolls-Royce mini nuclear plant – a so-called small modular reactor.

Chair of the UK Parliament’s Welsh Affairs Committee David T C Davies has accused the UK Government of a ‘lacklustre’ response to the MPs’ report on Hitachi’s suspension of work on the proposed nuclear plant on Anglesey – its Wylfa Newydd project.

MPs have called on the UK and Welsh governments to consider a range of low-carbon energy projects in north-west Wales following the suspension of work on the Wylfa Newydd nuclear power station.

Preconstruction preparation work for a proposed £12 billion nuclear power station on the Isle of Anglesey has ground to a halt now that Welsh ministers have called in the scheme. The county council had approved the scheme.