The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero said plant at Wylfa would support up to 3,000 jobs in the local economy at the height of construction

Britain’s first mini nuclear power station will be built on Anglesey in North Wales, the Government has confirmed.

The project will be built by publicly owned Great British Energy-Nuclear (GBE-N) and backed by £2.5billion of investment from the Government. The body has also been tasked with identifying potential sites for another large-scale nuclear power plant, similar to those being built at Hinkley Point in Somerset and Sizewell in Suffolk.

Small modular reactors are designed to be installed on site as prefabricated modules, with hopes the technology will be quicker to build than more traditional plants such as Hinkley Point C.

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