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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Jasper Jolly and Rob Davies

Johnson announces aim for UK to get 25% of electricity from nuclear power

The Sizewell B nuclear power station on the Suffolk coast in England.
Plans for Sizewell are being discussed by Whitehall officials and EDF. Photograph: Michael Brooks/Alamy

Boris Johnson has told nuclear industry bosses that the government wants the UK to get 25% of its electricity from nuclear power, in a move that would signal a significant shift in the country’s energy mix.

Johnson on Monday met executives from major nuclear utilities and technology companies including the UK’s Rolls-Royce, France’s EDF, and the US’s Westinghouse and Bechtel to discuss ways of helping to speed up the development of new nuclear power stations.

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