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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent

Large-scale nuclear power station planned for Anglesey in Wales

A woman walks her dog on a beach in front of the decommissioned Wylfa nuclear power station on Anglesey
The beach in front of the decommissioned Wylfa nuclear power station on Anglesey, seen in 2019. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters

Ministers have earmarked north Wales as the site of a large-scale nuclear power plant, which is part of plans to resuscitate Britain’s nuclear power ambitions.

Wylfa on Anglesey (Ynys Môn) has been named as the preferred site for the UK’s third major nuclear power plant in a generation, coming after EDF’s Hinkley Point C nuclear plant, which is under construction in Somerset, and its Sizewell C nuclear project planned for Suffolk.

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