A new small nuclear power station is being planned at Trawsfynydd in Snowdonia, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said. Mr Johnson made the announcement in his speech to the Welsh Conservative party conference in Newtown on Friday.
The Prime Minister's announcement comes a month after he said that a new full-size nuclear power station would be built at Wylfa on Anglesey meaning Wales is set to get two new nuclear plants. In his speech Mr Johnson told delegates at Theatr Hafren in Newtown: "I can tell you that we are looking to build a small modular reactor on the site at Trawsfynydd".
Rolls Royce has been developing plans for a new type of small modular nuclear power station. The advantage of the smaller reactors is that they can be built much more quickly and cheaply as the parts can be shipped by road. The site at Trawsfynydd, Gwynedd, was formerly the site of a nuclear power station which became operational in 1965 and was decomissioned in 1991.
