Select Committee · Energy Security and Net Zero Committee

Revisiting the nuclear roadmap

Status: Open Opened: 20 Feb 2025

The previous Government published Civil Nuclear: Roadmap to 2050 in January 2024. The roadmap committed to building a further large-scale reactor; delivering 3-7GW more of nuclear power every five years from 2030-2044; reaching 24GW of nuclear power on the grid by 2050 and developing government policy to support advanced nuclear technologies Like Small Modular Reactors. …

Oral evidence sessions

5 sessions
Date Witnesses
27 Apr 2026 Lord Vallance · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, Sam White · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero View ↗
22 Apr 2026 Andy Mayall · Environment Agency, Dr Gareth Headdock · United Kingdom National Nuclear Laboratory (UKNNL), Mustafa Latif-Aramesh · Nuclear Regulatory Taskforce, Paul Fyfe · Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR), Simon Bowen · Great British Energy – Nuclear View ↗
15 Apr 2026 Alastair Evans · Rolls Royce SMR, Leon Flexman · X-energy, Vanessa Jakovich · Freshfields View ↗
25 Feb 2026 Cllr Richard Rout · Suffolk County Council, Cllr Struan Mackie · Thurso and Northwest Caithness and Chair of Dounreay Stakeholder Group, David Cunningham, Mark Rouse · Nuclear Sector Skills Team, Sue Ferns · Prospect Trade Union, Zion Lights View ↗
17 Dec 2025 Dr Doug Parr · Greenpeace UK, Professor Fiona Rayment OBE · Dalton Nuclear Institute, previously the Chief Science and Technology Officer at the National Nuclear Laboratory, Professor Stephen Thomas · University of Greenwich, Sam Dumitriu · Britain Remade View ↗