Recommendation 14

An essential requirement will be to resolve of the questions of whether a standardised fleet of nuclear power plants, using serial versions of the same reactor technology, has the potential to benefit the UK as new knowledge and resources can be transferred from one project to the next, reducing the risk of construction and cost overruns. The inevitable objection that such a strategy embeds the risk that operational issues identified with one power plant could affect the entire fleet can be mitigated be using tried and tested underlying technologies and engineering and careful sequencing of any innovation.